God created mankind with the capacity for free choice. He did not want a race of robots who would say “Yes God, I love you and will always obey you.” Creatures like that would not really be human, just pre-programmed animals.
You could say that He was prepared to take the risk of His creatures turning their backs on Him. In ways mysterious to us, He knows everything before it happens. He is not inside Time as we are, but sees all things from the view of eternity. Certainly He thought it worth the risk. And the pain – He is not distant from the suffering mankind brought upon itself; He dived to the very bottom of that pit when Jesus died on the cross.
A key here is the most famous verse in the Bible “God loved the people of this world so much that he gave his only Son (Jesus), so that everyone who has faith in him will have eternal life and never really die.” John’s gospel, chapter 3, verse 16 CEV
C.S. Lewis, in his novel “The Great Divorce”, puts it this way: ‘There are only two kinds of people in the end: those who say to God, “Thy will be done,” and those to whom God says, in the end, “Thy will be done.”‘
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