Did GOD create evil?

Question

So let me guess .. Genocide, murder, rape, cruelty was originally created by GOD right? Or GOD is love? ( unconditional)


Isaiah 45
45:7 I form the light, and create darkness: I make peace, and create evil: I the LORD do all these things.
Amos 3
3:6 Shall a trumpet be blown in the city, and the people not be afraid? shall there be evil in a city, and the LORD hath not done it?

Now i know ppl will go into the justification but tough they will say they have no idea of reasons for grand master plan. But for sure they know for GOD creating evil is a good thing.

I am confused, why ppl telling me about free will when there is a direct Quote from bible where GOD says him self he create evil.
What else would it take for Christians to at least read the bible.

Answer 1

if one believes in god and god is creator of all, good and evil...it is their god who has also created the murderers, rapists and atrocities in this world
People are using the "free will" argument...but if god is omniscient...that states man does not have free will...you cannot pick and choose the parts that you want to use...either you believe (a) he is omniscient OR (b) you have free will

Answer 2

God created free will, so in a sense, God created evil -- because God knew that free will would be abused.

Just because God had a good reason for allowing evil to exist does not mean that we as humans should go and do evil so that good may eventually come of it (Paul dealt with this question already in his letter to the Romans).

See Genesis 45:1-8 and Romans 3:5-8, for example.

Answer 3

Some translations use "disaster" in the Isaiah passage, but that may just be semantics. A worthy question. The Lord does indeed, at times, send things that are "evil" to discipline, rebuke, correct or judge. That does not mean that God is the author of evil, but rather that he can use means like natural disaster, disease, etc. to accomplish His purposes.

It is interesting how varied the human response is to calamity. Some accept it with grace and exhibit tremendous growth during times of trial and disaster. Others become embittered and defiant.

Grace and peace to you

p.s. That was a great question to put out there!! It will likely prove to strengthen the faithful and confound the nonbeliever.

Answer 4

Of course he did, even if you argument the "free will thing" he had to create evil as well, so that humans, by their own free will could "fall into it", if he choose to, evil would be impossible to do, because he is supposed to be all powerful

god invented sin, pain and suffering, if he didnt want any of that to exist he simply wouldnt have made it, god is supposed to be above logic and the rules of the universe, so if something is is becuse he created that

supposedly

edit. and about the satan argument, satan cannot have done what he did if it wanst possible, and if it was possible was because it had to be, because nothing could happen without the allowance of god, otherwise god is flawed

and god is supposed to be omniscient and perfect

and there comes the question of the free will of the angels and bla bla bla.. thats another different topic

point is if god wanted to, evil wouldnt exist, even as an absence, god has to have created it, because he is all, isnt that right? he created light and darkness, remember?

god created absence too, because there cant be absence of god, that is an ontological impossibility

oh my, i cant belive belivers can dimisnidh the size of their gos in order to explain something they shouldnt ask questions about

christianity is ignorance, remember that

Answer 5

there is often been a controversy between theists no count if evil is a separate stress or only the absence of good. many faiths have a 'manichaean' view of two 'gods', one good and one evil, who conflict over the earth. some Christians see it this form, with God and the devil locked in try against, the earth putting interior the steadiness. look at how considerable the devil is to a pair kinds of Christianity! If evil replaced into only the absence of good, he does no longer be considerable in any respect. non secular doctrines and scriptures are many times involved with explaining why, if God is proper and all his creations are appropriate, why life on earth is so imperfect. one thank you to describe that's to work out that there is a devil who has an evil impression interior the international, offering evil selections only as God promises good ones, and guy has 'loose will' to bypass the two way. CS Lewis had an exciting way of finding at it (and that i want i ought to tell you which of them e book yet they have all style of melted jointly in my concepts as a results of fact that I study them years in the past). He stated there have been somewhat 2 varieties of evil practiced via human beings. One is -genuine- evil--greed, anger, etc., the component that makes human beings desire to actively injury one yet another. the different is only our 'animal nature'--laziness, selfishness, the unawareness of the desires of others.

Answer 6

God created ALL things, no excuses, no justification, I think the real question here is what exactly is evil. Just as there is no such thing as darkness, you cannot get 'more dark', darkness is the term we use for the absence of light. God did not create darkness, He Created light. Where there is no light we call it darkness.

Similarly, there is no such thing as 'evil'. Evil is the term we use for the absence of GOOD.

Answer 7

Paris Wednesday July 19th

From the time we are born, we are living in a world where it is accepted that some way of life are good and some way of life are bad.

It is often taught that what makes our greatness or our suffering is the fact that we are the only living entity that has the choice to act either in a good way or in an evil way.

When we try to find out what that means, we have the very sensible reply that acting in a way that treats the “other” as if he was another “myself” is good, while acting in such a way that the “other” is a tool for me to gain more profit is bad or evil.

For the practical day to day, month to month, year to year, century to century life, this is a useful approximation.

It demands that the “myself” should be able to make to make the difference between “other myself” and “non-other myself”.

Some centuries ago, the Masters of the Time where in good faith when they did not recognize in black people or colored people or sick people another form of “myself”.They really thought that they were free to take advantage of that life form.

We are ashamed of them yet we are not very different.

We have no compulsion in using animals as tools for our life, up to the point of taking their life.

In our day-to-day life we are even worse, we pay lip service to the love of the “other myself” but we exclude from that list criminals, terrorists, handicapped, elderly, regretfully there is no end to the list.

Now the question was whether God created Evil.

First one has to be clear as to the meaning of the acronym “GOD”.

The accepted definition of God is

That unable and unimaginable ?????? that created time and space.

The question marks are not the expression of a perplexity but are in abeyance with the rule that if you put a name to something that does not have a name, you distort it.

When time and space were created, it can be debated whether the final appearance of life was unavoidable or not.

Even the concept of “life” in nearly impossible to define or limit. Check on the first seminars of the Université de tous les savoirs”.

As life started, it has in it an unavoidable flaw. Life is defined as “whatever wants to go on living” and non life is defined as “whatever does not care whether it goes on living or not”.

As a consequence of “life”, and that consequence is unavoidable, all life take a bit of life from another form of life.

Whether this is Evil is doubtful.

Would that mean that Evil is a matter of how much of life we take from other life forms” or how we take it, or when we take it, or for what purpose we take it?

So the answer would really be that no life as we understand it can be separated from “good and bad” that it is inherent in it. In the same way that you cannot take away the “i” from “Life” without making it meaningless.

But for day to day activities, for our relationships in a practical life, is is a sound practice to look at Good as a Grand Father that has given us the power and pain to choose between acting for our own benefit, or to act for the benefit of humankind, which is impossible.

If I have offended somewhat, accept my apologies

ns

Answer 8

Yes, God created everything, but by giving man free will, he (man) created all that is evil in the world now

Answer 9

All evil is is the absence of God, he did not create it in the sense he created man, but evil would not exist without God.

Answer 10

My belief is that God created or gave free will and Man decided to make his own choices and at times chose what is determined to be evil.