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Did God intentionally make His law, and His creatures, in such a way that His creatures could never live up to His law? If so, does this make God unloving? We’ll address this in three parts:

1. It is more loving to be allowed to deviate, than disallowed.
   A. “I will make creatures that will always do what I want them to do.”
   B. “I will make creatures that do not have to do what I want them to do.”Is not letter B. the more loving fashion to create?
2. Let us understand sin as any deviation from our design. If we posses free agency, sin therefore exists by virtue of our being able to deviate. It is not a construct God invented in order to hold us guilty of something, but rather a term He uses when referring to that which leads to death. I reflect on one who buys mud tires then after some use begins to complain they are noisy and don’t get rain traction on the highway… well no crap Sherlock..
3. The Law describes our design. It does not institute some new unattainable standard, but rather it makes clear what our design has always been. To use our tire analogy: the Law tells us which style of driving is best for the tires, i.e. that mud tires perform optimally in the mud, rather than the road.
   The mosaic law is provisional. Example: I do not want my child to touch the stove. Why? Because it will burn him. I will tell my child if he touches it, I will spank him. To him, the consequence of touching the stove equals a spanking from dad, while in reality there would be far greater consequence if he should actually touch the stove while its on. I merely created a provisional consequence for actions that would ultimately lead to something worse.

Unless it can be shown that it is unloving for God to have intentionality when He creates, i.e. design, or unloving for Him to create in such a way that His creatures can deviate from His design, then I therefore see no way in which God is culpable for humanities eventual inability to keep the law. It seems to me, in fact, that it really should be of no concern to Him, if or not we now find ourselves unable to conform to our optimal way of living. Yet instead, out of love and at His own expense He steps in, and carves a new way. It seems to me, we have a very loving God.