why do people act like god is so good when hes the one who created evil and hate and pain?

Answer 1

Because they consider themselves as the self styled God given gifts to the community.

Answer 2

Well, Satan is His buddy. He let Satan destroy His favorite person, Job, just to see how Job would react. He could obliterate Satan from reality, but does He? He really does like Satan more than He likes us. What's that say about God? Isn't' God the one who is going to torture a majority of the souls on the planet after he destroys Earth? You know, being a Creator Deity can make the most ethical person become something of an evil tyrant. Ever play Sim-City, or any other game where you create a city, country, or anything? Doesn't there come a time when you get bored and decide to make earthquakes, or fires, or floods and stuff? Perhaps when Satan talked 1/3 of the Heavenly Host into rebelling with him, he had a justifiable point. God could be like the Skipper, from Gilligan's Island. How many times would you let Him slap you around with His hat before you start talking to the other cast-aways about regime change? And after the rebellion and the Fall? Does God get rid of Satan? No, He found a new way to torment him. I think a Medieval sect called the Agnostics held this view. I probably got their name wrong.

Answer 3

Did God create Evil?


This will make you think for a while.
At a certain college there was a professor with a reputation for being tough on Christians. At the first class, everysemester, he asked if anyone was a Christian and proceeded to degrade
them and to mock their statement of faith.
One semester, he asked the question and a young man raised his hand.

The professor asked, "Did God make everything young man?"
He replied "Yes sir he did!"
The professor responded,! "IF God made everything, then he made evil"

The student didn't have a response and the professor was happy to once again prove the Christian faith to be a myth.

Then another man raised his hand and asked, "May I ask you something,sir?""Yes, you may," responded the professor.

The young man stood up and said, "Sir, is there such a thing as cold?" Of course there is, what kind of a question is that? Haven't you ever
been cold?"

The young man replied, "Actually, sir, cold doesn't exist. What we consider to be cold, is really an absence of heat. Absolute zero is when there is absolutely no heat, but cold does not really exist. We have only created that term to
describe how we feel when heat is not there.
"
The young man continued, Sir, is there such a thing as dark?" Once again the professor
responded, "Of course there is."And once again, the student replied, "Actually, sir, darkness does not exist. Darkness is really only the
absence of light. Darkness is only a term developed to describe what happens when there is no light present."

Finally, the young man asked, "Sir, is there such a thing as evil?"The professor responded, "Of course, we have rapes, murders and violence everywhere in the world, Those things are evil.
"
The student replied, "Actually, sir, evil does not exist. Evil is simply the absence of God. Evil is a term developed to describe the absence of God.God did not create evil. It isn't like truth, or love which exist as virtues like heat or light. Evil is simply the state
where God is not present, like cold without heat, or darkness without light."

The professor had nothing to say................
Be full of Christ today, there is no room for anything else . .

GOD BLESS.

Answer 4

Isaiah 45:7 -

I form the light, and create darkness: I make peace, and create evil: I the LORD do all these things.

Just for future reference. :) After reading the answers here, perhaps they missed this part?

Other versions vary... this is KJV - the translation that is often considered "best." Perhaps someone that knows Hebrew will be able to assist in the actual translation for the word that is here translated as "evil."

Answer 5

God did not create evil. allthough He did create the creature that created evil. in the very begining there was no evil but when lucifer tried to overthrow Christ then evil was created and lucifer was thrown out of heaven. God is good. and so are people that rape others. they have good in them, but they may not be showing it. God also lets evil exist because 1)there would be no improvment to the value of life in following him and 2) because man was givin free will and how are we allowed to exercise free will under a dictatorship.

Answer 6

Even though God created evil, Hate and pain was due NOT to Him, but because of Adam and Eve's disobedience causing them to die spiritually and eventually to die physically. Check out the punishment they were warned of if they disobeyed God and what they received when they fell from grace in Geneses.

Answer 7

god did not create evil hate and pain!! in the bible it says that god made the world and saw that everything was good!! sin came into the world and caused evil hate and pain.

Answer 8

Humans create Gods in their own images.

Ever notice how God is always condemning those "other people," but rarely, if ever, condemns the person claiming to speak for God?

Amazing how that unchanging, eternal, perfect, never makes a mistake God has such a diversity of contradicting opinions. And he always hates those "other people."

Answer 9

Jaantoo...that was an awesome post...

Jam 1:13 Let no man say when he is tempted, I am tempted of God: for God cannot be tempted with evil, neither tempteth he any man:


(Rom 9:14) What shall we say then? Is there unrighteousness with God? God forbid.
(Rom 9:15) For he saith to Moses, I will have mercy on whom I will have mercy, and I will have compassion on whom I will have compassion.
(Rom 9:16) So then it is not of him that willeth, nor of him that runneth, but of God that showeth mercy.

Answer 10

Mat 15:18 But the things which come out of the mouth come from the heart, and they defile the man.
Mat 15:19 For out of the heart come evil thoughts, murders, adulteries, fornications, thefts, false witness, blasphemies;
Mat 15:20 these are the things which defile a man, but to eat with unwashed hands does not defile a man.

Mar 7:20 And He said, That which comes out of the man is what defiles the man.
Mar 7:21 For from within, out of the heart of men, proceed evil thoughts, adulteries, fornications, murders,
Mar 7:22 thefts, covetousness, wickedness, deceit, lasciviousness, an evil eye, blasphemy, pride, foolishness:
Mar 7:23 All these evil things pass out from inside and defile the man.

1Th 5:22 Abstain from every appearance of evil.


1Pe 3:8 And finally, all be of one mind, having compassion on one another, loving the brothers, tenderhearted, friendly.
1Pe 3:9 Never give back evil for evil, or reviling for reviling, but on the contrary, giving blessing, knowing that you are called to this so that you might inherit blessing.
1Pe 3:10 For he that wants to love life and to see good days, let him restrain his tongue from evil, and his lips from speaking guile.
1Pe 3:11 Let him turn aside from evil and do good. Let him seek peace and pursue it.
1Pe 3:12 For the eyes of the Lord are on the righteous, and His ears open to their prayers. But the Lord's face is against those who do evil.
1Pe 3:13 And who is the one who will harm you if you become imitators of the good?
1Pe 3:14 But if you also suffer for righteousness' sake, you are blessed. And do not fear their fear, nor be troubled,
1Pe 3:15 but sanctify the Lord God in your hearts, and be ready always to give an answer to everyone who asks you a reason of the hope in you, with meekness and fear;
1Pe 3:16 having a good conscience, that while they speak against you as evildoers they may be shamed, those falsely accusing your good behavior in Christ.
1Pe 3:17 For it is better, if the will of God wills it, to suffer for well-doing than for evil-doing.
1Pe 3:18 For Christ also once suffered for sins, the just for the unjust, that He might bring us to God, indeed being put to death in the flesh, but made alive in the Spirit;