If God created us, and made us in his image and God is all good, then why is humankind so evil?

Question

Surely if God was so good and clever at what he did, then he would have built something into us to stop us being as evil as we are, unless we just became evil but then that would point to us changing ergo, evolution, but evolution can't exist in a race created by a supreme being, can it?

Answer 1

Lol. First off your "assumptions" are off base and as bad as the hard-*ssed Christians are wrong.

What I mean is: Why could God not have used Evolution? Nothing, I repeat, NOTHING in the Bible say's Boo about guided evolution. There are nothing to support it, nothing to deny it. Period. The fact is, ITS SIMPLY "NOT" IMPORTANT.

Also, "how are we like God" well, we are spiritual creatures in the sense that we're not happy unless we have something to believe in. Even if that's money, sex or drugs. Everyone whos happy, believes in something. Also, we know the differences between "right and wrong," and we KNOW when we do THEM! Trouble is, as the Bible says, "the spirit is willing, but the FLESH is weak." So while we WANT to do good, physically we find it easier to sin.

WHY would God put something in us to stop us from sinning? This isn't some freaking kindness experiment, THIS IS A TEST. And most of us are FAILING IT. God has specific requirements that must be met in order for his worship to be acceptable to him. God has "specific requirements" for prayer to be acceptable to him or he doesn't hear it (Lam. 3:44). So, if your not doing what is "set out in the Bible" where HIS INSTRUCTIONS ARE TO BE FOUND, why WHY should he even LISTEN to you? Its not SO DANG HARD TO PICK UP A BOOK AND STUDY what He needs, IS IT? Especially, when the prize is ETERNAL LIFE? Jeez, what do people do for a freaking A+? But they won't study for Eternal Life?

Give me a break.

Answer 2

Only the gods have the knowledge of good and evil. How can you possibly know what is evil? We ate of that tree and are now on our way to death. In a blink of a eye in the life of this planet we have brought about more death and destruction mainly our own. We are the ones that delude ourselves into thinking we can control the world and rule it. God made it for man, right? It's the "so we can do what we want with it" mentality that you are perceiving as evil. The gods (or God if you wish) only create perfection. It took one tribe of people with the crazy thought that the world was made for them and that they would no longer live in the hands of the gods to put us where we are today. There is nothing flawed with the human race. Only the way we live is killing us.

Answer 3

Don't blame God for mans doing, he gave us the free will to do with it as we please, and for some we messed up good, but why should he go and clear up after us, there's an old saying ' You made your bed now lay in it'
What was God's image, people think that we look like him, give me a break, just think what is to say that God created the first micro organism that started life, God is a power a organism of life, Adam and Eve to little bugs in a pond, and the easiest way to explain to someone years ago who had no understanding was to tell a story about two people, think about it go back a few thousand years and try and explain evolution, what do you think people would understand better??

Answer 4

If there is no evil, then good is not proved. Make a line with white paint on a black surface. It is clearly visible. Repeat it on a blue surface, it is less highlighted. Repeat on Red, Green and Yellow. When it caomes to yellow it is very weak and hard to distinguish. Darker the surroundings the line is clearer.

Why do we need that? Living among the evil people, the true good one will be revealed. Otherwise all are alike. God is looking for the good one that does not have the tendency to get defiled. Anywhere he stays good. So the test.

Answer 5

God if perfect, but we are sometimes imperfect, God is infallible, we are sometimes fallible, we are part and parcel of God and possess free will, just as you exercised free will in asking your question, I am exercising my free will to offer a response, through misuse of free will we can certainly sink to a position much lower then the position we are in now, through proper use of free will we can also practically elevate ourselves back to the original spiritual position that we fell from.

This material world provides us with the opportunity to not only exist separately from the Supreme, but also to "dress ourselves" in an individual material form suitable to the mentality we have, "man proposes & God disposes". This is all based on free will, if that free will is abused, because in practical terms we can see that some human beings are like animals, then free will is removed and the spirit soul descends to the lower species of life, which is most hellish.

So there is evolution and devolution, or in other words you can fall down further or elevate yourself by the activities, desires and mentality that is created by yourself in the human form of life, Darwin got it half right, there is an evolution/devolution of consciousness as the spirit soul transmigrates from one material body to another, best thing to do is to revive the original spiritual body, temporarily covered by the eight separated material forms of energy, five gross & three subtle and return back home back to Godhead.

To discuss further:-Sriman Sankarshan Das Adhikari ([e-mail])

Answer 6

In Buddism there is a law of cause and effect, it is called karma. A word that is so easily used now but hardly ever understood.
Karma is the expectation to reap what we sow.
Our thoughts and actions determine the kind of life we can have. If we do good things, in the future good things will happen to us. If we do bad things, in the future bad things will happen to us. Every moment we create new karma by what we say, do, and think. If we understand this, we do not need to fear karma. It becomes our friend. It teaches us to create a bright future.
The Buddha said,

"The kind of seed sown
will produce that kind of fruit.
Those who do good will reap good results.
Those who do evil will reap evil results.
If you carefully plant a good seed,
You will joyfully gather good fruit."

Maybe mankind is just sowing too much bad karma

Answer 7

Christians, I see, rely on their boogey-man, Satan...even though, with a little research (through web-sites foiund by Google) an afterlife anti-God named anything, did not exist. 'Satan' was a descriptionary word for 'anti-human' in the original aramaic. The OT even has a verse that has God qouting that he is 'the one and only' and that he 'creates evil'...
Good question for the Jews, I don't understand their reasoning for following this deity...well, I guess they figured he was more powerful than them and feeling bad about yourself is what he wants...

Answer 8

God wanted to have children that are children out of free choice. If any of his children doesn't want to accept God as his father, his tutor, his guide and his friend, that is OK by him. Not that it will not hurt him, but he'll leave you the choice.

If God had made perfect persons, there wouldn't have been a free choice.

Compare it with you being in love with some who doesn't love you. Suppose you'd have a pill that could make the other love you. Would you give the pill? and would you value the love as much as if the other would have loved you out of your own free will?

I think God didn't want to force us to love him and do what he wanted us to do. He wanted people who really loved him, and did what He wanted us to do out of own free will, to show us we love God and want to do what "papa" wants us to do, so he'd be enthusiastic about His child.

Answer 9

All of humankind is not purely evil. There is good and bad. People tend to only notice the evil nature more often. Good deeds and actions are often forgotten easily.

Answer 10

Hey man, I don't know about you, but I was made in God's image. I have perfect hair, perfect abs, a perfect butt, and the ladies love me. Basically, I'm perfect. We're all sorry that you were born the way you were, but that's not our fault. Stop blaming God for your parents' mistakes. You look like Kenny G. Stay away from my car!