This is a great one for confusing creationists

me : How does an all knowing PERFECT GOD make a defective person and allow evil?
Theist: God has given us the gift of free will, we are created perfect but can choose to do evil?
Me : which makes us imperfect?
Theist: Of course.
Me : So Someone with evil in their heart is potentially evil and so cannot be perfect correct?
Theist: That's right (smug smile)
Me : Where did Evil come from?
Theist: What?
Me: If everything was created by God and comes from god where did evil come from.
Theist: Tut, evil did not COME from anywhere it is a choice made by people.
Me: So what makes Evil evil?
Theist: If a thing or action goes against god or his teachings it is evil
Me : I see so how did we know?
Theist: What?
Me: how did we know what was against the will of god?
Theist: SIGH it's in the bible
Me: So Adam and Eve had a bible?
Theist: No of course not they talked to god directly and he told them what not to do.
Me: So he explained evil to them?
Theist: Yes
Me: So God is potentially evil then?
Thesit; What?
Me: If he could explain it, he must have been able to understand it, so therefore he was potentially capable of doing it, which means he had evil in his heart and so was potentially evil.
Theist: NO, god is perfect, not evil at all, pure good.
Me: But they broke his rules and he got pissed at them, that's in the bible
Theist: NO, yes, no hang on, that was the devil, in the form of a snake, he tempted them.
Me; Who made the snake?
Theist: God did
Me: And the snake was evil?
Theist: yes
Me: So god made the snake who is the devil who is the epitome of Evil, the personification of evil, but god is totally good?
Theist: erm......
Me: How?
Theist: God works in mysterious ways, god's ways are not our ways, you're reading it out of context, FECK OFF heathen!!

I ask you, how in this day and age do educated, mature adult people still believe this blatant crap!

That's the joke , right ?

It is an incoherent set of beliefs. The simple fact is that most theists don't bother to think it through.

The paternalistic god is really a projection of people's uncomfortable relationships with their own fathers -- which, ironically, is often itself based on fathers trying to emulate the imagined heavenly father and to demand the sort of fealty and unquestioning obedience from their children that this imaginary character supposedly commands from believers via his perfection. It's like the divine right of kings applied to fatherhood. It's fucked up.

Because we created god in our image (less then perfect.)

I think you should be asking that to theists..

The world may (will) never know.