Some say if God is good why create evil.?

Question

What you have to understand as I have. Is that evil is not created but it is the absence of creation. Evil are just voids of spiritual nothingness floating around. Or it can be looked at as rips in the fabric of creation that lets the non-creation in or leads us outside of creation. How can God create nothing? Look at it this way, the bible says that hell is spiritual death. Death is the absence of life so it makes sense that evil is an empty void. It is a void because it lacks God.

Answer 1

Is this a question? I think you kinda answered it yourself love!

Answer 2

I wouldn't say that Evil is something lacking in creation. If it were so, why would God have said it was very good?
Angels have free will, as the 1/3 that fell. Could it be that when Lucifer decided that he wanted to be equal or above God, that this was the sin of pride, which then evil was born from this.
Not only is Hell spiritual separation, but it is a physical place with torment. (See rich man and Lazareth).

Answer 3

Well, now, this question is going to be tough.

Alright, first of, we gotta kill this notation of evil. Evil can not be the that absence of creation. That is no way to logically assert that theory. From you brief explanation, the only way you hinge your argument is on the fact that it "appears" that creation is good, because naturally God must be good because his is our benevolent creator.

So, Evil can not be the absence of God. It logically does not make sense. It forces the question: isn't god everything? If he isn't everything, why did he decide to create "evil" in his creation. I mean come on, why would anyone build a car, then rig it with time bomb that starts timing everything it hits a speed bump in the existence called life.

OK, now that we have flaked away the notation that Evil is the absence of God, lets go down the fundamentally definition of Good and Evil. Good is generally regarded as behavior accepted in societyy, while evil is the behavior that society prefers to be absent. So, since Good and Evil on a human level is quite simply a matter of choice, It quite clear that in a sense good people follow the general accepted "laws" of a societ while evil people don't.

Evil in this case isn't an abstract, outside/inner force that governs man, and is instead an active choice when what is right thing to do and when one chooses the easier path. It is very hard to be a good person, and it is much easier to bad.

If I take evidence from the bible, it is clear to me that god had created Lucifer to be his good right hand man. But somehow, Lucifer made a conscious choice to defy the will of god/he had a disagreement with God about of something (I dislike how if we took the bible literally to be word of god, why it conveniently leaves out the part of why Lucifer defies god).

Maybe Lucifer was jealous, I don't know, I wasn't there. But I do know that for all of God's mighty powers, he had in visioned his creation to choose to be with him on the side of "good," and that being evil is a Choice. For a good person, it is impossible to run the idea of killing another person in cold blood.

Thus, it is my firm belief that God did not create evil, but that evil simple arises from people's choices to turn away from good in favor of a path that appears to be easier (in this case, evil) but in fact is as, or is even harder than the path good.

Answer 4

Logically, you must define a concept like good with its polar opposite, so that you can define what it isn't. So, evil must exist in order for good to exist, and vice-versa. And hell, Biblically, is defined as the absence of God, not death; death is the absence of life, and good the absence of evil. That's why the much-paraphrased quote, "The greatest trick the devil ever pulled was convincing the world he didn't exist" is so profound - by convincing the world that the devil, or "evil incarnate," does not exist, one is, logically, trying to prove that good, or good incarnate (God, or The Goddess) does not exist, there is no such thing as morality and no reason to do right, therefore condemning more souls to hell (if you buy the Judeo-Christian interpretation of reality and the afterlife).

Answer 5

Ever see a top without a bottom, or a front without a back? Maybe we need evil so we know when we have good.
After God created everything in Creation week, He declared in Genesis 1:31 that everything was good. Sometime after that, Satan and his demons revolted against God. In Genesis 3:1, Satan tempted Eve, and evil entered the world.

Answer 6

Evil is a judgment that is specific to the point of view of the one passing the judgment, or deciding that the action constitutes evil. It does not exist outside of the mind of the one judging the action as evil.

Others may agree who hold a similar point of view but this does not make it real. Someone viewing the situation from a separate or opposite point of view will see the situation differently.
Often viewing the same action as a good or positive turn of events.

Evil is the name we give to things that we wish had not happened, and to the people who do these things.

Good is the name we give to things that we like. What is good for one group may be considered bad to some other group who sees things from a divergent point of view.

Evil is only a thought in our minds, unless we fool ourselves into thinking it is external and that it may seek to do us harm. This is a trick that we play on ourselves, no more no less.

Love and blessings
don

Answer 7

The absence of God is the absence of Good Is the spawning ground of evil. As the absence of light is darkness. God created the light not the darkness. God did not create evil.

Answer 8

Maybe, God is all things, bad and good. However, to rise above that concept, just maybe, words are no longer applicable and the duality ceases to exist and the divinity arise.

No relationship between death and life, maybe birth and death, life is the dash or the inbetween moment as consciousness arises or the God becomes evident.

for me spirit cant die, only the body and the empty void is only being unaware

How we choose to search for our own truth or understanding is why we are here. Its all food for thought so let us use whats best that works for us.

love it all...

Answer 9

The Zen will say - you created evil at the moment you decided what good would be. Since they are exclusive - each needs the other just to exist. A void would be without traits. Evil has them.

Answer 10

Evil and good are simply the two opposites that are found throughout nature. Without opposites, the Yin and Yang, life would not be possible at all. Without opposites we would also have no freedom of choice. Therefore God does not interfere. Imagine two armies approaching, they are fighting over something as simple as food. Both parties are praying to God for help. Who is God to help?

Answer 11

God didn't create evil and saying so is blasphemy. God created everything perfect but made his inhabitants of the original perfect earth free moral agents. The main Prince Lucifer was beautiful and let it go to his head and he chose to be evil and think a wicked thought and that thought was to overthrow God and become God himself. So Lucifer now known and called satan is the creator of evil, not GOD.