God is not to blame for suffering of any sort.

No-one is forced to use free will, even though it was given us as a gift, we can, and often do capitulate and put our own choices aside in favour of those of others. So free will is an option not something you are forced to use. Why should we not choose to do so for our creator who is infinitely wiser than us? You illustration simply doesn"t work, you are blaming the one giving the gift for it"s abuse by others. Electricity can and does kill if abused. Do you blame the generating company for supplying it, or the one abusing it? Would you want to be nothing but a robot? So you would criticise a parent who allows a child to be put through a painful operation, with a lengthy and painful recovery period just because the end restful means they live much longer, and have a much easier time doing it would you? Because that is what you are saying. God did not give us the cancer, Adam chose to accept it by his actions, and his insistence on doing just what you are doing, blaming God for Eve"s mistake, not accepting his responsibility for not having taught her well enough, or relying on God to sort it out, so if you want to blame someone for what resulted to humans, blame Adam. God warned Adam the result of his abusing free will would be, the same way we warn our children of the fatal consequences of abusing electricity, but we don"t refuse to have it in the house, n fact if it were an option we would insist on having it. The same goes for free will. Even if you didn"t want the electricity would you not just switch it on? Why use free will if you don"t want it? Why should God not have wants? You are not exactly being just in your argumentation there are you? As far as you pets are concerned, if you have any, you are all powerful, you have the power of life or death over them. They cannot eat unless you provide it. All you ask in return is the privilege of watching them enjoy what you give them. Should God be any different? That is all he wants, and what he will achieve. No, not because of a bet. He let it all happen to ensure that it can never happen again, and humanity is subjected to a stream of disrupted peace. Had God gone the other way, the only other way, and wiped out the guilty and started again, what would that have done to stop it happening again? Is fear the only reasonable motivation for doing good? Should not choice come into it? Your argument on this is parallel to that of a child blaming its parents for a long and painful operation, with a long and painful recovery which actually allowed it to walk again properly and pain free, for the rest of its life rather than being confined to a wheelchair. Should the child take your attitude? Or should he or she rather accept the short term pain as a benefit in respect of the long term benefits? Humans are in precisely in the same position, except the comparison of the ratio of the suffering of the child compared to the benefits of the operation are very different to the ratio of 70 years of suffering compared to an eternity of peace and health reveals that the benefits of the operation are far less, infinitely less in fact, than the benefits of enduring this current life. Life is, and always will be a cost/benefit analysis. The cost of the child having the operation compared to the benefits it receives, and yet there are very few parents who would not choose the operation rather than the future suffering which would result from not having it. Your option 3) would have resulted in even worse happening than is happening currently because it would have given Satan and those who followed him carte blanche to do whatever they wanted with no opposition or control. The events that led to the flood are witness to that. The wicked angels materialised human bodies and came to earth as bullies and rapists, taking any woman they desired and killing any who stood in their way. The human progeny of such enforced relationships were known as "fellers" because of their equally murderous behaviour, Is that an attractive alternative to you? To God it wasn"t an alternative even worthy of considering. Would you suggest to the parents in my illustration above that they should simply do nothing and allow the child to suffer for the rest of its life? That is "option 3" in that case. In fact he has, so far, been more successful than God, because humans have chosen to take an attitude like the one you display here. Satan has won many battles, but not all, and he will not win the war, because God will make sure that those who have stayed faithful no matter what will reap the benefits of doing so, whereas those who have chosen, out of ignorance, to take Satan"s side, will get a second chance to prove faithful themselves, this time in human perfection, and without the interference. God did not give Satan completely unfettered opportunity to do as he wanted. Had he done so, any who stood up to Satan would have perished there and then, just like those who tried to stand up to the "Fellers" pre flood. Eventually those that remained would have destroyed themselves. No one of the first things God did, post flood, was remove the ability of unfaithful spirits to materialise human bodies, hence now the "best" they can do is find a willing, or unwitting victim to "possess" and enjoy their thrills vicariously. It says nothing, negative or positive, for God"s planning skills. It says much more for the inclination of the heart of imperfect man, which is, as scripture tells us, at Genesis 8: 21 And Jehovah began to smell a restful odor, and so Jehovah said in his heart, "Never again shall I call down evil upon the ground on man"s account, because the inclination of the heart of man is bad from his youth up; and never again shall I deal every living thing a blow just as I have done". The important thing is that, despite Satan"s influence, some imperfect humans have at least tried to do what is right by God and their fellow man, and the success of God"s son, when inhabiting a perfect human body on earth, was a major and most important defeat for Satan and his followers. Form that moment on, Satan"s days were numbered, and it was "only" left for the gathering of those special "few", in relative terms, who would qualify to serve alongside God"s son as kings and priests in heaven Because of Satan"s continued interference, both on earth and in heaven, that has taken over 1800 years so far, and is either complete, now, or nearly so, and only the gathering of those humans who qualify to survive Armageddon and have the role that was entrusted to Adam and Eve, and establish the earth in the form it should have been, as well as training, not their children this time, but the resurrected ones in doing the same, before they, and their work with the resurrected ones are given one brief but final test, and for those who survive it, the war will be over forever, and they will share in God"s victory, which was guaranteed by Christ faithful death as human. The prophecies that cover this are Isaiah 65, and Revelation (most of it) along with all the prophecies that Revelation brings together in one place, including Daniel 2, Daniel 4, as well as some in Ezekiel, and in fact the first 3 chapters of Genesis, which details the original plan, and the last 3 chapters of Revelation which describe the results of everything being "back on plan", including the destruction of Satan, all his followers, human and spirit, as well as the removal of death as we know it.