God's Omnisience and Omnipotence

The following was posted on a young man's Facebook page in answer to the question concerning God's omniscience and omnipotence.

I do not know what happened to my first answer, but here is my attempt to rewrite it. I will post this on my blog at: http://www.rabswritings.blogspot.com/. I have other articles, last Sunday’s sermon and this next Sunday’s sermon which address this issue as well. I pray this helps.

In the beginning God created everything perfect, including angels. One angel in particular, Lucifer (Satan), rebelled against God, thinking himself equal with God. God cast him out of heaven and actually, hell was originally created for Satan. Because of his hatred toward God, Satan tempted Eve and Adam to disobey God. Their disobedience was the first sin which resulted in punishment, their punishment and a curse on the whole of God’s creation. Until this time Adam and Eve only knew good, which I believe is why they fell for Satan’s lies, because they did not know what a lie was, but after eating the fruit of the “Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil,” (not an apple tree), now they knew evil as well as good. Sin also brought the tainting of human will so that now our will, tainted by sin, is only to evil all the time (Gen. 6:5). God stepped in immediately and promised to take care of the curse and punishment inflicted on Adam and Eve, that is the eternal, spiritual punishment of hell. Jesus was born, truly God, which He had to be to be born in perfection, and truly human, born of the human woman, Mary, which He had to be to be our substitute. Jesus traded His perfect life for ours. Remember, perfection is what God demands (Matt. 5:48). Jesus lived in perfection for us, trading our sins for His imperfection. Jesus paid the price for our sin, and gave us His righteousness. Interestingly enough, even though God knew what was going to happen, that humanity would sin, that He would have to suffer and die, because of His great love for us, He created us anyway, to love us. So, as Jesus sort of explains in His parable of the Weeds (Matt. 13:24-30) we will live in a non-perfect world until He returns. The question is often asked, “Why do bad things happen to good people?” I believe the question is backwards and should read, “Why do good things happen to sinful people?” And the reason is because God loves us so much that He works best out for us in any given situation.