Did God create Evil? If so, why?

Answer 1

Yes. You can't know good without evil. You have to have all the opposites. Man, woman, light, dark, good, evil,etc... How would you know what good was, if you had nothing to compare it to?

Answer 2

That's a very good question and I have pondered on it for many years. Most Christian will say Lucifer was an angel of light and decided to rebel or that Eve listened to the snake and ate the apple. My question is where did the knowledge of rebellion or a decision to disobey and eat forbidden fruit come from. If the ability to make an unhealthy choice was there then evil was already there. They will then say God made us with free will. Well that's great but why did we have evil things from which to choose. It had to be there. So where did it start. I don't know the answer but it would appear that God created it since from him came all things. Now why he created it is another big story and I don't know the answer to that.

Answer 3

God did not 'create Evil'..... but he did charge one of his Angels (the best and 'brightest' as a matter of fact) to be his 'Prosecutor'.

That Angel had the duty of 'proving and testing' the faith of God's subjects and was quite good at it. God did not consign this Angel to the Abyss for what he did..... he was only doing Gods bidding.

That Angel?
Lucifer

Read Job sometime with an eye towards Lucifer being an Angel that 'tested Job's faith'. God never intervened and restored Job in the end, after a rather brutal 'testing'.

Evil is a concept that comes up later......
....and it lurks within the Human heart worst of all......

Answer 4

I can agree with the statement that Evil isn't a created substance but a behavior that manifested due to the fall.God is very real and has brought the cure for the side effect of this behavior (namely eternal separation/ Death).We all sin due to the conflicting desires of the flesh. We can't free ourselves from these influences so everyone ends up falling from purity. Mankinds only hope is that one of us can manage to stay free from rebelling despite our nature to feed our desires and apease God's requirement of perfection. Jesus had all the cravings of a normal man and the ability to resist those cravings because He had the Spirit of perfection (holiness) as the Son of God. His blood became an acceptable attonement for humanity. We inherit that attonement by the new birth (being born again) and are accepted just as Jesus was. Evil has a cure in eternity but you can only get the medicine in this life. Don't leave Earth without Him!

Answer 5

I think so because of what flip449 said, life has to have a balance of good and evil or else there would be no point of having a heaven and hell. Also, if everything came from God, then the concept of evil has to as well.

Answer 6

Yes, God created evil and the reason he created evil was for his divine will and purpose. God allows Satan to cause havoc in the world so that he can test the faith of people that are called by Him.

6 "That they may know from the rising of the sun, and from the west, that there is none besides me. I am the Lord, and there is none else.
7 I form the light, and create darkness: I make peace, and create evil: I the LORD do all these things."
Isaiah: 45:6-7

28 "And we know that all things work together for good to them that love God, to them who are called according to his purpose."
Romans: 8:28

16 "Behold, I have created the smith that blows the coals in the fire, and that brings forth an instrument for his work, and I have created the waster [the devastator] to destroy."
Isaiah: 54:16
(The waster is Satan who is evil incarnate).

10 "To the intent that now unto the principalities and powers in heavenly places might be known by the church the manifold wisdom of God.;
11 According to the eternal purpose which he purposed in Christ Jesus our Lord.
12 In whom we have boldness and access with confidence by the faith of him."
Ephesians: 3:10-12

Peace,

Hope

Answer 7

G*d created people with the potential to do evil, or to do good. G*d gave man freewill to decide for himself what is good and/or evil and to decide which path he will follow. I see this as proof that even G*d has his (or her) faults.

Think back to the Creation story (Genesis 1). G*d created all the plants and animals and all that jazz. Then s/he decided to create man. Remember the very first thing G*d says to Adam and Eve? "Don't eat the forbidden fruit," from the tree of knowledge of good and evil. And what do Adam and Eve do? You guessed it. They ate the forbidden fruit.

I have a lot of Biblical interpretations that go against mainstream Judaism. :-)

Answer 8

No. The colors of the rainbow come from sunlight, does that make sunlight colorful? All things come from God, Humanity divides the light of Gods unconditional love into duality, Good & evil, does that make Gods love Evil? Love

Answer 9

No!
God created all things, and saw that they were all good.
God created satan and lucifer, but when they were created they were children of light.
But they became evil and evil invented all things that are not good.
So in conclusion evil invented devices of evil.

Answer 10

I heard a theory that Evil was created so that we could be tested. Our goal in life is to resist evil and become a caring person that shares unconditionaly.

Answer 11

God didn't create evil. Evil is the absence of good, darkness the absence of light and so on. Evil has no life of its own but is the absence of good. From this you may deduce that the only place that evil takes place is between your ears or you could say, in the heart. It doesn't happen in the world of nature outside of mankind.

The only creature with an intellect is likewise the only one that can choose between good and evil. We were given free choice so that we could choose to love God or not. God didn't program us or put a gun to our head so that we would love Him. Satan doesn't have a life of his own but is instead the mind of man turned away from God. That is death.

The original satan was Nimrod who was "a mighty man before the Lord." When we abandon myth, superstition and prejudice we see how sensible Gods religion really is. Religion is for the good of humanity but gets turned away from God by the clergy class.

The clergy stop people from recognizing the Messenger when he comes. It is not in the interest of their money maker to accept the next Messenger so they abuse or kill him as quickly as they are able so as to stop the truth from tipping over their selfish little power base.

The religion of Nimrod took over Christianity as it has other religions before Christianity. It is easy to see that the rituals, traditions and holidays of Nimrod were superimposed upon Christianity and it was all over by 325 AD at the council of Nicea.
Since then the Christians have been immersed in the trinity which is from Nimrod and the false belief that Jesus resurrected in the flesh as Nimrod was said to have done by his wife Semiramis who was said to be the first to give birth as a virgin. Her husband Nimrod was executed after having been duly tried in an Egyptian court for teaching people to turn away from God. She became pregnant soon after and claimed that the fruit of her womb was none other than Nimrod reincarnated. Nimrod was widely held to be god and so it was, at least in the minds of the deluded believers, that Semiramis son was the incarnation of god into a human body. Originally Nimrod was an angel who knew the plan of God but was desirous of power and craved the admiration of and power over his acolytes and worshippers more than he loved the One True God. The spirit of Nimrod, his corruption, is still active in the world today, still turned away from God and absent of the light.