flawed design?

i went to bed at 2 in the morning and so far i'm batting a solid 0 for 180 in the minutes that i have been trying to sleep, i'm actually more awake now than when i went to bed 3 hours ago, and i have to leave in 3 hours to pick someone up from the airport, so i've decided to just skip the whole sleep thing for tonight. so here i am. while i was exhausting myself to relax and go to sleep, i was thinking about some stuff. i'ma try to lay it out a little bit. (pause for laughter at the show scrubs here....k let's move on

was man set up to fail from the get go? being given free will, i'm not sure that man could have not sinned. it seems that all eve needed was a little temptation from the snake and it was over. i can't help but think that god surely must have known that humans would fail to keep his command forever, he created us after all...who could know us any better than him. but if this is so, then why would god put man in a situation where he likely knew he would fail? it's like God said "i'm gonna make this guy who i know will sin, but i'll try to help him avoid it as long as possible...i'll put him in this righteous garden full of everything good, i won't fill him in on good and evil so he won't really know what's what, and i'll give him one simple command to obey, let's see how long this takes..." so much is made of how mankind is "fallen" since the original sin of adam and eve, but did we really stand a chance? i submit that we may not have! or we may have...i'm not really sure to be honest.

the point of all this is just to look at things from a bit of a different perspective... what kind of personal relationship is it if you're not trying to know and understand the other person just a little more all the time, and that's what i want my relationship with god to look like. this is something i had never really thought about before, but as i lay sleepless in bed tonight it oocured to me that though we are created in god's image, does that mean we are created perfectly? or are we created perfectly as in god created man exactly the way he wanted him "flaws" and all? but why would god create man to be in relationship with him, knowing that man would screw it up, and quickly. i haven't made much of it for myself yet and this is just a little prologue that has stirred up more thoughts that have yet to fully sort themselves out and i think are much harder to understand in my own mind so far, but don't even worry about it, i'll get there.


now for those of you who have been waiting endlessly and for some really hard to understand reason for me to blog again...i hope you're happy. and i think you can expect a couple more to follow in the very near future(as in maybe later today) while i'm trying to work this stuff out, but then it'll probably be another year or so before i blog again, so i wouldn't get too excited about it.