Where did evil come from?

Question

If God created everything and God makes no mistakes, then where did evil originate from? Evil needed a cause in order to exist.

In the King James Bible it is written:

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

"Shall a trumpet be blown in the city, and the people not be afraid? Shall there be evil in a city, and the LORD hath not done it?" (Amos 3:6)

In the New King James Bible, it is written:

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

The change from "evil" to "calamity" is also present in the New King James version of the Amos verse.

So I ask a few questions:

Why did the change occur?

If you agree more with "calamity" being in that verse, then where did evil come from?

If you say evil does not exist, then where did wickedness originate (God makes a reference to wickedness in Genesis)?

If it comes from humans (or the human brain) then that would mean that God created humans with evil in their brains.

Again, I say that evil needs a cause.

If Satan created evil and God created Satan, then what is the real conclusion?

Evil - the absence of good

People keep saying evil originated from these different things like greed, vanity, selfishness, etc.

WHERE DID THOSE COME FROM? When I said originate, I meant the ultimate, orignial source.

Answer 1

Buddha says evil is due to the ignorant mind!

Answer 2

Correction there is no god! Evil is a natural part of the human conscience. Just like survival skills, evil grew larger because humans nurtured that part of the brain long enough for it to be past on for generations. Read Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde. Maybe you'll get a better understanding. Don't become so consumed in the bible either because Christianity is only a ball and chain used by the high church. It took over four hundred years to admit the were wrong about what thy did to Galileo, so why won't they be wrong about anything else?

Answer 3

First, when reading the Bible, reading the plain english translation leaves much to be desired. You really need to look at the original meanings of the words. In Isaiah 45:7, the reading of the text in it's original form yields other meanings, such as calamity, which yields something entirely different from your example.

Second, belief that the Christian God created evil presupposes that one believe in that God. I, for one, do not.

This leads me to my own idea of where evil comes from: That being greed. Greed is a fundamental part of the human condition that must be conquered before we can successfully move on. I, personally, define greed as a pathological need to have more; more money, more things, more power over others, more sex, more drugs... more of everything.

I believe that it is the desire for self-preservation gone awry. We all have a need to insure that we are prepared to survive; do we have enough to eat? do we have a place to sleep, clothes to wear, somebody to love. When it goes beyond this, this is where the human animal begins to cause disruption in society. Enough people believing that they need to control others results in war. A man's desire for sex and control leads to rape and harming of women. And so it goes.

In the end, evil, to me, is a sickness of "more".

Answer 4

Yes Satan commited the original sin, Pride his fall was because of pride and everything was created by God for God why did God create this i do not know like why did God but the tree in the garden i do not know and why does he let satan out of the pit after a 1000 years to tempt man i do not know, these are the mysteries of God but some i do know i will know i also know my name is written in the Lambs Book of Life Praise God.

Answer 5

Evil comes from none other than Satan himself... Yes God allows Satan to use his works... If he didn't then there would be no decisions for us to make we wouldn't have any sin in our lives to ask forgivness for and there would be nothing for God to fight for... Satan is bound, and whatever is bound on this earth shall be bound from heaven also... God did not does not and will never cause us to sin, or cause us to have evil in our lives,we do that, we cause that when we allow satan to slip threw the knot and work in some way threw us... God is ever so mighty and ever so great that nothing will evil will ever come from him... But threw him all can be changed.. As for the verses that you are reffering to read the whole chapter before you decide what a verse is talking about, then read the whole book before you decide what a chapter of it is about...

Answer 6

Satan is the originator it started with him.

"If Satan created evil and God created Satan, then what is the real conclusion?"

He brought Evil into the world by choosing to become prideful and pride in itself isn't evil . He took something good and and used it to jusify his rebellion and angels always had freewill. God didn't make evil it began with satan. Anything opposite of God's will is evil. God being good.

Answer 7

Good and Evil comes for God.

Gen 2:9 And out of the ground made the LORD God to grow every tree that is pleasant to the sight, and good for food; the tree of life also in the midst of the garden, and the tree of knowledge of good and evil.

Answer 8

Actually, the concept is void (if you are talking about offenses against god), so evil didn't "come" from anywhere. Actions may properly be perceived as evil if they adversely affect society. In this usage, "wickedness" is synonymous with "evil", but these are all things of human interpretation. Genesis is fiction, so you can't use it for reasoning.

Answer 9

Evil is in the heart of the evil doer. God made man and gave the freewill, he also made the angels and cast out Lucifer, therefor God did create evil, in a very general since

Answer 10

God created evil just like he created everything else, he knew that there had to be a balance. Good can't exist without evil, that sort of thing.

Answer 11

Evil originated with Lucifer. He thought he was every bit equal to, if not better than, God and challenged him. God threw Lucifer out of Heaven. He is now referred to as Satan. I believe Cain was influenced by Satan and that all evil humans are descendants of Cain.