Short answer: because the devil also exists.
Also, your question is based on a false premise to begin with, which is that "God controls everything."
He doesn't. He gave control over the earth to man, and man (or rather woman) f***ed it up in the very first generation.
Now, God will intervene when asked and if it aligns with his will, sure. But that is very different from him exercising dictatorial control over everything.
We have authority over the devil in Christ, but that requires knowing Christ, knowing our identity as Sons of God, and walking in that identity spiritually. Very, very few people on the earth really walk in this the way that we are able to.
We were born into a warzone, essentially. Whether or not we realize it.
I'm not interested in arguing with anyone, either. If you disagree, that's fine. Believe whatever you want.
Why did god create imperfect man and woman? Who’s fault is it if gods creation makes a mistake?
The simple answer as I understand it, is that God created man in his image because he wanted children with who he could have relationship. As such, he created them with free will. He could have created worker drones, basically robots, without free will.
A good analogy is the difference between an actual woman and a sex robot. Let’s say that given enough time, the sex robot is built so well that you really can’t tell the difference between it and a real woman, at least from looks or touch.
For a real woman to love you (or vice versa), REQUIRES free will as a component. Without free will, it’s not love. Rather it’s just a robot (or slave) doing things that you want, just as it’s programmed. Therefore, there is no real relationship.
The way I’ve come to understand it is that when man was first created, he was so much like God that you could look at the man and look at God and not be able to tell who was who. God didn’t want man to get a big head, so he had to put just one thing in the garden that was for him alone: the tree.
Man did not know evil, so he could not even commit evil until eating from that tree.
The knowledge of good and evil is so dangerous that God, in his infinite wisdom and purity, is the only being who can know both but consistently choose good.
So man was perfectly made and perfect until he disobeyed that first time.
And then with that disobedience came the curses of sin and death. Hence, the imperfection that you speak of.
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