If God didnt create evil...?

Question

For those of you who say God didnt create evil. then you are equalizing Evil with God, in the sense that God has always been and Evil has always been. And if both have always been then how is one more powerful then the other? in reality your creating a second God from evil. unless your saying Satan himself is a god, then your negating the monotheistic (one god) view of christianity and turning it into a polytheism (multiple gods)

btw it DOES say in the bible he created evil:

Isaiah 45:7
I form the light, and create darkness: I make peace, and create evil: I the LORD do all these things. (KJV)

http://www.biblegateway.com/keyword/?search=Create+evil&searchtype=all&version1=9&spanbegin=1&spanend=73

Answer 1

If you think God did NOT create evil, you are WRONG. God created satan, the devil, like EVERYTHING else. The purpose of doing this was to test us all as human beings. Based on our results, whatever we did in this world, we'll either go to heaven or hell. That's where it all started and that's where it all will end.

Answer 2

Jews do not trust in an attitude Lucifer. it truly is a latin be conscious inserted via St. Jerome. It comes from the Hebrew be conscious for the first user-friendly of the solar. it truly is area of a parable about Nebuchanezzer and how he had began to assert the morning prayers and lapsed into vanity and pride. yet I disagree which includes your premise. G-d likely did create evil because it says in Is 40 5:7 "Who varieties the user-friendly and creates darkness, makes peace and creates evil. i'm Hashem, maker of those sorts of." the basis of the be conscious create is "bara" which ability to create something the position not something existed earlier. there is not any social gathering interior the Torah the position this root is used with all and sundry yet G-d. The be conscious Evil is Rah, which purely ability evil. some attempt to bypass it off as calamity, even if it truly is only incorrect. I ask you, if something created evil as well G-d, then does that mean there are 2 creators? the 2d area of the reply is why evil became created and that is a really, very lengthy answer. enable's only say that evil is extremely different than the English definition. Shalom

Answer 3

NIV Isiah 45:7 I form the light and create darkness, I bring prosperity and create disaster; I, the Lord, do all these things.

Ephesians 1:11 In him we were also chosen, having been predestined according to the plan of him who works out everything in conformity with the purpose of his will....

It is saying that all things are included in God's plan. The creation, not the Creator, is responsible for committing sin and 'evil.' This should give us comfort in knowing that though someone may harm or wrong us, God is ultimately in control and can help us handle any situation we are in, if we only let him.

Horrible things happen to people everyday. Murder, rape, molestation...all crimes committed by man against man. So often people will say, "I don't believe in God because this horrible thing happened to me. If he existed, he wouldn't let these things happen." Ultimately, we have free will. For God to prevent all the evils of the world, we would not be allowed to have any choices. It is horrible the things that happen to people at the hands of others, but God is not to blame for them.

I look at it like this: God is a tree, and out of love, he produces fruit in the form of freewill. We come along and eat the fruit. Now, what does the fruit turn into when it comes out the other end? A form definately not as pleasant as it was when it entered our bodies. So are we responsible for what comes out of our body, or the tree that made the fruit?

Back to your statement though. You are assuming that evil has always been around. The BIble implies that there was no evil until Lucifer rebelled against God. There are different ways of interpreting the Bible than the mainstream views. I have heard some arguments that say evil and death are actual entities. I apologize for not having references for the passages, but the argument for death as a being (fallen angel perhaps?) sounded pretty strong to me.

You sound very informed, your question is well thought out, and you cited the Bible. It's nice to see someone on the other side of the fence questioning things in an objective manner.

I am not telling you that what I am saying is the 100% absolute truth as God would say it, but it is what I believe and what makes the most sense to me personally. Christianity is all about faith, and when it comes down to it, any belief relies on faith.

Answer 4

I am not a Christian, but I'll take a stab at this. No official Christian theology (Catholic or Protestant) acknowledges the existence of an absolute evil. Satan is performing a job within God's plan, and to that extent is considered good. The difference between good and evil is not in seeing how long they have existed, but in seeing if either can exist without the other. Here's how St. Augustine put it:

If we take all that exists to be good (to the religious because it is of God), then evil is simply that which does not exist. Take the metaphoric example of scraping your skin. The healthy skin is "good". The wound is not a thing in itself, but literally where no skin (no "good") exists. By this perspective, someone totally wounded would cease to be. In the same way, something that became totally evil would cease to be. Thus, absolute evil cannot exist, but absolute good (perfect health) can (hypothetically).

So God only "created" evil by negative contrast - the lack of good. Thus, saying he did not create evil is just as true. From this perspective it is only because of where we do not fully reflect the divine that we are called evil. I'm not so sure most Christians understand it this way, but it's the actual theology.

Answer 5

God can create anything that he wants to create because he is God. Satan was a beautiful angel in heaven that sat at God's right hand. He was not created to be evil, but he was jealous and thought that he was better than God and wanted to overthrow him from his throne. Satan made himself into a bad evil diety or person. God cast him down to earth and told him he could have control over the earth. God got rid of the evil that was in heaven. I am sure that if he wanted to he could've destroyed him in a second and he wouldnt' have anything to worry about. He didn't so satan still exists. Jesus was crucified and through his shedding of his blood he defeated Satan, so we are not bound by the evil in this world. There is nothing in the bible that says anything about Satan being considered a God. He is a demonic force that is here to steal , kill and destroy. He is refered to in the bible as a serpent. God didn't create the evil even though he could've, he threw it out of his "house" and got rid of it.

Answer 6

Evil is not a power in some dualistic scheme of reality. In Biblical theology, evil is non-conformity to the glory of God. So how then did it come to pass that evil made an appearance in history? It happened by the decree of God. Make no mistake, nothing happens, whether good or evil, apart from the determination and sovereign execution of the infallible will of God. That being said, God used secondary causation in the fall of man. Thus in summery, God is the ultimate cause of our non-conformity to his image, but we are the immediate cause. If you would like to see an excellent work by a Christian theologian on God’s ultimate authorship of evil, see ‘Religion, reason and revelation’ by Gordon H. Clark. Praise be to God!

Answer 7

God is non-dual and yet the material world is dual. God is beyond opposites, teh world is full of oposites. Without darkness, there is no light. Without woman, there is no man. Without night, there is no day. Without Hell, there is no Heaven.

Evil, Satan, Heaven are all human explanations like an artists impression.

What you need to do know is God is beyond dulaity. One must rise above the good and the bad, and see things as One. Stop judging, classifying, discriminating and you should be on ths track to One-ness very soon.

Answer 8

If you believe that Satan is the root of all evil then you must concede that God created evil. God created an angel that became the devil. So ultimately it would have to be God that is the ultimate source of evil.

Answer 9

God did not create evil the devil did, remember he was put out of heaven and he is down here causing trouble for us. God did not make the devil, he made himself. God only created good angels. the devil did not want anyone to worship God, that they should worship the devil. so the devil made himself evil

Answer 10

God may have created evil but evil is a temptation. Temptations should not be indulged...

anyways, what's your point? so what if God created evil... that doesn't mean that he wants us to be evil, it's just an outlet for The Damned people like yourself to go to when you feel weak... those with faith will avoid the evil temptations and rise to Heaven with God.