God is uncreated, eternal. He created us to fellowship with us, to share his glory with us, to love us. Not because he needed to, but because he wanted to. He gave us free will so that we could choose to love him. I believe that the creation account in Genesis is written poetically while still conveying literal truth. God created the universe and the earth. The first forms of life were plants and then water creatures, then land animals, and finally he created man out of the dust of the earth. He breathed life into him and he became a living soul.

Yet you speak of this free will and through observations of my own when ever religious debates are in full swing, people always play the free will card, why is that? Why would god grant us free will? Why would it dispose of this information to go against it? God is only granted power through its followers so would it not be of the best interests of God to have as many as it could? God may be the living soul through us yet it sees about the destruction of the earth, it sees about this free will when innocent people are slaughtered throughout the world, a world that God governs and yet it still watches as a child is killed and yet a convicted murderer is still spared? Why is that?

I'm not God, I couldn't tell you exactly. But, being all knowing, this is the system God created to get the most amount of people to heaven by their own choice. We aren't really in a position to say that he could've done it another way, unless we can show that another way would've yielded better results.