God send evil to do bad things,then he come out and save us,to make us believe him.
2007-04-20 17:00:59 · 36 answers · asked by Didie C 1 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
That sounds silly. God didn't create evil, he allowed free will. He allowed creatures to choose whether or not they will be good or evil.
2007-04-20 17:03:14 · answer #1 · answered by jon s 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
God created man... man has free will...
man can do evil things....
but that doesn't mean God wants evil to be the choice.
Genesis 2:9 And the LORD God made all kinds of trees grow out of the ground--trees that were pleasing to the eye and good for food. In the middle of the garden were the tree of life and the tree of the knowledge of good and evil.
2007-04-20 17:07:34 · answer #2 · answered by guppy137 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
God did not and can not create evil. God is pure Goodness, pure Truth and pure Love. Evil is the antithesis of goodness, truth and love. To suggest that God created evil is plainly and simply blasphemy. Don't blame God for the evil that man does (and woman too). He ALLOWS evil to exist so that a greater good may come out of it (salvation, as you mention). But He is in no way the Author or Source of evil.
2007-04-21 08:54:24 · answer #3 · answered by uiogdpm 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The potential for love out weighs the existence of evil, especially if evil can only exist for a time. Evil is a side effect of love. Suffering and death are a side effect of evil (Romans 5:12). God says in His Bible that this side effect is only for a time. Evil serves the limited purpose of establishing real love relationships between creation and the Creator, and evil will be done away with after that purpose is achieved. "And the world passes away, and the lust thereof: but he that does the will of God abides forever" (I John 2:17).
2007-04-20 17:06:44 · answer #4 · answered by Czech Chick 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I don't think so. God made man "and it was good." Man had a relationship with God before the Fall and didn't need bad things to make him believe in God. Anyway, I guess I'd like you to elaborate on your premise. How would evil make us believe in God.
God uses evil to bring about good, but if there was only good He wouldn't need to do this. There wouldn't be unbelief because we'd accept what is plain to see.
2007-04-20 17:08:51 · answer #5 · answered by rcpeabody1 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
God created no evil. Most evil is trying to attain Godly things using un Godly methods.
This is a result of the freewill given to mankind. God created Satan that is true but the evil came when satan rebelled against God.
2007-04-20 17:07:40 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Satan is evil. God created Satan and he was God's favorite angel until he turned evil. So in a sense God did create evil. But I don't believe God created evil so that we would worship him.
2007-04-20 17:04:39 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
That is not true, god would never send evil to hurt his own creations; which is Us and Earth. That evil comes from other people, God does not control them and those people are the ones that started it. We believe god because of the stuff he did for us, not the stuff he sends down and stops; again, God would never do that.
2007-04-20 17:07:09 · answer #8 · answered by Timothy 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Since the argument from evil is the most predominant reason people have for NOT believing in God, I doubt God created evil so that people WOULD believe in him.
2007-04-20 17:03:06 · answer #9 · answered by Jonathan 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
God does not want worship, he wants love, he wants to be part of your life and part of your family. Does a man want worship from his child? of course not. He made us, he wants us to go out there and make ourselves happy, that is what makes him a success, when we succeed. When we do this, we are most likely to be pleased in him and to praise him for making us. God will not save us from evil, that is our job neither does he make evil. Evil made itself, it evolved from good in rebellion or you could put it the other way, good evolved from evil.
2007-04-20 17:09:21 · answer #10 · answered by teamjesus_ca 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋