..then why did he create free will the only avenue to happyness? Why did he create evil? And if he knows the past, present and future then why did he not forsee it and not make evil, so people suffer don't in hell?
2006-08-22 04:01:32 · 25 answers · asked by CJ 3 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
So Satan created evil? I thought god created everything.
2006-08-22 04:28:10 · update #1
If you keep questioning everything like this, logical thought and reason will overcome you and you will be free.
2006-08-22 04:11:11 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
The story is already written by friend. You just need to live through it.
what exactky abt your will is free? Do you remember making a choice to come into this world? Or do you have a choice in when you will leave. You dont even know what you are going to be doing in 24 days from now or for that matter 24 mins from now.
Having said that there is no Evil in this world, from the perspective of God. The God that you speak of exists in a unitary state beyong Good and Evil. You live in a world of opposites and therefore you needs must make choices, classify and categorize into right and wrong, good and bad.
What meaning doth light have if there is no darkness, What signigicance does day have with out night, good have without evil. Creation was set forth by the One manifesting itself from iytself as two... The source manifesting itself as opposeites... Adam and Eve, Good and Bad, Love and Hate, Rich and poor.
Take away the dualities and what have you. Lo! and behold - you arrive at the source.
2006-08-22 04:21:01 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
God didn't create evil. Evil is the opposite of creation. It is destruction. Man made sin by turning from God and doing what he thought was right in his own eyes.
Proverbs 12:15 The way of a fool is right in his own eyes:
God foreknew the future and saw that it was good. A Christian has the Lord with them 24:7. Those people who will suffer hell, are the ones who tried to do what was right in their own eyes all their life. They didn't do what was necessary and simply ask the Lord Jesus Christ into their hearts and into their lives.
2006-08-22 04:16:49 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Did you create your shadow? It just follows you, right?
God did not create the universe as such, it just arises like his shadow. The universe is his reflection.
Now if that is the case, then you me and everybody is part of the reflection. And actually god is just watching everything as if its a change of scenary. He is aware of the scenary. So his true nature is awareness. God = awareness. The very awareness that you call your awareness. You do not exist as a person, really.
You are just a part of the scenary. You are just god's memory. His record book or diary or story book. Made of thought and kind of alive. Thought mistakenly thinks its the body and is aware.
So people and things appear to be born and die, thats the change of scenary. Your body is also part of the scenary. Awareness lives on. After your death, it would be a change of scenary. One day you may find that the body has dropped dead and the memory purged. The awareness goes on.
Free will, evil, hell are just interesting terms invented by thought and memory.
2006-08-22 04:26:08 · answer #4 · answered by nevildadrewalla 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
God didn't create evil. He created Satan, who created evil by tempting Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden. God was willing to forgive them, but there had to be a consequence.
Think about it this way-- If you had a child, would you follow him everywhere for the rest of his life to make sure he didn't do anything wrong? Or would you let him experience life for himself, make his own mistakes, and correct himself?
2006-08-22 04:16:11 · answer #5 · answered by TheDogStar12 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
CJ,That is a lot of Q's. simplified,Metaphysics,Is the key to understanding the unseen things. LIfe is a spiritual school. everything in the physical world is positive & negative,Up/down,in/out,good / evil, love/hate,etc., one automadically creates the other.It is the tension between the two that stimulates spiritual growth.why?because we are his seed and the negatives are but the firtilizer that make us grow to be like our father. read ephensians 2-22 & 4-6 LOVE Whistle Britches
2006-08-22 04:28:48 · answer #6 · answered by Weldon 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
God didn't create evil. He allowed us to follow Him, but evil comes when people do not do so. If that possibility didn't exist, then we would only be little robots. Would you rather have a real child loving you, or a baby doll? Would you rather have a real dog or a toy?
2006-08-22 04:08:56 · answer #7 · answered by flyersbiblepreacher 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
God gives us a chance to either be with him and take a life for him, or not. He is all knowing! he did not create evil, evil is sin and sin was brought into the world by adam and eve in the garden of eden. if you wish to know more read about it in the bible in the first chapter called genisis. just start reading and you will be amazed!!!!
2006-08-22 04:10:50 · answer #8 · answered by lyss 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
God did NOT make or create evil. Satan created evil.
2006-08-22 04:08:45 · answer #9 · answered by Albannach 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I cannot pretend to know the mind of God, but I expect that God loves fellowship and and loving relationships. Without free will, there is no real love. We would just be robotic. Why blame God for mankinds failings. He offers everyone the easiest way to eternal live with Him. If we choose to leave God out of our lives in this lifetime we can expect the same in eternity.
2006-08-22 04:32:03 · answer #10 · answered by zero 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Since, not If god created the universe and physics and everything in it...?
Because it means more when we have the choice. What good would it do if we were hard wired to worship? It wouldn't mean a thing. It's like your wife saying "Tell me you love me!" When you do, it means less than a spontaneous statement.
Also, we are in the image of God, and he has free will, so we do also.
2006-08-22 04:10:04 · answer #11 · answered by oklatom 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋