God cannot lie or change his mind. God knows from the beginning what choices we will make and how the consequences of those choices will fit into His will. Because God is above time, existing simultaneously throughout it, his thoughts are unified and his will is forever one, from the beginning God knew both every choice that would be made by every person who would ever live and the manner in which those choices and their consequences would be fit into his own will. Yet the scriptures are also clear that God gave men freedom to choose their own course and even to choose sin and destruction. God never predestines or foreordains evil.
Sinful men create the evil in the world.
He is always good and ordains only good for us. However, these seemingly contradictory lines of scripture may be reconciled without asserting that God makes us sin if it is observed that none of the passages which directly discuss God's predetermination of events on their faces assert that God foreordains sin or evil. Rather, as will be discussed at more length in a later chapter, God is said to foreordain or predestine good things. For instance, God is said to predestine his elect to be conformed to the image of his Son. Further, he chose us and predestined us to adoption as sons and to be holy and blameless before him, to the praise of his glory.