Is GOD evil?

Question

If god created man in his own image, then we must assume 2 things. 1) god is good 2) god is evil. Man is both good and evil and becasue god created man in his own image, god is good and evil. Don't forget what it says in Genesis about god flooding the earth. He murdered everyone on the planet excepth NOAH. That sounds pretty evil to me. How bout you?

I am just asking a question, not mocking. How do you justify god killing off an enitre planet of people and not call him evil?

I am just asking a question, not mocking. How do you justify god killing off an enitre planet of people and not call him evil?

Answer 1

Sin is not action, but intent. Is it a sin to kill an enemy soldier? Perhaps we should ask more or less, was it a greater sin to let evil live and corrupt good than to kill both good and evil? Now as an atheist, I've actually taken (suprisingly) God's side in this issue. I doubt he's omnipotent, or else he could have just snapped his fingers and poof, all the bad people were dead. He did all he could, it must have been a hard decission on his part.

Answer 2

When a person dies of old age God still took his breath so is that murder? God created the rules and that's the way he designed life. If God requires your life tonight or tomorrow night, it is well within his right to take it. You are his property, down to the last electron.

God is also just, and justice requires punishment for sin. Like it or not, those are the rules wether we are talking about God or man's government.

Jesus paid the price of your people's sins but if men dont accept His payment they have to pay for their own actions.

Answer 3

Your assumptions are incorrect. God is good. He is nothing but good. He is the source of all goodness, righteousness, and truth.

Satan defied God, thinking he was as powerful as God, and this is what brought about evil. God defeated satan in that battle, banishing him to a place God created just for satan and his followers, hell.

Once man defied God, disobeying His commands, we became capable of knowing both good and evil.

Your use of Genesis as a source for this argument is incorrect, also. Yes, God destroyed the earth with a flood. He did not destroy everyone but noah. He destroyed everyone but Noah and his family. Get the facts straight. It was not out of evil that God acted, but out of love. He could have destroyed all of mankind, never giving us another chance to correct our mistake of defying Him. Yet, He loved His crowning creation, mankind, so much that He only destroyed all of the evil people, saving the good people to regenerate the earth.

He also loves us so much that in order to rectify our error in judgement, He being the Only One Who has the power to correct the mistake mankind had made, prepared an elaborate plan, including becoming man Himself, and taking all of the evil upon Himself, depositing it in hell, and freeing us to have a god life, if we choose to do so.

He gave us a free will when He created us, and has to allow us to choose between good or evil. That choice will determine where we spend eternity..

Answer 4

You cannot be all powerful by doing good only.

How can Satan called the Evil one when God is the only one doing or authorizing all slaughter on Earth?

If killing is Evil, well yes, God is Evil. Sometime he might repented of the evil (Exodus 32:14), but some other time he just do his evil.

Answer 5

God hates evil, that is why he sent the flood, because man had become so evil. But he did send them a warning! God created man in His image, but then man rebelled, and became sinful. God is Holy, perfect and righteous.

Answer 6

Everything is this world is a dichotemy. For every up there is down, for every on, there is off. For every dark there is light. God however can not be divided. God is like silence, if you take silence and cut it in half, you just have more silence. So God is all encompassing, which makes him good and bad.

Answer 7

Is snow yellow?

Study to show thyself approved.

Noah’s deluge. To understand you have to start with Gen.6:1.
Gen.6:1 And it came to pass, when men began to multiply on the face of the earth, and daughters were born unto them,
The word “men” is Heb. (ha-adham) means “the man Adam” or his progeny. The word “them” is referring to Adam and Eve. The scripture is talking about Adam and Eve’s clan and not mankind. Mankind a subject for another time.
Gen.6:2 That the sons of God saw the daughters of men that they were fair; and they took them wives of all which they chose.
The term “sons of God” means angels or fallen angels. The word “men” again means Adam and Eve’s progeny or clan. Satan was trying to corrupt God’s plan. That is, from umbilical cord to umbilical cord would come Christ. This is why Eve is called “the mother of all living”.
Gen.6:9 These are the generations of Noah: Noah was a just man and perfect in his generations, and Noah walked with God.
The word “perfect” Heb. (tamin) means “without blemish as to breed or pedigree”.
Gen.6:17 And, behold, I, even I, do bring a flood of waters upon the earth, to destroy all flesh, wherein is the breath of life, from under heaven; and every thing that is in the earth shall die.
The word “earth” Heb. (erets) means “land”, not the whole earth. Besides God says, “to destroy all flesh” in Adam’s clan.
Gen.7:24 And the waters prevailed upon the earth an hundred and fifty days.
Gen.8:11 And the dove came in to him in the evening; and, lo, in her mouth was an olive leaf pluckt off: so Noah knew that the waters were abated from off the earth.
If the entire globe had been under water 150 days, where did this olive leaf (pluckt off) come from.
Gen 9:11 And I will establish my covenant with you; neither shall all flesh be cut off any more by the waters of a flood; neither shall there any more be a flood to destroy the earth.
Remember what God said in Gen.6:17, “to destroy all flesh”. Here God makes a covenant with Noah and his sons. Neither shall all flesh be cut off any more. Neither shall there any more be a flood to destroy the earth. Two floods. One for flesh, Noah’s deluge. One to destroy the earth back in Gen.1:2. The global flood is a subject for another time.
Some consider the plateau of Pamir to be the original Eden. This probably was the homeland of Adam's descendants up until the time of the Flood. Today it’s known as the Tarim Basin or Eastern Turkestan. This region is surrounded by a ridge of very high mountains forming a gigantic basin in the midst of them. It measures 1,000 miles long and is about 350 miles wide.
Ussher’s Chronology says 2348 B.C., Davidson says November 2345 B.C. to November 2344 B.C. for Noah’s deluge.
Records of the Sumerians in Mesopotamia., their King Lists date to about 3350 B.C., and show an ongoing civilization well through the period of the flood. Egypt felt nothing of the deluge, they had an uninterrupted succession of Dynasties. China's civilization during the Yao Dynasty (between 2400 B.C. – 2200 B.C.) with no record of a cataclysmic interruption.
So Noah’s deluge was a local flood. But there was a global flood in Gen.1:2. Study II Pet.3:5-7, Jer.4:23-27.
Psa.104:6 Thou coveredst it with the deep as with a garment: the waters stood above the mountains. Psa.104:7 At thy rebuke they fled; at the voice of thy thunder they hasted away.
Gen 1:6 And God said, Let there be a firmament in the midst of the waters, and let it divide the waters from the waters.

Answer 8

In my opinion God is neutral. He gave us free choice. Pick a side

Answer 9

No.God executed justice to extreme evil.Man choose evil not God.

Answer 10

god is always goood
we r evil in the name of god!