Why does God want for there to be evil outside Him? Why does He will creatures who will against Him?

Question

Perplexing question: does God have free will? What is at the top? Does His nature define His actions, or does His choice define His nature? Is that a rational question? Choice is always based upon something, so His being defines His actions; there is nothing else for Him to base His will to action (for Him, will is action) upon. Humans too; we can do nothing except what our nature leads us to do. So, what in God's nature leads Him to create creatures with the capacity for disobedience? What in God's nature leads Him to create that which rebels against His nature? Why create willful beings? Why does God want for there to be evil outside Him? Why does He will creatures who will against Him?

Answer 1

Outside evil... well, if it's not outside, then it's inside. And Descartes God as evil geni argument proved that one wrong. Willing creatures that will against him.. He didn't will them into existence. If we're talking Satan, he was Lucifer, rebelled and became such. Does God have free will? Yes, to the degree that he is free to choose that which doesn't interfere with the laws with which he is bound to, for example his own laws-covenants he makes and such. Free will trumps God in this understanding. It's a law with which our creation is predicated, explaining how he could create or organize beings with the capacity for disobedience. Actions are nature. Why not create willfull beings? By what other means would you have a human show potential for progression, if not by his or her own capacity to choose? If there is no opposition, no evil, nothing to choose between, then there is no point for intelligence. The very word means "to choose between." We could have all just been furry little bunnies or something, otherwise.

Answer 2

God has free will. The top consists of whip creme with a cherry on top. His nature defines his action. I would say that was a rational question. Without the capability to disobedience how would he know that YOU wanted to follow him. Willful beings need to make choices and choices have consciences. This again allows for him to know that YOU want to follow him. Good and evil must be together so that you know the difference. If you don't have an opposite how will you know which way you are going. The reason that he wills creatures who will against him is answered above.

Answer 3

God's traits and existence can be questioned on many levels.. and rightfully so, but.. all these questions and answers are fragmented in many seemingly independent discussions, questions and answers..

There are however philosophies that seem to be on the track of integrating all, answering all of these questions.. These kinds of discussions are repeated over and over, same questions, same answers, endless discussions, because you can not answer them on that level.

For example, I could ask "what is the lochness monster's diet?", it would be pointless to discuss it on that level, when a previous question isn't answered yet, on which the next question depends.. namely "does the lochness monster even exist? What is it? How does it exist? Physically, as a myth.. and if it does exist, does our image of it match reality?". A lot of more important and fundamental questions are skipped.. before those are answered, everything else is meaningless.

Before you can discuss these subjects, you'd have to start from the very first building blocks, ask questions about the very elimentary things, upon which everything else is founded on.. (like, does God even exist? Who or what is God? Are we even defining him or it in the same way?).

If we are speaking the same words, but are applying completely different definitions to those words, entrenched in dogmatic assumptions, then we can talk all we want, we'll never find a mutually satisfactory answer, since we're not even asking the same questions.

The answer others will give to your question is very predictable... same old, same old. Yet it will remain unsatisfactory for the other party, because it doesn't integrate with the part that we do agree upon.. there's too much in between that is lacking to come to a fruitful discussion. Basics need to be questioned first.

Answer 4

Hahaha! (smile of the buddha). There is no God, God, for you are God. Man which develops God, is the God. The God which you inquire, is you the man, that strives to be beyond man. You are God. How odd, that that you be fodder, for you, and you must nod,like a clod of sod, that you lowly, be God. Broad, is barely the fraud, that the bod, is all the God, that ever formed a wad of sod, which is the bod. How odd. You Todd, man of applaud, are so very much God.

Answer 5

In my opinion, God created the universe to be in balance. He then created us, creatures often without balance, and gave us free will. It is up to us to decide whether we will work within the balance, or create our own imbalance. He has already told us that we will have great rewards for working within the balance, and great punishment if we create imbalance. Yet, He has given us the free will to choose ourselves.

Answer 6

God has shown there is evil and good in the world. there are two paths one leads to evil and one leads to good. he has given us the understanding power to know good from bad if we want to go the right way its our decision likewise if we want to go the wrong way that too is our decision. the path to the evil is easy but getting out of it is tough whereas the path to the good is very ardous but once you are on the path with a firm mind and faith in god it is very easy.

Answer 7

why will for evil? to make himself look better and more saint than what he seems

willful beings are a false comfort.. to make our lives seem less miserable.. the will is there to keep insanity at bay..

Answer 8

its a secret but god wants nothing from you .... he is everything even your pain