This is a question that is continually posed to me by an avowed athiest--
Is God the creator of all things?
If God is the creator of ALL things then did he also create evil?
IF he did create evil how did an "all good" being create evil?
If God didn't create evil then he didn't create everything.
My answers have fallen short of explaining ANYTHING to him--but I do believe he's sincere in wanting understanding in this question.
Thanks in advance for all thoughtful answers.
2007-08-07 17:04:02 · 30 answers · asked by steinbeck11 6 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
God created all conscious creatures, including angels and heavenly beings, with free will. He gave them free will so that His relationship with them could be authentic. If He simply MADE them obey Him and love Him, that would not be on par with the type of relationship He has with us, which is a pure and holy love. He wants us to experience that authentic love, and not to be robots.
But part of that involved the possibility that we would choose away from Him - which is evil. We chose knowledge instead of relationship with God. We wanted power apart from God, so in that we entered into the realm of evil. God could not "create" evil because evil isn't really a "thing" -- it's the absence of God; or the rebellion against God. "Evil" is only good, twisted. Satan cannot create anything NEW, he can only twist and distort what has already been created.
So think about the ontology of evil, as not a separate "thing" that was created, but rather the distortion and corruption of something real (Goodness).
2007-08-07 18:03:18 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 1⤋
God created Adam and Eve on the sixth "day". He did not create races. He created one human family and from that one human family or race, sprung all the people of the world and all the generations hence. Good night! For Cain to marry someone from the sixth "day" he would have to marry Eve. Obviously as humans started multiplying like rabbits, the known world got populated. That is where Cain got his wife. Now here is something to think about: Bible thumpers like to force down our throats that if you are a true believer, then you have to believe that God created every thing in six 24 hour days. Pure dumb. What was created on the first day? An unknown (to us) light source. That was the source with which the days began to be numbered, not the sun. The sun was not created until the fourth day and God had already started counting days by that other light source, "days" before the sun was even created. There was evening and morning alright but according to that unknown light source. Man did not show up until the sixth one of these days. Everything so far is from God's perspective. Man's perspective didn't start until the sixth day. Man's perspective is that a day is 24 hours. We really don't know God's perspective on this because he frankly doesn't say. However, careful unbiased study of the Genesis account leads you to the conclusion that the God days were not 24 hours of our time. A different light source measured His day; the sun measures ours. You can get a feel for those God days when He SPROUTED all the vegetation on the surface of the earth. And the earth was just there, covered with an abyss worth of water and darkness. First day doesn't take place until the light source is created. Evening and Morning made the first day. Yet the earth was sitting their waste and womb-like before the light was created that measured the first day. Before the light there was no instrument to measure the first day. The earth was before. We know that God created the earth, but we are never given a complete picture. However, one thing is certain. God's days were not based on the sun as our days are. Something definitely to think about. Not that this makes a hill of beans in a Chinese restaurant, but if it floats your boat, sail with it. Mixed metaphor. Smile.
2016-04-01 04:56:43 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes, God is the creator of all things. God created good and evil. Evil was created to give man a choice. Evil has no power over those who have accepted Jesus Christ as their Lord and Savior.
2007-08-07 17:13:47 · answer #3 · answered by 4HIM- Christians love 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes God created everything, but He is not the originator of sin.
Where did sin originate? in satans heart. Not God.
He gave every created being freewill. Some chose to go against him and others to be with him.
He is a God of freewill. He could have gotten rid of Satan but he even gave him a chance to change his mind.
every one gets to decide for themselves for God or against Him.
The Bible does not say anything about creating evil, this question really has no ground in the Bible.
remember everyone had to make a choice,satan was the one that disobeyed first.
2007-08-07 17:32:48 · answer #4 · answered by humble 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Though it may seem like a tautology, God created all created things. We want to note all 'things', not every existence.
Nothing created evil, because evil is not a created thing. Creation is in the realm of God The natural world has been permeated with evil as a result of our sin. We take evil and make it manifest in God's creation.
God did not create evil, evil is the logical opposite of God. We find evil in this world because we were given the choice to choose with or against God, and in doing so, choose to bring evil into the world.
That's the distinction that I think needs to be made. Not all 'things' were created, were brought into existence by God. There are entities which are the compliment of God's existence, evil is one of them.
2007-08-07 17:24:42 · answer #5 · answered by soulinverse 4 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Evil is not created by God because it is explicitly not God. Just as cold is the absence of heat, evil is the absence of God. God is what is good so whatever goes against that is evil.
2007-08-07 17:10:51 · answer #6 · answered by mrglass08 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
This was choice of Satan.
He chose to rebel.
1 third of the stars followed him.
1 third didn't care.
What about the rest?
This shows also the angels have freewill.
People choose to be evil. This is the reprobate mind. God allows these to have the same free will and mind in this earth life.
2007-08-08 01:34:02 · answer #7 · answered by troll to troll 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
If God created light then he also created darkness -- neither can exist without the other. Same with good and evil.
2007-08-07 17:14:41 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
In a sense God did...... Lucifer was a creation of God...... He was the most beautiful angel, and the highest of them..... but, he became greedy for power, so he and 1/3 of the angels, the ones he convinced to follow him, and believed like he did, that he could become as God, were thrown from heaven..... and now satan is the god of this world, and that is Biblical.....God did not create evil but he does * allow* it ..... God bless
2007-08-07 17:11:16 · answer #9 · answered by Annie 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Genesis I...1-10
2007-08-07 17:06:33 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋