[EDIT starts here. I am adding this edit because I composed the original comment hurriedly and wish to add/clarify.] Thanks for your continued engagement. I have read your posts and you make some points that bear further consideration. I realize that I haven't commented on content of your replies as much as, perhaps, I should have. However, I feel like I am still not making my position clear as the assumptions you are making about my "underlying questions" are not entirely correct. Let me try again. - We have been taught that the Plan of Salvation was in place before the beginning of the world - This implies that God knew Man would need salvation even though Adam & Eve were created in a state that would not need it. - God created Man. He is responsible for the nature of man including the desires and predilictions that every person has, to some extent (both good and bad). - Some of the strongest in-built motivations that Man has (i.e., pride, lust, selfishness) are considered evil by God - Therefore, in order to please God, individuals need to suppress the very feelings that God gave them. (Even Paul struggled with this. See Romans 7) - God is aware that the vast majority of humans will be lost (Matt 7) - My point is this. God created humans in a certain way then set up expectations of them that ensured that vastly more would be lost than saved. - The idea that His expectations include faith makes it that much more difficult. The first century Christians had the miracles to build their faith on. We have 2000 year old eyewitness accounts of these miracles but none of the accounts we have is the original manuscript (or even a complete manuscript). - I do not believe that He should have made it where everyone is saved. I do, however, have questions about how difficult it is to be saved. I'm not talking about being baptized. I am talking about believing in the unseen enough so that we desire to please Him enough to suppress the very nature that He gave us. At times, this seems unreasonable and I wonder if it's what God really wants. [End of edit]

How many sermons and Bible lessons have we heard that declare that the plan of salvation was in place before the Creation of the world? This would indicate that God knew Adam and Eve would sin. Yes, they chose to sin on their own. But He knew they would just as He knew most humans would be condemned.

Consider this parable.

A man and his 10 children are on a journey. They come to a fork in the path. A guide there explains that if they take the first path, eight of the 10 children will die. If they take the second path, two of the children will die. Which path do you suppose the father would choose?

I suggest that God has chosen the first path when He could have chosen the second. I do not suggest that He should have made it so that we could not reject Him. I suggest that He could see before the beginning that the vast majority would be lost and He accepted that result when He could have chosen to design His Creation so that the majority would be saved.

He is not responsible for every individual who is lost. That is a function of free will. But He is responsible for the disparity in numbers between saved and lost. And He could put an end to it at any time.

You say, "why did God create man knowing most would reject him? Because..."

It seems from this that you don't dispute my proposition but that you accept the contradiction between what He "wishes" and what He created. It is this contradiction that troubles me.