How is evil not God's fault...?

Question

I don't get these people. They say "Evil is not God's fault, it's the Devils fault." Then in the next breath they will say that "God is the creator of all things." If God created everything, then the Devil definitaly fits within the scope of everything. Therefore, the Devils existence is not the Devils fault, it's God fault, being that God created the Devil. And if God is all knowing, he would have known that the Devil would be evil prior to creating him. Sure, the Devil might be the cause behind evil, but it was God who unleashed that Evil. Also, the Bible says God created everything. If you take the Bible literally, as many Christians claim to, that would mean that God had to have created himself, being that God also fits within the scope of everything???

Answer 1

so He let it happen .. beings capable of corrupting good but choosing not to do so in its face ... God is God and He did things the way He wanted .. blaming him wont change anything ..

Answer 2

You see how binary thinking lends itself to a life of wrangling and confusion?
These creation stories all sound the same, whether they are from the Orinoco River Basin or from India. People create beings that have human motivations and spin them until the children finally fall asleep.
At some later point of time it must have become apparent that most people would follow someone who tells them comprehensible stories to explain the incomprehensible.
There is research from the UCSD Linguistics Department that explains why this works. The brain uses more energy when wh-who,what,why,where,when- questions are open. It will accept even partial answers and close them in order to go to lower energy consumption.
Demagogues of all casts use this propensity of the brain to befuddle populations. Once people are befuddled they can more easily be used for the befuddlers' purpose.
The other main aspect of this situation is that we have night and day. That fools people into thinking in opposites.
If you think that the vast majority of people are not so easy to fool, just turn on the television or look at the last few elections.
So here we are. Debating fluff and vapors while we spin merrily toward our species extinction in the midst of murder rape and starvation.
There are people who say, "Wait a minute, there are alternative explanations that don't involve opposition." They are roundly ignored.

Answer 3

ok God is the original creator right? but he made humans in his own image and gave to a point, humans the power of creation too. look how we have changed the work from some ???? years ago. how ever we are corrupted so did we not create evil. also one problem with the bible is that people take to literily even belivers and this can lead them down the wrong path. the bible is symbolic and can mean diffrent things to diffrent people. is it better that one person tells what it says and risks every one being wrong or every one diciding and only a few being wrong? this is a good question

Answer 4

Oh! This is a real easy one...

It's not gods fault because there is no god!

No, really! It's just that simple. The notion of god is a lie! This god they profess to believe in is a myth. Thus, they have faith in a lie! It would be extremely funny if it weren't so sad!

From an Abrahamic Mythological perspective, evil is the disobeying of gods will and law, so the mythical god would NOT have created evil per say. He created choice. The choice to obey him or the choice to disobey him. (evil) That's all there is to it! But like I said, this is the myth!

I hope this helped.

Answer 5

Good point, however, you have to realize what defines "good" and "evil".

In the true root of the word, religiously speaking, "good" is simply any action FOR God and "evil" is any action AGAINST God. So in our universe of equal opposites, there is automatically that counter-balance put into place there, and therefore, is the beauty of freewill.

For reasons really unknown, God gave Lucifer the ability to choose. Now, maybe all the angels have that, maybe just the higher ones, I don't know how that works because it's not really highlighted a lot in the Bible I'm most familiar with. But the truth is that God did not create Lucifer to be evil, he created him to make a choice, and while he knew the choice he would make, he didn't stop him because giving someone a choice and then keeping them from making the wrong choice isn't really giving them choice at all.

This is also true with humans... we can choose; work FOR God and be "good" in his eyes, or go against him and be "evil" in his eyes. Now, keep in mind that over the course of time, the definitions of good and evil don't always reflect an awareness of God's opinion, but have evolved into being more of a social description, so when someone says "good" and "evil" in this context, they are, of course, refering to "in God's terms"

Answer 6

simple...people have free will...people can be evil.


i'm not religious so i don't believe the whole "god created everything" but thinking in a religious manor...that's the best i could come up with.


but the thing about religion..well, the bible mainly is that it contradicts itself constantly.
and another thing is that some religous beliefs are just BASED on the bible and not necisarily takin forbatem form the bible...and since people interpreted those beliefs....it's going to have some flaws.

no offense meant though by any of this.

Answer 7

Man wrote the bible and others have come along and they have the habit of sneaking behind peoples back and rearranging the perception and perspective to their liking.

Changing history...................but everyone knows that God makes no mistakes.

How else is there going to be a way to recognize good, if the Devil isn't F'ing with us???

God didn't create himself................cosmic forces.
It took 10million give or take a billion years for this to occurr. But this is what I believe.

Answer 8

The devil, satan, Lucifer, is a fallen angle. Satan fell from the grace of God and He fell (was banned) from Heaven to earth.Satan was perfect, in as much as an angle can be perfect, but he decided to glorify himself, ignore Gods instructions, and do whatever he pleased, ignoring God.Satan already knows full well what his fate is going to be. He knows he is dammed and when the world comes to an end, he knows he will spend eternity in anguish in hell. God created Satan, but Satan, of his own accord, created his own doom. Remember who the Bible sights as tricking Eve into eating what God told her not to eat? The devil (Satan) did. Did God WANT Satan to do those things? I doubt it. Did God know Satan would do what he did? Maybe. Maybe Satan was permitted (against the actual will of God) to tempt mankind as a test to mankind. Things are tested to see how well they will work or if they have learned. Schools give students tests to see if they learned what was taught. Cars, electronics, appliances, almost everything, is tested to see if it works properly before it is sold. Maybe Satan was given the OK to test mankind for the same reasons. God created Himself? No. God always existed. We can't fully comprehend it, we see things as having a starting or beginning point and an ending point. God has no beginning point and will have no ending point. If I were to, lets say XYZ, created God then it would be asked who created XYZ. If I said ABC created XYZ, then it would be asked who created ABC? The question would go on forever. God has always been there. That is just part of the awesomeness of God.

Answer 9

Well, the standard answer from the godders is that humans have free will and it is humans that are being tested.

So, I think it is a worthy exercise to ask whether or not evil really exists...
One could argue that evil is just a perception and only apparent evil exists. For example, a suicide bomber may appear to be acting out of evilness but he actually believes he is going to heaven for his actions - he believes he is behaving righteously and therefore is not truely evil.

Answer 10

Evil is absolutely gods fault and don't let those "free will" morons try to tell you otherwise.
God had the infinite variety of possible people to create and he choose to create those who would do evil., He, in his infinite power could have created only those he knew ( useing his omniscience) would only choose to do good.
Since he choose to create people who would choose to do evil, he is at fault for that evil.

Answer 11

You've probably heard the "Free will requires choices to choose from" argument, so I won't bore you with it again. But that's the reason.

But of course God created the devil; and the devil is doing exactly what he was created to do. God also created hell, and it is doing exactly what it was created to do.