God created humans basically evil (All animals are basically evil, so if octopuses or squids became the new rulers of our planet if humans are wiped out in nuclear holocaust or due to universal death due to a contagious, superbug, they would then have free will and would have to curb and sublimate their wicked natures too.) because it was necessary to do so.
God creates free-willed species, but, if they were not born mostly evil, then their free willing struggle to become good and worship God would not be a real test.
If humans were born neutral or basically good, then their free will would not be authentic or actual, because there was really no struggle, no literal fight to will to be free and good. If born neutral or basically good, humans would just easily will to be good, because that is what they actually were anyway, so the moral struggle would not be real, and the choosing would be not real—they would be choosing to be good because that is what they already were all along.
My empirical evidence that we are born sinners is that there is so much obvious, omnipresent violence, corruption, war, injustice, malevolence, and needless, pointless suffering in the world. If we were born good, that would not be so universal, so eagerly resorted to by billions and billions of people generation after generation, for thousands of years.
It is laughable that Rousseau saw people as born good but corrupted by society. That does not account for the human craving to be evil, to hurt others, and being addicted to being hurt by others. Humans have a bottomless attraction to and fondness for wallowing in such moral cesspits.
In summary, God made us sinners so that our free-willing journey along the road to becoming a mature adult of goodness, virtue and piety, would be a hard, occurring ontological struggle and main event in each human’s life.
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