Originally posted by Jury
Part of the newlywed couple's [b]plan is to create family. It starts with both of them. Then, raising kids. Of course, parents don't intend to create disobedient kids. This couple, nevertheless, knew that by raising kids, there will be times they would disobey. But why do you think they'd still want to raise kids? [/B]
I think there might be a tiny bit of difference between a a couple having kids and hoping they will be good (but knowing there will be times they wont clean their room) and God creating someone who would betray him and go on to become the embodiment of evil and corruption and play a major part in the fall and do his best to lead God's children (who he apparently loves above all else) to eternal damnation, and knowing that would happen.
I wonder what would happen if the newlywed couple in your hypothetical were told "If you sleep together on the 24th of June two years from now you will conceive a child who will grow up to be his generations Hitler and Stalin combined. And whether you sleep together or not on that night you will still go on to have many more children in the years to come."
Hmmm. Might they possibly abstain from intercourse on that night? Or would they say "Well, it doesn't matter, even though we know *exactly* what happens our intentions are good, and as they say, you have to take the good with the bad, even though that bad is unimaginable horror."