How can the source of evil be the devil if he's just another creation from God?
2007-04-21 05:58:33 · 18 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
That's one heavy question......Seriously, I was trying to find an answer for you (within myself) but I can't find one.
Man, that's some deep thinking..
OkAy! I've come up with an answer!
Since we figure that God has created this evil source known as the devil just as God created all good............... it has come to my conclusion that God is also evil and/or must have a nice sense of humor in this whole essence of creation; that all mankind might be enticed to to fail at some point in life continually.
Now, how must we become acceptable into this Paradise with living among the temptations of evil and sin that he (GOD "when it comes down to it" ) created?
That is the question. It is like the saying, "we are damned if we do, damned if we don't ".
2007-04-21 06:03:31 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
At first it might seem that if God created all things then evil must have been created by God. However, there is an assumption here that needs to be cleared up. Evil is not a "thing" - like a rock or electricity. You can't have a jar of evil! Rather, evil is something that occurs, like running. Evil has no existence of its own - it is really a lack in a good thing. For example, holes are real but they only exist in something else. We call the absence of dirt a hole - but it cannot be separated from the dirt. So when God created, it is true that all that existed was good. One of the good things that God made was creatures who had the freedom to choose good. In order to have a real choice, God had to allow there to be something besides good to choose. So God allowed these free angels and humans to choose good or non-good (evil). When a bad relationship exists between two good things we call that evil, but it does not become a "thing" that required God to create it.
2007-04-21 16:54:04 · answer #2 · answered by Freedom 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Well if you choos to think of it this way. First of all the repsentation of good & evil is a purely human point of vew. Here is my proof man the species is bynockluair in natuer this means that we see things in oppsets, hot & could, good & evil, if there was no day what would night be?God the suprime daiyite is unitey, the unity that verry few can under stand.
the bible if you choose to belive says that only man has the gift of free will," the chois" so an angel could never make a disition like that. this said , good & evil are illustions of man contray to what we have benn taught. this is the law of polarity
& as the buddest sees it narvina / heavin, are an indifrance to
this law. JC" jesus the kingdom of the farther is at hand & man dose not see it
2007-04-21 15:07:21 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
the source of evil does come from the devil but God is the creator of it, but the knowledge was meant for animal, Genesis 3:22. It comes from God, for God is God to know knowledge of good and evil. But God is very wise and is all righteous. It's hard to explain, but devil is all evil, cuss he hates God and hates all that God hates. He knows we r not in Gods image, but r in the image of a animal. That is why God calls the devil the beast. All the devil really does is take knowledge from the animals and put it on us. This happened when the devil tricked Adam and eve with the tree. That is why God says seek ye first the kingdom of God, and ALL my righteousness. We r suppose to search this life for God, to learn to walk in holiness and God's righteousness. This is done by Romain's 3:10-18. We need to seek God's face.
2007-04-21 13:13:27 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
Because our God created all with a free choice , a free will to do as they choose, not to be a robot The devil had free choice, just like we do. BUt, he chose to do evil. This is where sin comes in. He had PRIDE, which is a sin, and wanted to be top dog, over God and running everything. Note that pride is a sin. God gives us a list of to dos and not to dos, for our own protection. He knows what the devil will try to get us to do, or stop doing, and he is very wiley about it all. Only those in the full protection of God can be held onto and not be drawn to sin. and we can only do that by loving God enough to obey Him. We all have the free choice to do good or evil, just depends on who we listen to.. God or the devil.
2007-04-21 13:06:06 · answer #5 · answered by full gospel shirley 6 · 1⤊ 2⤋
The devil is a man made so called evil force,made up by the church in the middle ages to con the people into christianity.........along with their money.
2007-04-21 15:41:57 · answer #6 · answered by cheddar 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
He's used to be an angel created by God. Lucifer was actually the wisest angel in all the Universe. But he rebelled from God because he wanted to be better than God. This just shows that God is capable of surpassing evil anyways. Why this happened, we may never know though.
2007-04-21 13:04:30 · answer #7 · answered by Ironic Destiny 3 · 1⤊ 2⤋
"Lucifer" was created by God as a very beautiful and very intelligent Angel gone bad, very bad. So bad he caused other angels to follow him. Jealousy caused him to rebell. But it did not begin with him, sin, evil works began with the serpent in the garden of eden.
2007-04-22 21:56:32 · answer #8 · answered by SuperSkinny 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Its like a murderer wasnt born that way, you cant blame his mother can you? He turned into a murderer as an adult, he chose to ignore his upbringing. I imagine that with satan its the same sort of thing. When he was made he was good but turned evil just like the murderer decided to kill.
2007-04-21 14:20:27 · answer #9 · answered by pink.jazzz 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
God never created anything evil.
The devil was an angel created by God, be the angel chose not to follow God.
2007-04-21 13:21:49 · answer #10 · answered by Abdul 5 · 0⤊ 2⤋