In the beginning, Adam and Eve were pure, right? Since he created everything and knows everything, why did he created the evil snake? Since Adam and Eve did not know evil, why did he punish them? Isn't it kind of like entrapment? He created the apple, and created the evil serpent, and places them with Adam and Eve, basically knowing that this Will happening because he is all powerful and knowing!!??
2007-05-01 08:10:16 · 20 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
I mean, if you have a four year old kid, and you leave him/her with a full grown serial murderer rapist and walk away, what do you think will happen to your kid?
2007-05-01 08:13:33 · update #1
Isaiah 45 7I form the light, and create darkness: I make peace,
and create evil: I the LORD do all these things.
It seems the Jewish God created evil for his own amusement.
2007-05-01 08:16:35 · answer #1 · answered by huffyb 6 · 3⤊ 0⤋
Evil=Live
2007-05-01 08:13:43 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
The father of evil is the Devil
God cannot go against His own nature
One of many gifts of God is freewill but many abuse that freedom to do what they want to do including disobedience which is what Adam and Eve were punished for
Side note: it was the eating of the fruit no apple is mentioned in sacred scripture
2007-05-01 08:18:19 · answer #3 · answered by Gods child 6 · 0⤊ 2⤋
Righto, he did know that it would happen. But who wants to be a God that has people worship him because they have to? Putting the apple, serpent, and tree in the garden gave Adam and Eve free will to make a choice. If God wouldn't have given them this opportunity, them and everyone thereafter would have worshipped God not by choice, but by plan. :) You could picture it like creating robots to worship you, instead of creating a people that worship you out of choice. Make sense?
2007-05-01 08:26:09 · answer #4 · answered by SUNSHINE 2 · 0⤊ 2⤋
God created the potential for evil in that He created a world of free will. Without free will, love is not possible. But with free will, evil is.
2007-05-01 08:19:37 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 2⤋
God did not punish Adam and Eve because they knew evil. He punished them because they broke the law against eating the fruit. Do we not punish lawbreakers by sending them to jail, and imposing other sanctions, like fines?
God did not create an evil snake. God created Lucifer, who was God's choirmaster. Lucifer later turned his own heart against God. It wasn't God's fault that Lucifer turned against Him. Lucifer coaxed Eve to eat the fruit because he wanted to get back at God, and chose to do it by hurting God's creation.
Is it God's fault if we turn against Him? Yet God made a way for all of us to come back to Him forgiven and blessed. Have you taken steps to get right with God?
2007-05-01 08:20:50 · answer #6 · answered by Steve Husting 4 · 0⤊ 2⤋
Who is behind all evil?
http://www.watchtower.org/library/w/2002/10/15/article_02.htm
Everything Jehovah created was perfect. A rebellious angel started evil.
Jesus will do away with evil !!!
http://www.watchtower.org/e/20050915/article_01.htm
2007-05-01 08:17:58 · answer #7 · answered by Jason W 4 · 0⤊ 2⤋
God is imaginary.
But the Bible God is responsible for evil. Read Isaiah. God himself admits that he created evil.
The bible is Xians worst enemy.... FTW!
2007-05-01 09:10:04 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
god made evil to make us realise the importance of goodness in the world
had evil not been created everyone would have taken god as granted
2007-05-01 08:19:08 · answer #9 · answered by iziaee 2 · 0⤊ 2⤋
I think it's like Chris Hansen on To Catch A Preditor...
Although it seems like a lot of touble for a God who knows you better than you know yourself.
2007-05-01 08:15:47 · answer #10 · answered by Eleventy 6 · 0⤊ 1⤋