Problem of sin?

Question

I'm a Christian, but this is something I've been wondering...

The Bible pretty clearly lays out the difference between good and evil, and seems to state that good is better than evil. Thus, the only way into perfection would be for something to be completely good, as good is better than evil.... however, the Bible also states that God is omnipresent, so God has to be present in evil things as well... so God cannot be perfect, as he contains bad as well as good as he contains good and evil so he isn't completely good, more like half good and half bad...

Thus if God is not perfect, how can the Bible-based faiths be correct?

Qw33n, God has to be omnipresent for this reason, he is a being who is not bound by time. He is thus able to be everywhere at once...

Scriptural evidence

Psalm 139:8
If I ascend up into heaven, thou art there: if I make my bed in hell, behold, thou art there.


It basically says he is existant in an evil place!!!!!!

Answer 1

It isn't faith if you have to question it.

Answer 2

If you wanna be Christian, then go with the dude who told you that asking questions is anti-faith. You ask this one, the answer you'll most likely receive is thus: God created sin merely as a counterpoint to goodness. He isn't sin, because it's all free will. He just needed the sin factor to show you the difference and give you a choice. And it goes on and on and on. The Bible is nothing but a poorly written narrative. Good luck trying to find answers to things that are true questions. Too much has been added, taken away. Believe or don't. And besides, once a man writes for a god, it is no longer correct. The truth of a god coming from the mouth of a man- passion and prejudice only. So, essentially, every faith is correct- faith is only what you believe. Not what is concrete, or completely connected. Schizophrenics believe they are helicopters. Scientologists . . . well. Rules apply here.

Answer 3

Honestly, not ALL of the Bible was written with God's intentions in mind. Some of it was man-made having been written by man.

But, in the case of God and evil, here's a quote from another person that I love dearly:

{{At a certain college there was a professor with a reputation for being tough on Christians. At the first class, every semester, he asked if anyone was a Christian and
proceeded to degrade them and to mock their statement of faith. One semester, he asked the question and a young man raised his hand.

The professor asked, "Did God make everything young man?" He replied "Yes sir he did!" The professor responded,! "IF God made everything, then he made evil"
The student didn't have a response and the professor was happy to once again prove the Christian faith to be a myth.

Then another man raised his hand and asked, "May I ask you something,sir?" "Yes, you may," responded the professor.

The young man stood up and said, "Sir, is there such a thing as cold?" Of course there is, what kind of a question is that? Haven't you ever been cold?" The young man replied, "Actually, sir, cold doesn't exist. What we consider to be cold, is really an absence of heat. Absolute zero is when there is absolutely no heat, but cold does not really exist. We have only created that term to describe how we feel when heat is not there."

The young man continued, Sir, is there such a thing as dark?" Once again the professor responded, "Of course there is."And once again, the student replied, "Actually, sir, darkness does not exist. Darkness is really only the absence of light. Darkness is only a term developed to describe what happens when there is no light present."

Finally, the young man asked, "Sir, is there such a thing as evil?"The professor responded, "Of course, we have rapes, murders and violence everywhere in the world, Those things are evil." The student replied, "Actually, sir, evil does not exist. Evil is simply the ABSENCE of God. Evil is a term developed to describe the absence of God. God did not create evil. It isn't like truth, or love which exist as virtues like heat or light. Evil is simply the state where God is not present, like cold without heat, or darkness without light."

The professor had nothing to say................ Neither do you!

Be full of Christ today, there is no room for anything else . . }}

-jantoo1

Answer 4

St. Augustine confronts this as well. He comes to the conclusion that as God is in everything, everything partakes in God and the divine in some way, and evil is not anything in itself, but a deficiency of that presence. The more something partakes in the presence of the divine, the "better" it is. Similarly, you cannot measure darkness, or cold, you can only measure how much light is in something, or how much heat is in it. The problem I have with that however, is that if this is true, then nothing can exist that is purely evil, so either God exists in Hell as well, or Hell is just non-existence, which I don't find much of a punishment. How can you suffer a punishment if you don't exist?

Answer 5

God is good.

Omnipresence expresses how God is in all places at all times. King David said, "even if I make my bed in hell thou art there." Omni means all. God's omnipresence paralells with His immensity. Immensity applied to God, means that God cannot be limited by space and is in fact beyond space. Space is the area where physical reality (matter) and being (energy) exist, and to that degree is limited. Where space ends, God still persists infinitely beyond all limits. God is also Omniscient and Omnipotent. All knowing and All Powerful

God can "depart" from a place or a person. When people, churches, business, cities, governments, habitually sin against God, He can and does depart, which allows evil to run it's circuit freely. God is not evil but there is a possibility of evil in all things on the earth. There's a difference from God being present and dwelling in a place. We have to understand that He is not like man, he's not of the flesh, but of the spirit. He can be in a place (see and have a knowledge of) and not dwell (rest, abide, cover) there.

In my studying I have come to see it like this. All things come from God, but all things are not of him. For instance Satan was made by God, thus he comes from Him, but he's not of Him. If he were of God he would be like God. Since he comes from God then he would not exist if it were not for God His creator.

Answer 6

Think about something for a minute who wrote the bible did god write it or did a few Men write it I always wonder why people interpret it so strictly if it was written by men who they have said god thinks are flawed I think that the actual word of god is a mystery and the bible is propaganda used to control society.
I believe the bible is flawed because god says people are equal however people such as women and people of different races were not allowed to input on it tells you that it's is not the intention of god but of man dues to control other men

Answer 7

Good ,bad, sin and evil are all relative terms. They change as your point of view changes. So you must first define your terms. When you do that you will see what is good, bad, sin and evil.

The Hebrew faith has no evil or a creature called the devil. What you would call evil, is considered a test by God of man. If you have many troubles in life, God has got it for you. He tests you unremittingly. The Hebrew faith is the purest form of monotheism. I am not a religious person.

Answer 8

ok, what about all of the plagues he cast or the flood he created to wipe out the whole planet with the exception of noah and the animals? yes it seems pretty evil to me... but, asuming everything in the bible is true and all of those events occured as said, then seemily horrible things god has done, is all for the greater good. Think big picture.

Answer 9

Actually if you do a keyword search in online Bibles (check out www.biblegateway.com), the word "omnipresent" isn't even in the Bible. You might not want to base a Biblical theology on the definition of a word that doesn't even exist in the Bible.

Answer 10

Theists may argue that god is not omnipresent, and the lack enables sin. But my view is that the concept is void, as there is no reason to suppose the existence of god, let alone what opinions such an entity might have of human activities.

Answer 11

Dohh! God is present everywhere, but is transcendent as well.

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