everything that existed is craeted by God, Evil exists, therefore evil is created by God?

Answer 1

Does god do things because he's benevolent? If yes, then what he wills is because he's right. but...

If he's benevolent, how could he allow 6 million of his chosen people to be incinerated by Hitler, or why did he allow Truman to vaporize 200,000 Japanese men, women and children or Stalin to kill 30m Christians? If he was also omnipotent AND benevolent, then these events could not have happened.

If you counter that man's "free will" caused those events to happen, so don't blame God, then can it be said God is not omnipotent AND benevolent, because he allowed man's free will to reign?

And further, the mere existence of evil in the world makes the existence of a benign god impossible: if god were omnipotent, he could eliminate evil and if he were benign, he would want to do so...another way of saying this:

If god is able to prevent evil but is not willing to prevent evil, then he is not benevolent.

If god is willing to prevent evil but is not able to prevent evil, then he is not omnipotent.

Evil is either in occordance with god's intention or contrary to it. Thus, either god cannot prevent evil or he does not want to prevent evil.

Answer 2

If this argument is symbolically analyzed. Yes, structure and syntax indicate a logical conclusion.

The problem of this argument however is that all the terms are not clearly defined and may not be compatible in our language under the same context. Without understanding the context of which they are used, it is not that meaningful.

The concepts of existence, creation, "God" and evil vary so much in the bible. As such, the argument in question would not hold much weight.

Those terms are taken for granted with faith by believers. When skeptics come up with the statements, it just seems twisted for believers because the different mind sets each made different assumptions regarding those words.

If existence of "God" could so trivially be disputed, it would have been done long time ago without being such a pain in the neck.

We need to dig deeper in the nature of each of the terms to come up with stronger arguments for or against the subject at hand.

Answer 3

The first answerer in his answer in poetic form almost accepts the position enunuciated in the question. The other answerer conveniently hides behind forgetfulness.

The theory enunciated in the question is based on a fallacy.The scriptres nowhere say that God created Evil. In fact,the moment He smelt that Satan his next in command in Heaven was plotting against the Son of God he consigned him and his followers in the nethermost depth.The Paradise Lost contained a graphic description of the great downfall which was going on for a whole week. This does not anywhere suggests that God created or evenencouraged evil.He has strictly made the world created by Him Out of Bounds for Satan and his cohorts. It is another thing that they surreptitiously crawl in but it should be remembered not as evil but under the guise of something good.The serpent tempted Adam not with a plot to overthrow God but describing to him the advantages that would flow by partaking of the fruits of the Tree of Knowledge. Had he come as Evil Incarnate even the simpleton of an Adam would have thrown him out.

Dr; S.Radhakrishnan, ex-President of India who was a great philosopher had dealt with this subject in his book on Indian Philosophy. His simple explanation says that Evil has no idependent existence. If it were so then it would have been as abiding as good and the past,the present and the future of the world would have been marked by their continous conflict.He says that Evil is nothing but the absence of good as Darkness does not have an existence of its own: it is only the absence of light. The moment a ray comes in darkness disappears.

So, no fears, there is no satan , no hell,no hellfire nothing. These are all the creations of our own diseased brains. It would be interesting to note that the Christians did not have even a proper word for hell. They called it Hades which was nothing but the garbage dump outside Jersalem. When Aristotle asked his disciple Plato wheher cowdung will find a place in his Ideal World world he vehemently rejected this preposterous idea till the teacher explained that dung is nothing but dispoaced matter

Answer 4

What if evil is simply the absence of good? Then evil is nothing. "Nothing" can't be created. (This is the solution to your puzzle from a strickly human standpoint.)

A theological anwer could play along similar lines. When a created being does evil, no creation is involved. Murder is not creative. Theft is not creative, etc. The being herself was created. Her free will was created. Her ability to create was created. The ideas she considers are created. According to the Bible, the first sin was eating of a forbidden fruit. God created the dietary law and the natural consequence of breaking it. By creating a choice he created the potential for evil to exist. Had Eve not chosen to do evil (and had Adam likewise along with all their descendants) then no evil would exist even though God created the potential for it. Therefore, God cannot be said to have created evil, only to have created the potential for it. When Adam and Eve chose to eat a forbidden fruit, ths was not an act of creation either. It was an act of destruction. So humans did not create evil either, but they did destroy themselves by it.

Some theology holds that evil emanates from Satan. The way this would work is if Satan was formerly a "good" created being, like an angel. Satan does not then have the power to create. He does, however, have the power to disrupt the created good (much like a musician may not be able to erase a symphony, but may have the power to play a discordant note). This he does, for example, by misleading Adam and Eve to eat the forbidden fruit. Satan does not create evil, but he can use it and it can emanate from him.

Short anser -- evil need not be created to exist.

Answer 5

God cannot exist without evil now, can he? If he's good, there has to be "badness" to compare him against, and if he was the creator of everything, therefore you are right, he created evil.

Answer 6

God can do anything but can not do evil, so evil is nothing. It is the one thing that he can not do, He who can do anything.

Evil exists because of man's free will.

Answer 7

Yes and no. God primarily wanted to create good, but this "evil" person was jealousand envied God-- therefore turned against God himself. Now, he's recruiting people to join him in hell. Which isn't a very nice place.

Answer 8

Yes, God created everything. He created all good men/women but due to jealousies and hatred, some became evil and revolted against God.

Answer 9

Evil is the dark side of God. I suppose that without Evil we wouldn't understand God.

Answer 10

Darkness does not exist as an independent entity.
Darkness is the absence of light.

Cold does not exist as an independent entity.
Cold is the absence of heat

Evil does not exist as an entity all on its own, either.
Evil is the absence of good.

God is good. Where God is not allowed, as in public schools, there has been an increase in evil---drugs, shootings, STD. teen pregnancies...... you-name-it, it has gone from non-existant to pervasive in the past forty years.