If you have the ability to make everyone good, WHY would you make anyone bad?

Question

What kinda sicko malevolent creator plays games like that with living things (as opposed to movie scripts)?

um, this was in regards to a deity, not a mortal ... so according to all mortals' accounts of deities, yes, they would have control over every single detail of every thing!

do I need to type slower?

your deity IS the rule maker, so their rules could be ANYTHING they wanted to be ... why on earth would you envision their ability with human limitations? "can't have one without the other" (for example) is a HUMAN notion

SmartyPants:
I think you are right
*throws hands up in anguish*

Stop parrotting, and think for a second free-willers! Free will came from ... the rule maker, and the rule maker coulda made that rule (as well as the law of entropy) ANYTHING he wanted it to be!

Answer 1

no one has control over any one we all have free will to do as we choose. That would be like blaming ur parents for a mistake that u choose to do on ur own.

Answer 2

This question bothered me for a long, long time too. You may find this weird but here is what I found out, if you have a minute or two.

The first thing to understand is that our classification of good and bad has nothing to do with God. It is just that we live in a world of duality where we only understand something by comparing it with the opposite.

The second is that God made us in His image so that we could be useful to Him. Initially we were living with Him. And we were having a good time, so good in fact that we were getting selfish, thinking only of ourselves instead of one another; love was a subject that hardly existed in our minds.

So He decided the best thing was to send us to school, where we would learn BY EXPERIENCE the meaning of LOVE. The lower worlds (like the physical world, exemplified by earth) were then created. The principal of the school (sometimes called Satan) has dominion over the school, and also has strict instructions not let any pupil graduate unless he has thoroughly mastered the subject of love. It is only then he (pupil) can come back home to God.

So we keep repeating classes and courses until we get it right, as an accurate record of our actions are kept. Meanwhile, most of us learn by trial and error, and in the process, we get the opportunity to go through all experiences imaginable.

Don't forget, the idea is to learn by experience, not learn by studying books or something, because we already KNEW even before coming to school. What we lacked was experience. There is a big difference between knowledge and experience. For example, you may get a fairly accurate picture of some exotic food from what I tell you, but until you actually taste it, your knowledge of it will never complete. And it does not help if you have not tasted anything before then that you can compare the food with.

Eventually, after repeating classes so many times, we get tired and start asking, "Is there not a better way?" This is the point we realize we have done these before, we have passed here before. And suddenly we realize there had been some teachers among us all the while, only we were not ripe enough to listen to them earlier. Thereafter, we have the opportunity to progress more rapidly through the remaining courses.

In conclusion, we are all on a homeward journey back to God, and 'bad' people are those who have not had enough experiences to realize that there are better ways to get back home.

Think about it.

Answer 3

Why do people blame God? Man himself chose to sin. Adam disobeyed God and ate the fruit from the tree that he was warned would open his eyes to sin and cause him to die. We inherited that sinful nature because of Adam's disobedience.

God didn't make robots or puppets. He made us with a free will so that we could choose whether to love Him or not.

God himself, in the form of the man, Jesus, God's only begotten Son, came to the earth and became the sacrifice for us for the sins that we commit. What greater love than to lay down His life for us?

Acceptance of Jesus, as your Lord and Savior and repentance which means to turn away from your sins, is the way to have your sins forgiven and to have the free gift of eternal live.

Answer 4

HEY, wouldn't it be great if everyone was good? But 'humans' have free will, free speech and independent thought. Some of them, their 'brains' are working differently, some a sociopaths, some are just moronic and stupid. So, it is up to the 'human' to be good or bad, depending on a moral code, that is taught, handed down, religious or non religious. Sadly over the centuries its all become a terrible mess. The 'human' has lost its way and the balance between 'good' and 'bad' has become somewhat blurred.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/satan......
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/religion......
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/gods..........
http://www.godandscience.org/apologetics...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/bible.........
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/moral_code#...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/god...
http://joshuakane.diaryland.com/older.ht...

Answer 5

how i understand your question and think of an answer to the question that i believe you are asking i would say that if you were the creator wouldn't you want only the creations which are pure of heart and willing to do what is righteous. any creations can simply exist but if you give them free-will the ones which obey you will please you most. i guess it's kinda like if something leaves then comes back to you then it was yours all along... either way we are creations it's just a matter of what type of creation you want to be.

Answer 6

This is one of those question asked by someone who wants God to be the ultimate baby sitter.

Since I (mankind) want to hurt myself and others, God is at fault for not stopping me from hurting myself and others. It's his responsibility, not mine.

Grow up. He doesn't owe you. He doesn't owe us.

The sicko malevolent behavior you refer to is man's, and all the while man blames God, like every two-bit criminal and junkie the world over.

Make you bad? You made yourself what you are. You've chosen where you are. I have been amazed at how strong the human tendency is to hide their own part in their self-destruction is.

This is a classic example of the mentality involved.

Repeat: God does not owe you. He gave us a world.

We screwed it up.

What have you done to make it better? This?

Answer 7

it's the age old question... if there were no demons would there be angels?

how could you tell? my personal thought on the meaning of life is for us to suffer. We need to understand pain and anguish, humor, love, and loss all combined. that way when we make the correct choices at get to heaven (if we made the right choices and beliefs) that we will be able to fathom how great / wonderful it is and appreciate it that much more.

Answer 8

Jehovah god did not make anything bad Satan had a wrong thought in his mind that he did not remove and it sunk into his heart therefore he told the first lie to Adam and eve and they went along with it perfection mean that they know with there perfect minds what to do they had a choice(free will nobody is forced to serve god). they just chose other wise because the believed they could be like god. we are designed to look to Jehovah for guidance even Jesus Christ a (perfect man) looked to his Heavenly father Jehovah remember how many times he prayed to Jehovah because he needed assistance especially when Satan was trying to tempt him.

Answer 9

Okay, I am myself an Atheist but this question strikes me as slightly odd for a couple of reasons. Not that I completely disagree but think of it this way.

If you could force everyone to be a good person, would that make you a good person?

Answer 10

god doesn't make anyone good or bad with the gift of life he also gave us free will which is the right o choose he made us in his image so that we should live like his children not his slaves only slaves have no choices in life

Answer 11

I doubt God can make anyone good or bad. I think he would like us to CHOOSE good ourselves. This is how I view it: if you know a full proof plan on making the person you most adore love you back, would you want to use the love potion or would you prefer for them to love you of their own accord? We make the choice to become bad. No matter how bad our childhood has been, there comes a time when we become adults and we can distiguish between bad and good actions. We are responsible for there, and come time when we face God, we would have to answer for these.