Is God the creator of Evil?

Question

If yes, then why?

Answer 1

No man is.

Answer 2

Yup! And he admits to it. God is responsible for just about as many evil things as he is good ones.

Lam 3:38/ Jer 18:11/ Is 45:7/ Amos 3:6/ Ezek 20:25

After you read these, read Num 31 where God helps the Jews kill every man, burn every building, and all the livestock belonging to the Midianites. After a long couple of days of murder and pillaging, the men return, and Moses has a hissy fit because they spared the women and children.

The just and righteous Moses then tells them to kill the male children and any women who have slept with a man. Then he tells them to keep the virgins for themselves. Clearly, these women were raped.

There's are similar tales in Judges 20, and Deuteronomy 21.

Deuteronomy 21:10-14 are probably the most evil verses in the Bible. Not only does God approve of rape, he supplies the victims!

Here's the kicker: Deut 22:23-24, and 22:28-29 have Gods "rape laws" They're worth a read. If you still don't think God creates evil, read these verses. Depending on where a woman gets raped, afterwards she either has to marry her attacker, or be stoned to death. What kind of sick crap is that?

God is the creator of evil without a doubt.

-SD-

Answer 3

The answer to this question could greatly vary do to personal beliefs and religion, but I shall attempt to answer in the most rudimentary form possible. The question is, if God created everything, did he create evil? Most churches and people would say no, because God is perfect, and him being evil is impossible. The view I find the most likely, is that evil is the void created when someone (be it angel, spirit, or human) when they reject God and do not follow him. The catechism of the catholic church, in particular, has this to say about evil: "The fact that God permits physical and even moral evil is a mystery that God illuminates by his Son Jesus Christ who died and rose to vanquish evil. Faith gives us the certainty that God would not permit an evil if he did not cause a good to come from that very evil, by ways that we shall fully know only in eternal life."

Answer 4

Hard question. I guess He did.

See, He created Satan (who was an Angel at first but became too full of himself so God kicked him out of Heaven and put him in the depths of the Earth.) Satan, then, becomes our "Accuser". He tempts us and then goes to God and shows Him how imperfect we really are. (Read: The Book of Job, in the Bible.)

Other times in the Bible, God does admit to having CREATED Evil. He also does help the Jews destroy entire cities and populations, He helps them enslave others!

He also created man but gave man "free will". However, He also gave man a set of commandments which we choose (we do have free will) to break.

If you take the Bible literally and interpret God as Creator to have created Heaven, Earth and all the beings therein then God did create Evil.

Answer 5

As there is no god, how can he/she be the creator of anything. Man is the originator of all good and evil. I wish people would stop trying to blame some imaginary thing for all the bad things that happen.

Answer 6

I heard a very interesting homily on the subject. The preacher said that evil does not come from God but is the absence of God. He attributed the thought to Albert Einstein.

Answer 7

God did not create evil, God created only the knowledge of evil. Evil was first perceived by God, conceived by Lucifer and received by Adam, who empowered evil by the sin of disobedience to God.

God spoke light into existence and in so doing, indirectly caused darkness to exist also (Gen 1:3). But God only created the knowledge of good when He “saw” or perceived that light was good (Gen 1:4) and similarly, having seen light was good, so created the knowledge of evil because a thing can only be known as good if there is also a knowledge of evil.

But God intended that Adam would be protected from the knowledge of good and evil by encapsulating them in the fruit of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil and forbidding Adam to eat of it.

Answer 8

Did God Create Evil?

The university professor challenged his students with this question:

"Did God create everything that exists? "

A student bravely replied "Yes, he did!"

"God created everything?" the professor asked.

"Yes sir," the student replied.

The professor answered, "If God created everything, then God created evil since evil exists, and according to the principal that our works define who we are, then God is evil."

The professor was quite pleased with himself and boasted to the students that he had proven once more that the Christian faith was a myth.

Another student raised his hand and said, "Can I ask you a question professor?"

"Of course," replied the professor.

The student stood up and asked, "Professor , does cold exist?"

The professor replied "Of course it exists. Have you never been cold?"

The students snickered at the young man's question.

The young man replied, "In fact sir, cold does not exist. According to the laws of physics, what we consider cold is in reality the absence of heat.

Everybody or object is susceptible to study when it has or transmits energy, and heat is what makes a body, or matter, have or ransmit nergy. Absolute zero (- 460 degrees F) is the total absence of heat. Cold does not exist. We have created this word to describe how we feel if we have no heat

The student continued. "Professor, does darkness exist?"

The professor responded, "Of course it does."

The student replied, "Once again you are wrong sir. Darkness does not exist either. Darkness is in reality the absence of light. Light, we can study, but not darkness. In fact we can use Newton's prism to break white light into many colors and study the various wavelengths of each color. You cannot measure darkness. A simple ray of light can break into a world of darkness and illuminate it. How can you know how dark a certain space is? You measure the amount of light present. Isn't this correct? Darkness is a term used by man to describe what happens when there is no light present."

Finally the young man asked the professor. "Sir, does evil exist?"

Now uncertain, the professor responded, "Of course , as I have already said. We see it every day. It is in the daily example of man's inhumanity to man. It is in the multitude of crime and everywhere in the world. These manifestations are nothing else but evil."

To this the student replied, "Evil does not exist sir, or at least it does not exist unto itself. Evil is simply the absence of God. It is just like darkness and cold, a word that man has created to describe the absence of God.

God did not create evil. Evil is the result of what happens when man does not have God's love present in his heart. It's like the cold that comes when there is no heat or the darkness that comes when there is no light."

The professor sat down.

The young man's name --- Albert Einstein

Answer 9

yes gods is the creator of evil,because good and evil should be balanced

Answer 10

No, evil started when the Devil, who was the head angel in heaven, decided that he wanted to be higher than God. Evil started with him, not with God.

Answer 11

Evil hides within the confines of God. I have found some of the evilest people in the churches.

God is Love