Why did an All-Loving God create Evil?

Question

alright, christians. do your magic.

Answer 1

He didn't create evil, he gave us FREE WILL. what you do with your life is up to you. You might also want to ask Jews, Muslims, Hindus, etc. Your disdain for Christians doesn't prove your atheism, only your intolerance.

Answer 2

I LOVE your attitude...it's so kindly. What will you do, take
out your six-guns and shoot us down if we answer wrong?
This is going to be a 'thumbs down" because you are simply
too pompous.

If you would read the Bible, and try to understand it--God DID NOT CREATE EVIL! It is impossible for Him to create anything
'bad. He only creates good. Take one o out and what do you
have? God is altogether Good, there is no evil in Him,nor
can there ever be. I will not tell you whole story of how evil
came about. It was not the apple and the garden, etc. etc.
It was a very sinister plot by the master of the underworld,
who was by the way, One of the 3 archangels , created by
God to be Holy and Righteous. I won't tell you the story about
how he became the devil. You will need to find that out yourself.

Answer 3

Well, I don't know, if I were to refer to Satan's bible, it says that God did not create Satan. They were already there at the beginning. Good and Evil, Light and Darkness. Matter & Dark Matter.

I note that Satan is not destroyed but only made to suffer for eternity.

I believe God is a spirit. Which is probably an energy form. Energy cannot be destroyed or created, it is transferred from one to another.

God said He is light. And scientists have shown that dark matter exists just as extensively perhaps much more. Light is energy (if you know physics) and can be converted into matter.

That's probably how man was made. A conversion of energy into matter during creation.

Answer 4

1 john 4:8 tells us that God is love; therefore he can not create or be held accountable for someone else’s actions.
Satan has been misleading mankind into thinking that God created Satan when in fact Satan was a beautiful spirit creature who desired the worship that Adam and Eve gave to Jehovah.
First lie, first sin and first slander were told there in the Garden of Eden, up Jehovah threw his son, Christ Jesus, provided us with a ransom and now all of mankind can; if they chose too, have a good relationship with Jehovah.

Answer 5

God did NOT create Evil. He created Free Will. Lucifer and Humans chose to abuse it, setting evil in progress.

BIG DIFFERENCE.

Your question denotes a conscious act of an uncaring, thoughtless god.

My answer says, God did not create evil. He merely allowed us the ability to abuse ourselves by choosing to believe Satan over HIM in the Garden of Eden. And that is basically what happened.

Satan told Eve, "I tell you today, YOU WILL NOT DIE." Instead of believing God, she believed HER NEW GOD, SATAN. By putting him above God, she put herself and then Adam did too, on a path of destruction and sin. This is what our ancestors chose for us, not God.

Answer 6

When god created the garden of Eden, it was to last forever. Obviously there was to be no evil. Evil was not even a word. The serpent revealed himself and hence the evil we have today, for a short time. God created Lucifer, hence he created evil. did you like my magic?

Answer 7

You all use the same excuse "god gave us free-will". All that really says to me is that man's ego consciousness is the source of evil while his moral consciousness is the source of good. Satan = ego-self = selfish will = bad choices; God = true-self = spiritual will = good choices.

Answer 8

God did not create evil. God created Lucifer, and Lucifer had free will. He used it to become evil.

Answer 9

"Evil," regardless of how it is defined, must be the result of free will. Without the free will to commit acts others define as evil (or even as God defines as evil) we would be without the capacity to act with autonomy.

For the record, I am no Christian.

Answer 10

God gave humanity free will.
We chose the evil over God.