"Is God willing to prevent evil, but not able? Then he is not omnipotent.
Is he able, but not willing? Then he is malevolent.
Is he both able and willing? Then whence cometh evil?
Is he neither able nor willing? Then why call him God?"
- Epicurus
2007-01-07 09:55:10 · 16 answers · asked by Shalabra 3 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Paulywog--Everything is not perfect yet I still do not worship god
2007-01-07 09:59:25 · update #1
Haha according to spiritual down there I'm evil, that gives me a giggle--
God prevents evil from entering Heaven, so most of your personality will be rejected. The pain in life did not awakin your conscience.
2007-01-07 10:05:21 · update #2
Good point! But the Christians will start bashing you with scripture pretty soon. Maybe even say you're going to hell. Oh well!
-Seeker
2007-01-07 09:58:32 · answer #1 · answered by Seeker 3 · 3⤊ 0⤋
God created people to have a relationship with Him, but for that to mean anything there has to be a possibility to not do so. God gave us that possibility and so we have the choice to do evil. If He were to prevent all evil then He would turn us all into robots. Our choice be mindless being or make choices and put up with the ones that other people we make, even if we don't like them or they are not good for us.
And as for the question whence cometh evil he did not make evil he just made the possibility to do evil and man chooses to excecise that possibility. Water allows us to drink and bathe, it also allows us to drown people, it's just the choice of how you use it.
2007-01-07 18:10:13 · answer #2 · answered by David 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋
He is able and willing but it seems like He is letting all the evil go on but He has an appointed time to settle all these issues. Evil exists because God made the angel Lucifer so mighty and powerful that Lucifer thought He could be God and went to war with God and God cast Lucifer and the angels that sided with out of Heaven. They were eternally damned and Lucifer became Satan-God's enemy and those angels became demons and they will all get their just due in God's timing not ours.
2007-01-07 18:10:08 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
God can do anything He wants. Its not about not being able to. We were born with free will- we know what is right and wrong and it is our choice to chose which path we will take. There is evil in this world, but God gave us a way into the light through His son Jesus. In the end, He will destroy the devil and there will be no evil. It will be your choice. If you read your bible, you will see that in the beginning, everything was perfect and no evil existed, so He intended the world to be perfect but Satan wouldn't have it and we allowed Satan in the garden to ruin God's perfect plan. That is why He sent Jesus. We as humans are the problem, not God.
2007-01-07 18:03:49 · answer #4 · answered by Angela F 5 · 1⤊ 2⤋
God prevents evil from entering Heaven, so most of your personality will be rejected. The pain in life did not awakin your conscience.
2007-01-07 18:02:10 · answer #5 · answered by spir_i_tual 6 · 0⤊ 3⤋
god is able to do everything and is omnipotent. you know why he doen't do it ... well if he did then everyone would be safe and happy. there is no way that he can test us in this world if we are all safe and happy. these dangers and destructions in our life are tests - everything is a test - you either fail or pass and it then gets recorded. this life is meant to be hard god tells us this in the holy books. death, danger its all for a reason! for your own good to test how strong you are in ure faith how far u will go to never give up. how kind you are to the poor.
2007-01-07 18:10:56 · answer #6 · answered by miz 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Is he able, but not willing? Then he is malevolent
We must define what evil is. Evil is the abscence of god.
Man creates society and homes without God and its man who creates evil.
-Johnson
2007-01-07 18:09:07 · answer #7 · answered by TULSA 4 · 0⤊ 2⤋
Omnipotence is an oxymoron. A logical impossibility. And thus casts doubt on all the other things claimed for that scam.
2007-01-07 18:00:14 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 1⤋
He sent his own son into the world through the power of the Holy Spirit, he died to save us from the evil that is sin, and in the end God will come and judge us accordingly, we ourselves can prevent evil by not giving into it.
2007-01-07 18:00:05 · answer #9 · answered by flyer_rt_52 2 · 0⤊ 3⤋
God could MAKE all things pretty, and do away with all evil, and one day he will, but for now he gives us as humans the choice whom we are to serve, and when we serve sin, then there is evil..
God is all omnipotent. !! No question !!
2007-01-07 18:01:29 · answer #10 · answered by Lorene 4 · 2⤊ 2⤋