God knew from the beginning we were going to need a Savior. Jesus was in the plan from the beginning. God told Adam and Eve that in Genesis when they sinned, that through their bloodline a Messiah will come to save the world.

Jesus' blood covers all our sins. all that is required of us is to truly repent and accept Him as the Son of God and turn from our sinful ways.

we live in a fallen world and God made a way for us to be with Him for eternity. it is our choice. it's not easy, but that is why Jesus had to die the way he did, he took the sin of the world onto Himself so that we would have a way.

God wants true love from us. He could have created robots to do as He says, but He wants us to love Him because He loves us. He even gave the angels free choice knowing full well what was going to happen.

if you have children, don't you want them to love and respect you because they want to, not because you force them too?? Don't you teach them between right and wrong and when they do wrong, don't you scold them, tell them the right way again, but you don't stop loving them because they did wrong. you keep teaching and hope they learn and continue to love you for that.

God created everything.

Are you SURE about that?

Matthew 13:33-42 --

33 Another parable spake he unto them; The kingdom of heaven is like unto leaven, which a woman took, and hid in three measures of meal, till the whole was leavened.

Here, Jesus is speaking to the "multitudes," which means all the people who have gathered, and NOT only His people. He tells them something, using a parable.

34 All these things spake Jesus unto the multitude in parables; and without a parable spake he not unto them:

Jesus never told the full truth to the multitudes. He ONLY spoke the FULL TRUTH to His own people. If you don't understand that, then many passages in the Bible will not make sense to you. They will seem to say something the don't.

35 That it might be fulfilled which was spoken by the prophet, saying, I will open my mouth in parables; I will utter things which have been kept secret from the foundation of the world.

This means that the Old Testament, going back all the way to Genesis, did NOT tell us everything. Jesus came, in part to reveal more information (thus: Revelation, and all the books of the New Testament).

Nobody can understand the OT without also understanding NT, with both in context of each other. This is why both jews and muslims cannot understand the OT.

36 Then Jesus sent the multitude away, and went into the house: and his disciples came unto him, saying, Declare unto us the parable of the tares of the field.

37 He answered and said unto them, He that soweth the good seed is the Son of man;

38 The field is the world; the good seed are the children of the kingdom; but the tares are the children of the wicked one;

39 The enemy that sowed them is the devil; the harvest is the end of the world; and the reapers are the angels.

40 As therefore the tares are gathered and burned in the fire; so shall it be in the end of this world.

41 The Son of man shall send forth his angels, and they shall gather out of his kingdom all things that offend, and them which do iniquity;

42 And shall cast them into a furnace of fire: there shall be wailing and gnashing of teeth.

Go back to Genesis 1 --

12 And the earth brought forth grass, and herb yielding seed after his kind, and the tree yielding fruit, whose seed was in itself, after his kind: and God saw that it was good.

21 And God created great whales, and every living creature that moveth, which the waters brought forth abundantly, after their kind, and every winged fowl after his kind: and God saw that it was good.

25 And God made the beast of the earth after his kind, and cattle after their kind, and every thing that creepeth upon the earth after his kind: and God saw that it was good.

31 And God saw every thing that he had made, and, behold, it was very good. And the evening and the morning were the sixth day.

So, Jesus says that He came to reveal things that had not been revealed in the OT.

In the OT, everything that God made was GOOD.

In the NT, Jesus tells that everything that God made was good, BUT THEN the Devil (Satan) came along and sowed the BAD seed.

Now, back to the earlier verses in Matthew 13 --

10 And the disciples came, and said unto him, Why speakest thou unto them in parables?

11 He answered and said unto them, Because it is given unto you to know the mysteries of the kingdom of heaven, but to them it is not given.

Jesus spoke the FULL TRUTH to His own people, but to the multitudes He only spoke in parables. He did this because ONLY HIS PEOPLE could/should/would undestand the truth.

24 Another parable put he forth unto them, saying, The kingdom of heaven is likened unto a man which sowed good seed in his field:

25 But while men slept, his enemy came and sowed tares among the wheat, and went his way.

26 But when the blade was sprung up, and brought forth fruit, then appeared the tares also.

27 So the servants of the householder came and said unto him, Sir, didst not thou sow good seed in thy field? from whence then hath it tares?

28 He said unto them, An enemy hath done this. The servants said unto him, Wilt thou then that we go and gather them up?

29 But he said, Nay; lest while ye gather up the tares, ye root up also the wheat with them.

30 Let both grow together until the harvest: and in the time of harvest I will say to the reapers, Gather ye together first the tares, and bind them in bundles to burn them: but gather the wheat into my barn.

So ...

What God created was good, which in the parable is the wheat. But then Satan came along and created the tares. One day, God will separate them, and burn the tares and bring the wheat into the Kingdom of Heaven.

If that is the case, then where did Satan come from and how did he create the tares?

Again, Jesus said that he came to reveal secrets that were kept from the foundation of the world.

Revelation 12:7-12 --

7 And there was war in heaven: Michael and his angels fought against the dragon; and the dragon fought and his angels,

8 And prevailed not; neither was their place found any more in heaven.

9 And the great dragon was cast out, that old serpent, called the Devil, and Satan, which deceiveth the whole world: he was cast out into the earth, and his angels were cast out with him.

10 And I heard a loud voice saying in heaven, Now is come salvation, and strength, and the kingdom of our God, and the power of his Christ: for the accuser of our brethren is cast down, which accused them before our God day and night.

11 And they overcame him by the blood of the Lamb, and by the word of their testimony; and they loved not their lives unto the death.

12 Therefore rejoice, ye heavens, and ye that dwell in them. Woe to the inhabiters of the earth and of the sea! for the devil is come down unto you, having great wrath, because he knoweth that he hath but a short time.

Satan was cast down into the Earth. But he had a short time to do his evil works.

Back to Genesis 5 --

1 This is the book of the generations of Adam.

IOW: This is the family tree of Adam, as in the genetic family tree, with is direct descendants.

You can trace his family tree from Adam down to Noah in this chapter:

Adam >> Seth >> Enos >> Cainan >> Mahalaleel >> Jared >> Enoch >> Methuselah >> Lamech >> Noah

So ... Noah was a great-great-great-great-great-great-great-grandson of Adam.

Direct genetic lineage.

This is why all the "this man begat that son" is found in the Bible. It is a family tree.

But ...

Genesis 6:4 --

4 There were giants in the earth in those days; and also after that, when the sons of God came in unto the daughters of men, and they bare children to them, the same became mighty men which were of old, men of renown.

That is the KJV. But, I believe the meaning of this verse has been corrupted and changed, which makes the TRUE story indecipherable to most Christians. This is one of the BIG reasons that Christians and non-Christians find the Bible confusing.

In the Expanded Bible, we see:

4 The Nephilim [fallen ones; the significance of the name is unclear] were on the earth in those days and also later. That was when the sons of God had sexual relations with [ame in to] the daughters of human beings [man; Hebrew: Adam; 1:27–28]. These women gave birth to children who became famous [men of a name] and were the mighty warriors of long ago. [The Nephilim of Num. 13:31–33, though not related genealogically, were giants, suggesting these pre-flood Nephilim were also.]

The word in Hebrew was Nephilim (our English pronunciation) and it means "fallen ones," not "giants."

These fallen ones are the angels ("messengers") of Satan, which we see in Rev 12:7-12 was kicked out of Heaven, and fell to the Earth.

Putting it all together:

God created everything that was good. But Satan showed up and made things that were evil. Satan's people mixed with some (not all) of God's people.

Jesus came, partly, to tell us this missing piece of the puzzle that was not told (completely) in the OT (it was a secret kept from the foundation).

The wheat and the tares are the good and the bad. At some point, God will separate them and only the wheat will live on.

now reading this in the context from my reply to Honor+Duty, i respond by saying we all are created by the One true God. it's who we decide to worship that makes man different from one another.