God is the author and confusion in the world.........?

Question

If He created all things seen and unseen, good and evil, angels and devils, then isnt he the author of all evil too..? why cant we protest to God so he can make changes and remake the world .

Answer 1

God does not exist. If you want to unmake confusion and evil, start with your own mind.

Answer 2

I think that you might be confused by picturing good and evil as equal and opposite. I don't think that's the case. It's more helpful (and more logical) to think of evil not as the opposite of good, but as perverted good. Think of it this way - nobody does bad things because they think that they're good (except perhaps for the mentally deranged). They do it for wealth, pleasure, and a whole abundance of reasons which are in themselves good. The bad comes in when they are pursued in the wrong way.

To look at it in another way - there is only one good, and it's God (didn't Christ Himself refuse to be called good because that was the quality of his Father?). Everything that he created (especially us and the qualities with which He bestowed us) is good when it looks towards Him, and bad when it turns away from Him. God doesn't make anything turn away from Himself; he gave us free will, and if we have turned away it's our own doing.

*I'm not a religious fellow, by the way. I do have an interest in theology, though, and this is just what seems to be the most logical answer. And to the people whom I see on here everyday belittling the idea of religion: you guys are just as bad as the zealots. Religion is a part of the human experience, and just because you choose not to take part in it (which is of course entirely up to you), there's no reason to insult others and their beliefs. It's rude. You would never do that to someone in real life (if you would, I should hope that you learn a little courtesy), so why do it to someone on the internet? And so what if they do it to you? Is it not the mark of an intelligent person not to be baited by uninformed, insulting remarks?

Answer 3

The first most sensible thing I have read about 'dear god' in a long time!!

I took this question to a Pastor in church who made a right mess of answering anything close to it - they are obviously still stuck in the Stone Age themselves and that is the reason for the dwindling numbers attending church these days.

Can't speak for nobody else, but these incongruities drove me away from all that and much closer to Jesus who is an under-related player in the world unfortunately, but far more effective, undertsanding and straight as an arrow - qualities I have found always lacking when considering a 'god '????

Answer 4

Can't protest against something that don't exist!

The belief in a God is the ephemeral creation of people who don't know what to grab on to - it'll take a bit more than a 'protest', to dislodge and shake the year of lies and abuse people have suffered in the name of god (or allah, or whatever the deck you want to call it).

The cover up the Vatican and the inbreeding of the tales it has taught the unsuspecting for centuries, is laughable..where are the ones who dared to criticize the corruption? - to challenge it...?

god is not the author of the chaos in the world - stop passing the buck: it is we, simple straightforward people like us...

Answer 5

Please read the Bible.


This has a thought provoking message no matter how you believe. Does evil exist?

The university professor challenged his students with this question. Did God create everything that exists?
A student bravely replied yes, he did!"
"God created everything?" The professor asked.
"Yes, sir," the student replied.

The professor answered, "If God created everything, then God created evil since evil exists, and according to the principal that our works define who we are then God is evil."
The student became quiet before such an answer.


The professor was quite pleased with himself and boasted to the students that he had proven once more that the Christian faith was a myth.


Another student raised his hand and said, "Can I ask you a question professor?" "Of course", replied the professor. The student stood up and asked, "Professor, does cold exist?"


"What kind of question is this? Of course it exists. Have you never been cold?" The students snickered at the young man's question.


The young man replied, "In fact sir, cold does not exist. According to the laws of physics, what we consider cold is in reality the absence of heat. Everybody and every object is susceptible to study when it has or transmits energy, and heat is what makes a body or matter have or transmit energy. Absolute zero (- 460 degrees F) is the total absence of heat; all matter becomes inert and incapable of reaction at that temperature. Cold does not exist. We have created this word to describe how we feel if we have too little heat.


The student continued. "Professor, does darkness exist?"


The professor responded, "Of course it does".


The student replied, "Once again you are wrong sir, darkness does not exist either. Darkness is in reality the absence of light. Light we can study, but not darkness. In fact we can use Newton's prism to break white light into many colors and study the various wavelengths of each color. You cannot measure darkness. A simple ray of light can break into a world of darkness and illuminate it. How can you know how dark a certain space is? You measure the amount of light present. Isn't this correct? Darkness is a term used by man to describe what happens when there is no light present."


Finally the young man asked the professor. "Sir, does evil exist?"


Now uncertain, the professor responded, "Of course as I have already said. We see it every day. It is in the daily example of man's inhumanity to man. It is in the multitude of crime and violence everywhere in the world. "These manifestations are nothing else but evil."


To this the student replied, "Evil does not exist sir, or at least it does not exist unto itself. Evil is simply the absence of God. It is just like darkness and cold, a word that man has created to describe the absence of God. God did not create evil. Evil is not like faith, or love, that exist just as does light and heat. Evil is the result of what happens when man does not have God's love present in his heart. It's like the cold that comes when there is no heat or the darkness that comes when there is no light."


The professor sat down.


The young mans name --- Albert Einstein

Answer 6

God knows we need opposites to help our understanding and experience. We would not know what is light if we do not have the opposite of black. We would not know what is good if we do not know what is bad. All these opposites are given for the exercise of our will. If we choose to live by our own will (eating of the tree of knowledge of good and evil) it leads to death as determined by the choice of Adam. If we choose to live by God's will (eating from the tree of life) we will live victoriously. If there are no opposites we will know and enjoy nothing.

Answer 7

You don't seem to understand the nature or character of God. You don't truly believe that God created evil, devil and all chaos that we see and hear about in this world - do you? Well, if that your view of God, you need to see things differently - you need to have your thoughts rearranged. You need to be saved, you need to be born again. You need to see things as God sees them. Your sight is tainted with sin so that you don't see as clearly as you should.

You need the spirit of God to be the one that guides you. you get the spirit of God when you believe that Jesus Christ is the son of God, he died for your sins and God raised him from the dead. You need to confess with your mouth. It is written "If you confess with your mouth the Lord Jesus and believe with your heart that God has raised him from the dead, you shall be saved. For with the heart one believes unto righteousness and with the mouth confession is made unto salvation." This is a true statement - it is in Holy Bible. You can take God at his word. He is not a man that he should lie nor a son of man that he should change his mind.

Answer 8

According to the bible God is the creator of evil.

Answer 9

Another religious zealot. Get a lobotomy!