If god is all knowing / all seeing / all powerful as we are led to believe, then surely the moment he created every thing in the universe, he would have known his actions would directly or indirectly lead to the creation of EVIL.
By his own actions of creating the angels who would start a war and rebel, only to be condemned to the nearly created HELL, and would later be responsible for bringing EVIL, PAIN and SUFFERING to Earth... God by being omniscient / omnipresent would have known this would happen and therefor been part of his overall plan.
So did God intend to create evil?
2007-01-24 06:33:31 · 9 answers · asked by Pitchy 5 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
yes...
Isaiah 45:7
I form the light, and create darkness: I make peace, and create evil: I the LORD do all these things.
2007-01-24 06:41:48 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
God made the rules and if they were not followed there was punishment. there was a fallen angel who disobeyed God and was cast into hell. There has been evil in the world ever since the devil tempted Eve and she sinned and got Adam to also sin. When God created man, Man was given a brain to think with and know right from wrong. We all have brains to make up our own minds wether to sin or not.Don't blame God for the sins of mankind!
2007-01-24 14:53:23 · answer #2 · answered by Gerry 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Certainly God created the possibility of evil. The creation of music created the possibility of bad music. The creation of Hamlet created the possibility of bad performances of Hamlet and bad parodies of Hamlet. The creation of a world that is good created the possibility for misuse of all that is good and making it evil. And of course, so the story goes, God created human beings and gave them free will. Free will is a meaningless gift if there is nothing to choose.
2007-01-24 14:51:12 · answer #3 · answered by Lleh 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
God did not create evil. Man does. For every blessing that God gives, man creates the opposite curse. The root of evil is fear. Fear is the root cause of all negative emotions-anger, jealousy, greed, hatred. and so forth. Almost always the fear is caused by a (sometimes hidden) notion of loss of love or respect
Evil is the absence of God's love. One of the most challening purposes of our lifetimes is to learn to conquer fear with God's Love
2007-01-24 16:53:23 · answer #4 · answered by Diogenes 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
God did not create evil. Evil is merely the absence of good. Just the same as darkness is the absence of light. "Evil" is just the absence of God.
2007-01-24 14:42:50 · answer #5 · answered by laura michelle 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
according to the Bible god he did.
Isa 45:7 I form the light, and create darkness: I make peace, and create evil: I the LORD do all these [things].
2007-01-24 14:43:05 · answer #6 · answered by nebtet 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Evil could only exist if a God decided it must.
So Evil is God's fault.
Very true.
It's all Gods Fault.
2007-01-24 14:45:48 · answer #7 · answered by whatotherway 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
this is somthing like the trinity we cannot understand.
Does that mean because we cannot with or finite minds understand something mean we should not believe it when there is so much that we can understand that makes so much sense?
2007-01-24 14:39:10 · answer #8 · answered by Proverbs 1:7 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
he let man create his own evil, we are giving a choice before we die
2007-01-24 14:43:59 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋