If god is all-good, why are you kidding me?

Question

Travelbaby, who created evil with free-will? Sure god could do anything means he could have created free-will without evil... way too easy for your imaginary god, I guess.

Answer 1

Which God??? There is so many. The universe have certain laws that no matter what you do, you have to deal with them. Evil??? What is this? it is so hard to explain evil, because it is not black on white, every person has another "thing" they believe is evil. To me, evil is something in your heart that is impure, something that you do to hurt another creature of the universe for no reason but your own selfish satisfaction. The universe is neither good or evil, it just "is". The universe has certain laws and no matter how angry or upset you get over them they won't go away, so it is better to try and understand them. There is a certain order in everything in the universe, "chaos" is order we don't yet understand.

Answer 2

Who said God is "all-good"? I'm sure those who are cast into hell are not going to consider Him "all-good". That is why so many are deceived today because they think God is will just forgive them for anything they do because He is just a Good Guy. The truth is God is a God of many characteristics and all His character qualities are in balance. His dominate character quality, if there is one, is His holiness. His holiness demand justice and righteousness and brings about judgment and wrath. Read Hebrews 10 if you think that God is just a big marshmellow.

Heb 10:26 For if we go on sinning willfully after receiving the knowledge of the truth, there no longer remains a sacrifice for sins, 27 but a terrifying expectation of judgment and THE FURY OF A FIRE WHICH WILL CONSUME THE ADVERSARIES. 28 Anyone who has set aside the Law of Moses dies without mercy on the testimony of two or three witnesses. 29 How much severer punishment do you think he will deserve who has trampled under foot the Son of God, and has regarded as unclean the blood of the covenant by which he was sanctified, and has insulted the Spirit of grace? 30 For we know Him who said, "VENGEANCE IS MINE, I WILL REPAY." And again, "THE LORD WILL JUDGE HIS PEOPLE." 31 It is a terrifying thing to fall into the hands of the living God. "

Answer 3

Isaiah 45:7 -

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

Even the Bible agrees with you on your added details. This was really the biggest issue I had with the Bible and was one of my major reasons for leaving Christianity. I don't know what I believe, but I know that I DON'T believe that God would kill babies and children or allow ANYONE to be tortured for eternity.

Answer 4

Because God does not come between me and what i do.
People may wonder why, if God exists, He doesn’t wave a magic wand and fix things, making or at least influencing everyone so that they do exactly what they ‘should’ do. But God never takes away anyone’s freedom of choice. God’s wisdom is to recognize and respect each soul’s individual identity, freedom and inherent goodness. God shares knowledge – a profound understanding of the dualities and dilemmas of love and hatred, happiness and sorrow, victory and defeat, etc. – but He does not make our choices for us. The soul is free to choose ‘to be or not to be’, ‘to love or not to love’. God’s love strengthens the soul’s will to free itself from the distresses caused by vices such as selfish desire, anger, fear, ego and attachment. God’s power helps the soul to recognize its highest potential and to aim for perfection by practising the art of simple living and high thinking. Such practice by a significant number of souls eventually brings about positive change in the whole of humanity.
When you learn to tune your mind in meditation to the mind of God, then whatever the situation, you always have a source of help and strength to draw upon – an infinite reservoir of power and virtues that is only a thought away

Answer 5

To argue within this framework. Free will implies choice. A choice between 'good' and 'good' (as disembodied concepts) is no choice at all. One has to have a choice between 'good' and 'less good' or 'good' and 'evil'. Therefore the existence of evil is a necessary by-product of free will.

God is only 'good' in the sense that humans perceive Him as good. God is simply God (by whatever name you call him - I believe that the Arabic 'Allah' simply means 'The One').

The theory of free will is that God created us in His own image such that He wanted us to choose His way. (I don't subscribe to exactly that view, but that is how it's expressed by many believers). It follows, then that God created the concept of evil, he gave us sunshine and shadow, light and dark.

Answer 6

its simple, when god created us, he also gave us free will, so look around, its not god who is evil, its most of human race, abusing, raping, killing, human trafficking, molesting, suicide. its us who need help, thank god for Jesus.

Answer 7

coz i'm, an a$$hole and i do stand up comedy

Answer 8

If God is all knowing and all loving, why did He create Satan and allow evil in the world? A good question, to be sure. One that I’m not sure we can ever fully understand, not being omniscient ourselves. While I do believe that a large part of the answer lies in the fact that God decided to give us (i.e. men and angels) freedom of choice, I also believe that is used by most Christians as a pat answer to avoid the discussion (and personal contemplation) in the first place. To examine this question fully we must try to get a handle on many difficult concepts: freedom of choice, the nature of God, the nature of love, the nature of omniscience, and the nature of evil being the primary concerns. None of these are easy topics, and many of them will have to be looked at simultaneously.

One of the first questions I believe we need to ask is this: Why did God create us in the first place? The answer lies in what He calls us… His children. Why does any parent want to have children? While there may be a few who will answer that they want an heir to their estate or kingdom, and others who might answer that it is their way to immortality, I believe almost everyone would admit that the reason they want to have children is they want to have a child to love, and to be loved by that child. It is no different with God. He wants to (and does) love us. He wants to be loved by us. He wants all the joys of parenthood. With this understood, we now can explore the idea of freedom of choice.

Giving freedom of choice comes both from the desire to love, and to be loved. Let’s look at a couple of examples we can relate to. If someone is trying to completely control his or her spouse or significant other, the relationship is almost always a bad one. No one likes to be controlled. A husband who tells his wife what friends she can or cannot have, when she can go out of the house, when to have dinner on the table, etc., is usually described as abusive. Not always physically, but that often goes hand in hand. Giving someone freedom of choice is also giving them trust and respect. Love cannot exist without it.

I think it is even easier to see the necessity of freedom of choice when we look at the desire to be loved. God is described as a Father, so I am going to explore this aspect by looking at fathers. A father could make his six year old daughter climb into his lap every night and say, “I love you, daddy,” right before going to bed. He could, but I don’t believe most fathers would want to. While most fathers would want very much for their six year old daughter to do just that, if it was forced, it would not mean anything. A father wants his daughter to climb into his lap and say, “I love you,” out of her heart, not out of command. God wants the same thing. Yes, He could have decided not to give us any freedom of choice, but He created us because He wanted to be loved by us. If we did not have freedom of choice, than we could not truly love. Love must be a choice.

Now that we have touched on the nature of love and freedom of choice, I believe it would be good to look at the nature of God. We will also discover much about the nature of evil while examining this topic. While God is called the creator of all, there is one thing that God did not create: evil. God did create Satan, the author of evil, but God did not create evil. Evil is the absence of God. This is why God is described as light, and evil as darkness. Darkness only exists where light does not. They are not true opposites. The only way to have darkness is to block out all light. There is no such thing as a “darkbulb” or “flashdark.” Only light can be created. God is also described as a consuming fire. I like to take these two concepts together and liken God to our sun. If you get too close to the sun you burn up; you become part of it. This is why in the Old Testament it is stated that if you see God’s face you will die. You would be consumed. When Moses was allowed to see God in His Glory from the backside, his face shinned too bright to look at for days. When God created Adam, Adam was created in the image of God. He was, in essence, like God. He could be next to the sun without being consumed, for his nature was the same. When Adam sinned, he added to humanity their fleshly nature; we were now no longer like God. We could not be in His presence without being consumed by Him any longer. God created us, like Him, eternal. If God was to “consume” us in our sinful state, we would not be able to be in His presence, so we would be in a place completely devoid of God. This place is usually called hell. Yet God, being compassionate, allowed us to dwell on Earth in a different state. Both evil and divine, He gave us a way back to Him. Rather than eternity of complete despair, He gave this world to Satan, only to conquer it in Christ. He made it so that His children’s despair need only be temporary, and with the simultaneous chance for joy. He gave us hope. The reason that we live in a world with so much pain (and joy) is in fact, because of God’s mercy, not despite it.

The final question we need to address is the omniscience of God. This is certainly the most difficult topic of all to deal with concerning this topic. Why would God create the angel Satan if He KNEW Satan would fall? Why not create a man more like Jesus in the first place, rather than Adam, who God KNEW would eat the forbidden fruit? While this is a very difficult answer to swallow, the answer is because God is just and fair. God does not prejudge based on foreknowledge. This is almost impossible to understand, but I want to leave you with a couple of thoughts concerning this. Do you believe it would have been right to kill a nine-year-old boy named Adolph Hitler, if you knew who he would become? I personally believe it would have been very wrong. Do you believe it would have been right to sterilize his mother before his birth? Again, I believe that would have been wrong. We have enough problems figuring out ethics than trying to determine what is right or wrong if you know the future. However, this is not the final thought I want to leave you with on this subject…

God created man because he wanted to be a parent (at least in part). We criticize Him, however, because of the evil in the world. How could God have created man knowing what we would do to ourselves? Why did God create man, knowing he would sin, and have to suffer? Isn’t that hypocritical? Anyone who has ever willfully brought a child into this world (or is planning on doing so) should be judged just as harshly. Sure, we may not know the EXACT sorrows and despairs our child is going to have, but we know there is going to be skinned knees, broken bones, broken hearts, the death of loved ones, and other tragedy in that child’s life. Either that or they are going to die very early. How can we justify bringing children into this world, knowing that this world is so full of evil? We feel angry with God, because we feel he can do something. He is all-powerful, after all. But we can do something, too; we can choose not to bring another life into this world. Yet we choose to have children, because we hope and believe we can fill their lives with more joy than sorrow. God KNOWS He can fill your life with more joy than sorrow. He can do something about the evil in the world, and in fact, He already has.