Did God create evil? Please tell me the truth too!?

Question

i mean He knows everything so He did know evil would come into the world.

Answer 1

Think of it this way. If you give your car keys to your best friend, or sibling--let's say this is a person you trust--and he (or she) goes and, on purpose, decides to crash the car into a building, totaling your car and killing ten people, did you cause that evil to occur? Did you create it?
Certainly not; you created a situation that could have been a really GOOD situation: your friend could have borrowed the car and picked up your little brother for you, or gone and gotten the groceries you needed.. That was what you *expected*. What happened is what is called free will. God didn't make evil anymore than you made that car crash. Instead, someone decided to do something that *they* wanted to do, selfish and without a thought about the consequences, and now we have evil and suffering. =/

Answer 2

Basically : NO. The almighty saw all that He had made and it was very good. I think we can be confident that "very good" does not include evil. The very good, however DID include free will. If individuals had not had free choice, then the very good would have been less good. Unfortunately, one of the created beings chose to not accept the proper order of things, and desired to be worshiped. Interestingly that was the highest created being, who was closest to the Almighty. Because he refused to acknowledge the rightness of the Almighty, and humble himself, he was cast out of Heaven, and became the Adversary (Satan). Then the human chose to follow in rebellion. Does the Almighty know everything? Yes, He knows everything there is to be known. He is so wise, and so powerful that nothing can surprise Him beyond His ability to cope with it perfectly. Is the future already there, to be known? I don't think so! Clearly if the Almighty says "I will do a certain thing in a thousand years" No one can stop Him. But does He know which shoes I will wear tomorrow? I don't think so. If He already knew (experienced) the future, then it would be less meaningful to everyone. He sympathizes with our sorrow, and rejoices in our rejoicing. I don't think it would be the same if He had already experienced it.

Answer 3

The answer lies in the Bible at Deuteronomy 11:13-16 and 11:26-28, 15:5-6, chapter 28 and chapter 30:15-20 where God pronounced both potential blessings and potential maledictions upon Isreal. These were prophetic words that were fulfulled. God did not pre-ordain the Isrealites to turn away from serving him and follow other gods, nor did he pre-ordain them to be faithful to the covenant they'd made. He prophetically told what would happen if they followed either course.

Answer 4

Logic dictates that is God is all knowing and the sole creator of all things that he must have been the one to create evil! There can be no way that this God didn't know exactly what every single soul would do for all eternity! Otherwise this God couldn't be ALL knowing!

Answer 5

This is a fairly prevalent belief - that God knows everything. But he does not. The scriptures make this perfectly clear. I do not mean to say that God CANNOT know everything in advance. He certainly has that ability, but he chooses to utilize it at his own discretion. Sometimes he chooses NOT to know a thing in advance.

Having said that, God did not create evil. Evil does not exist because God created it. Evil exists because free will allows one to choose - therefore one may choose the good way or the evil way.

So it would be more accurate to say that evil would not exist at all if God had not given us the freedom to choose what we will do. Now if he were to take away free will - we would be robots and nothing more.

That is the truth.

Hannah J Paul

Answer 6

Organized religion is always a problem. With or without it good people will do good things and bad people will do bad things. But for good people to do bad things, that takes organized religion.

Take the conquistadors for example. Before they arrived in the American continent, people had their own set of beliefs and worshiped a set of gods/beings. Then the conquistadors came over and declared that all the native's beliefs were an abomination and that it was the conquistador's duty to convert them or kill them.
The same happens with all the religious fanatics that insist their religion is the only true one and that everybody outside it is evil.

God is a human creation and God's personality and characteristics have been added according to people's needs or convenience.

Answer 7

when you tell your child not to lie then when he does are you responsible. You knew he would right.

This whole omnipotent, omneshents thing needs to be examined because as I read the scripture I can see that one can justify some such ideas by extrapolation but doing so to my way of thinking is twisting. Note in Ephesians there is a reference to evil and evil principalities in heaven.

Our creator when compared to us knows much more than us and sees all of what we do but perhaps not instantaneously but to say He is not subject to any limitations is most likely in error. When you flip a coin it will land on one side or the other. If you have the desire to flip and see as many heads as possible then you will necessarily have to see some tails. Goals that we want to attain sometimes means also creating some undesirable results. There is no reason to suspect that our creator is not subject to some kind of rules, perhaps physical ones perhaps mathematical, we can only deduce from what we know about Him is He wants as much good for as many of us as He can produce, working with our free will.

Answer 8

God did not create evil. He created free will in man which led to evil.

Answer 9

Heaven and hell, good and evil, dark and light
These are constants in our lives. G*D created Eden and in it was the snake who tempted eve who tempted Adam was created just as Adam and eve were. Satan was an Angel who at some point became evil hence the whole fallen angel thing!
So yes as far as I see it, G*D created evil and good.
It's hard to appreciate the good when there is no bad to make us happy for the good.
bye!

Answer 10

Good and evil don't exist in reality, at least not outside of the mind that believes in them. They are only judgments passed by the individual from their own unique perspective. What one person sees as bad or evil may seem to be the only logical thing to do from some other perspective. The ideas of both good and evil are point of view specific. This is why people like bush and bin laden are either loved or hated. Bush is seen as good by people who share his fear based thought system. Those who have a compassionate concern for all of mankind often see him as evil.

Bin laden is much the same. He is a villain in much of the western world, but he is somewhat of a celebrated pop star on the Middle East. There are T-shirt shops that sell items with his picture as though he was Jesus. It all depends on your point of view or perspective.

To sum it all up good is the name we give to people who do things that we think we like.

Evil is the name we give to people who do the things that we don’t like.

This is of course based solely on our particular point of view.

Love and blessings

Don