If only God can create, how did Satan and/or humans create evil?

Question

I understand the idea of free-will, but this would imply that satan or humans thought or created something that God was incapable of because of his perfectly true nature.

I believe a thought is a thing if it can be considered a sin.

I am not doubting God's Truth. It's just a philisophical question.

Answer 1

All came from god, even Satan. If evil exists, it is part of everything, because it is something. So everything including evil came from god. Evil can only come from an evil god.

Answer 2

That is a really good questions and theologians have been trying to figure it out for centuries. I believe that it is all part of the idea of free will. Evil is a complicated idea. What you are talking about is really sin. Sin is when we use the free will that God has given us to deliberately do those things which he has forbidden us to do. Sometimes those things are so terrible that they constitute an evil. For instance when someone becomes a serial killer or the instrument of genocide. Really when a any person chooses to deliberately hurt another person, it is evil. By given us the ability to choose to sin, then God has given us the ability to do evil. So essentially God created potential for evil, but hoped that we would never use it. Every being, including the angels, was given the ability to choose. It is like Pandora's Box or Eve's apple. Any story in which the protagonist is given the choice between what is right and what is wrong would illustrate this concept.

Answer 3

God created Satan {lucifer} at one time he was Gods favorite angel and the most beautiful of all, until he wanted to be like God and take over then he was cast out of heaven along with about 1/3 of the angels that were his followers, Satan has been a deciever and a liar from the day he was cast out of heaven, hence he is against the will of God, God cannot look at sin. You can read this in Isaiah 14:9-17

Answer 4

Evil is an act performed, not a tangible thing, Satan has created nothing at all, he merely distorts the truth to use your free will to do bad. He is a rebelious angel that used his free will to become a god of untruths and he was able to drag one third of the angels down with him. He challenged Gods authority and tried to prove that God was a liar and could not have a single human subject that he could not make to sin. Jesus proved Satan a liar by living a perfect life down to his death, so Satan's days are numbered.....KECK

Answer 5

As humans we helped create evil when we crusified the son of god, jesus. Since then, we as humans are born with what's called original sin. God didn't tell us to be evil and cruel and to kill each other, we do it all on our own because it's in our nature as human beings. The devil gets his power and abilities by feeding off our sins that we do everyday. Of coarse, if we didn't sin, the devil wouldn't have any power period. So he and the other angels that were cast out from heaven tempt man all the time and do everything in their vast powers to make us sin and go against God in any possible way.
In a way, the free-will God has given us was our own demise and we misuse it by giving in to Satan and his angels. I mean no offense to the human race, but i've read the bible and simply observed everything and everyone around me and has asked myself the same question aswell. We create evil bacause of our inability to resist temptations and not being able to resist Satan.
It is simply in our nature as being human to do the things that we do and not use a lot of common sense, but it's mostly because of the devil.
We can easily overcome this by using common sense
and giving ourselves to the lord.
"To punish is to be human, to forgive is to be devine"
have a nice day.

Answer 6

Wow,that's a good question. God is the only one who can create. Satan(or Lucifer) is the fallen angel because he thought he was better and/or more powerful than God.

When Adam and Eve ate off of The Forbidden Tree,sin and disease and everything bad was released into the world. That is why there is sin in the world.

Satan tempts us all day,every day to sin. That's just how it is.

Answer 7

All of the evil that exists, exists in the minds of those who believe in it.

In ancient Jewish tradition Satan is simply an angel doing the work that God assigned to Satan to do.

The word Satan means challenger. With the idea of Satan challenging us, or tempting if you will. This description sees Satan as the angel who is the embodiment of man's challenges. This idea of Satan works closely with God as an integral part of God plan for us. His job is to make choosing good over evil enough of a challenge so that it becomes clear to us that there can be only one meaningful or logical choice.

Contrast this to Christianity, which sees Satan as God's opponent. In Jewish thought, the idea that there exists anything capable of setting itself up as God's opponent would be considered polytheistic or setting up the devil to be an equally powerful polarity to god or a demigod.

Oddly, proof for The Christian satan/devil mythology is supposedly found in the ancient Jewish texts that were borrowed to create the bible. One can’t help but wonder how Christians came up with such a fantastically different interpretation of Gods assistant Satan in their theology.

Other hints about Satan’s role in human relations can be seen if you look at the name Lucifer. It meaning in the original tongue translates as Light bearer or light bringer. Essentially the bringer of enlightenment. The temptations of the Satan idea bring all of us eventually into Gods light. Hardly the Evil entity of Christian mythology.

Love and blessings
don

Answer 8

I have no idea how evil entered into the world.
The Bible says that satan had pride- but I am not sure where that came from?
That is a question only God can answer.

Answer 9

Read the book of Genesis from the bible.
Evil or sin was created from Adam and Eve not listening to God.

Answer 10

The short answer is, there is no evil.
"Evil" is a judgement humans make, individually and collectively. We decide what is good and what is evil, and our society reflects those decisions. This is the perfection that God created: once you experience the perfection in everything, you can truly be said to be living "on earth, as it is in heaven."