God created Lucifer, am I right? Or didn't He?
Lucifer fell and became Satan, the Father of Lies. Satan wants us to be as he is, unhappy, fallen, sinful, EVIL.
If God was so adamant that Adam and Eve not eat of the fruit of the tree of knowledge of good and evil, then why did He not do something to prevent it?
If Jesus Christ was always intended to be our Saviour, then God must have wanted Adam and Eve to eat the fruit, otherwise, Jesus would have been totally unnecessary.
2007-09-13 10:28:56 · 20 answers · asked by mormon_4_jesus 7 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Clarifications: If God had not intended for Adam and Eve to eat the fruit, He would have done something more to keep them from it, besides just tell them not to.
If Adam and Eve had chosen not to eat the fruit, we would not need Jesus Christ, right? And no one has, as yet, shown me that Jesus Christ is the same person as Heavenly Father.
2007-09-14 00:05:45 · update #1
Yes, god would have had to have created evil if he created everything else. Where else would evil have come from? Or are humans just as powerful as god and capable of creating things, too?
2007-09-13 10:36:35 · answer #1 · answered by That Guy 4 · 0⤊ 2⤋
God creates but when sin steps in we become like a mutant of what we were to be.
God gave us free will. The right to choose.
Do you like the thought of being a puppet?
Sure God gives us warnings and that does not mean he is going to stop anyone from doing what he said do not do. Your earthly father tells you stop do not touch that do not go there. Children still get into trouble even when warned. God chastens us. Man punishes man. Laws are made and judgments or given by the court. God does not give us what we deserve yet we often repeat the same sin.
Satan does not want anything but us to be dead. Satan was a worshiping Angel. He made a joyful noise onto the Lord. He was envied for his beauty and charm. He wanted control.
God made us to worship him. So we praise him. He does us good so we can love him and give him praise. We took lucifers place. So he is angry. God gave us his word to know about him and his Character and love.
2007-09-13 11:00:49 · answer #2 · answered by God is love. 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Jesus Christ was not created, He is God.
God created us to love Him and have fellowship with him.
Love is something done by choice, and God allowed Adam and Eve to choose to obey or disobey.
Satan choose to disobey.
People still choose to disobey
They choose to disobey, and that is what sin is.
The bible says that God commended his love toward us that while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us.
God took the form of a man and paid the penalty of our disobedience.
Because the penalty has been paid for all of our sins can be forgiven, if we accept the payment Jesus made and ask for forgiveness based on what he has done.
God is all good all the time.
He only wants the best for his creatures, and disobeying God is not only sin, it is evil, bad and harmful.
He is a good, loving, merciful and wonderful God
2007-09-13 10:45:45 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
there is often been a controversy between theists regardless of if evil is a separate tension or purely the absence of sturdy. many faiths have a 'manichaean' view of two 'gods', one sturdy and one evil, who conflict over the earth. some Christians see it this type, with God and the devil locked in try against, the earth putting interior the stability. look at how significant the devil is to a pair styles of Christianity! If evil grew to become into purely the absence of sturdy, he does no longer be significant in any respect. religious doctrines and scriptures are generally prepared on explaining why, if God is proper and all his creations are proper, why existence on earth is so imperfect. one thank you to describe that's to work out that there is a devil who has an evil effect interior the worldwide, offering evil selections purely as God delivers sturdy ones, and guy has 'unfastened will' to pass the two way. CS Lewis had an exciting way of finding at it (and that i choose i'd desire to tell you which of them e book yet they have all style of melted at the same time in my recommendations on account that I examine them years in the past). He suggested there have been truly 2 styles of evil practiced by ability of human beings. One is -real- evil--greed, anger, etc., the element that makes human beings desire to actively harm one yet another. the different is purely our 'animal nature'--laziness, selfishness, the unawareness of the desires of others.
2016-11-10 08:55:59 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
People in our view misunderstand the very concept of sin time and again. The realm of being was flat before free choice was given. Whatever plain you were created at, you were stuck with it. When the Lord almighty wanted man to rise, he sloped the plain of being, when you could climb up and get closer to him or slide down in sin and move away from him.
Satan was just a tool of that slope. Satan by itself is not given the authority to force you to sin. He can only offer you sins to do. If you reject him, then Satan himself becomes the basis to push you closer to God. An example would make this even clearer:
If I was walking along and someone deliberately dropped a purse in front of me as they walked on while I walked behind them. Now, I have the option to pick up the purse and give it to them or take it and slide off with it.
The act of dropping was value neutral. My reaction could be to disobey God and take it, or obey the Lord and return it to the owner. If that "choice" was not given to me, true I would be saved from a sin, but I would also be denied the blessing of doing the right thing.
Satan in that sense benefits the good, by offering them evil, which they are free to reject and move closer to God.
Satan is the sieve of the Almighty, who separates the good from the evil ones. He takes the rejects and leaves the good for God. I hope this makes sense.
In essence, choice itself leads to sin but also to reaching up to the higher realms of obedience. If the Lord had not given free choice, we would all be animals without a choice and there would be no Abraham or Moses! What a stale World that would be? But, we would not even realize that!!
Innocent but stale!
2007-09-13 10:47:00 · answer #5 · answered by NQV 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
No. God did absoulutely NOT create evil.
Yes, He created Lucifer but, it was Lucifer's choice to do evil. He wanted to be more high than God and...that's evil!!!!
Why didn't God prevent it? He wanted to see if we would obey Him or not. And, it ends up...we didn't.
Yes, Jesus Christ our Lord is our Saviour...but, He WANTED to die on the cross for us. He had a choice. And the choice He made was the choice He wanted for us.
---ladybug---
ps.
God would never create evil.
2007-09-13 10:39:50 · answer #6 · answered by Dallas_Cowboys 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Good, bad, grace, evil...it's all choice. I'm not a religious man but it seems to me that when angel such as Lucifer rebels against God, Lucifer made the choice to create evil not God himself. God gave him a chance and he screwed it up.
2007-09-13 10:34:38 · answer #7 · answered by tercentenary98 6 · 2⤊ 0⤋
the reason it was wrong for them to eat was because lucifer commanded them to do it. not God. God would have done it in his own time, but since the request came from satan it was wrong. in order for us to truly gain the purpose of this life we had to know good from evil. there has to be opposition in all things. God created lucifer, but lucifer made his own choice when he wanted the glory for himself and wanted a plan contrary to God's. we have always had free agency. which means there has always been good and evil to choose from.
2007-09-13 10:42:07 · answer #8 · answered by plastik punk -Bottom Contributor 6 · 0⤊ 1⤋
God created the possibility of evil. He did not create evil. Lucifer was created good but chose differently.
2007-09-13 10:33:34 · answer #9 · answered by epaphras_faith 4 · 5⤊ 0⤋
I heard about a philosophy professor... lots of fun stories about philosophy professors!..
Anyway, this particular professor was using the existance of evil to disprove the existance of God.... if God is good, and he created all things.....
One of the students used some interesting logic to correct the teacher-
Does darkness exist? Yes?... not really- Dark cannot be studied or measured. It's merely a word we use to describe the absence of light.
Does cold exist? Yes?... not really- Like dark, cold cannot be studied or measured. It's merely a word we use to describe the absence of heat.
Does evil exist? Yes?... not really- Like dark, and cold, evil is merely a word we use to describe the absence of good, the influence of God.
God created us and gave us the ability to make choices. Through our choices, we've created evil.
2007-09-13 11:07:05 · answer #10 · answered by Yoda's Duck 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋