If God hates sin, why would he create humans with a propensity to sin?

[LM77 (Liam Maguire)]

@Roger_Dimitrov

It just seems a bit counter intuitive? Why create something you hate more than anything?

This is a great question, Roger. This is where I think Augustine’s view of evil is really helpful. I wrote about this in another thread here:

@LM77

… I would argue that sin and evil are not necessarily created things in the sense that a substance or object can be a created thing. Like a smartphone or a pint of water.

Rather, if one follows Augustine that moral evil is the absence or perversion of good, then we could also say that sin is the absence or perversion of righteousness. Although it is sometimes dodgy to do theology based on the definition of words, this does seem to capture something of the meaning of sin in Hebrew as ‘missing the mark’ or ‘falling short’. As per Romans 3:23 (NLT), “For everyone has sinned; we all fall short of God’s glorious standard.” (emphasis mine)

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