Did God create evil? Does darkness and evil have real and indepent existence?

Question

If darkness has a reality of it's own , it should be able to exist in the presence of light. Evil connotates absence of good and thus has no reality of its own. see verse 45:6 below.

45:5 I am the LORD, and there is none else, there is no God beside me: I girded thee, though thou hast not known me: 45:6 That they may know from the rising of the sun, and from the west, that there is none beside me. I am the LORD, and there is none else.

45:7 I form the light, and create darkness: I make peace, and create evil: I the LORD do all these things.

(King James Bible, Isaiah)

Answer 1

God’s enemies will use scripture as Satan did to tempt Christ.
They will misquote, twist or askew the truth for their agenda.
For example, Isaiah 45:7 to say God created evil.

Isaiah 45:7 I form the light, and create darkness: I make peace, and create evil: I the LORD do all these things.

A deeper study will always manifest truth.

(create) “bara” in the Hebrew.
The Hebrew Poel Participle of the verb “bara” which, with “evil”, requires the rendering “bring about”.

(evil) “ra, raah” in the Hebrew, is never rendered “sin”.
God brings calamity about as the inevitable consequence of sin.
It is rendered “calamity”.

God brings about calamity because of sin.

Whenever there are so-called contradictions of God’s Word, a deeper study is always required.
This requires time and effort of the individual to delve into the truth of God’s Word.
Also, use your brain and think about it.
God cannot create true love.
True love will only manifest in a being of freewill.
In like manner God cannot create evil or righteousness, but will only manifest in beings of freewill.

Answer 2

the worldwide isn't the way that God created it and due to that, all are liable to the impacts of sin interior the worldwide. Why does one guy or woman go through and yet another does not? Why do catastrophes take place to a pair and no others? it is simply by fact sin is interior the worldwide. yet there'll come an afternoon while the Lord will return and cleanse this worldwide of all sin and all suffering. as for Isaiah forty 5:7 ? interior the previous English Tounge of 1611, The previous English was conscious Evil of their King James Translation as a fashion of descibing Calamaity, alongside with disease, Tornadoes, Storms, Earthquakes,, previous English human beings used the be conscious evil to describe organic failures

Answer 3

If God creates evil, it certainly sheds doubt on the idea as being omnibenevolent.

however your statement is contradictory. Evil has an existence independent of good, since it is created by God.

It would also seem that good and evil have an independent existence from God. That is to say things are not good or evil because God says they are. God knows if things are good and evil even before he creates them.

There is a strong argument that God cannot be omniscient
omnipotent and omnibenevolent. He has to pick two.

Answer 4

God does not create evil. Only perfection and goodness can come from God. Evil was born when He was rejected, Satan being the author of this.

These scriptures are showing God speaking to Cyrus, showing him that He is the Lord and creator, master of all things, so that Cyrus will know the He is Lord.

Answer 5

The evil in that quote could mean somethign like a catastrophe... which God could use for good...
it will be semantical and to an extend this is the
super lapsarian / infra lapsarian debate

I think God made a totally good world, but a changeable one, one that could become corrupt and fell

evil is a corruption of good and a corruption of the totally good creation, not existing beforehand

did God cause that... well... now you are back to the super lapsarian/ infra lapsarian debate... to an extent semantical to an extent not
Did god indirectly cause evil, because he allowed it and stepped back or did he more directly cause it....

Answer 6

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

Answer 7

I think God didn't create evil, I think he created man with the option to be evil and He wanted to see if man would use it.

Answer 8

There is duality to all things, light/dark, male/female, happiness/pain. Without their counterparts being what they are not, they would cease to exist.

Existance and non-existance are also in duality with eachother, yet they are simultaneously the same (weird huh?).

I'm with Don on this one

vVv

Answer 9

Satan IS the darkness, AND the evil one who has has come to destroy your every happiness.
He(satan) doesn't WANT you content, and joyful, and happy.
God does.