2007-10-20 02:01:46 · 23 answers · asked by asdfghjkl 2 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
give me ten points or i'll kick your a** in the head!
2007-10-21 16:36:24 · answer #1 · answered by johnjesto 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Your question is a good one and the way I have heard it answered is that god did not create evil, but allowed it to happen within Creation. You can say the same for 2,3,7,8-tetrachlorodibenzo-p-dioxin. God never created that either but it is considered amongst the most lethal substances on the planet.
I agree that the problem of evil is a significant one for any theist to solve. Being a non-theist I see evil as a choice like any other, something that must be overcome. Why a loving and caring god would even allow this to happen is beyond my understanding. I can only call it stupid, or a really gaping oversight.
2007-10-20 02:47:23 · answer #2 · answered by fierce beard 5 · 0⤊ 1⤋
God created EVIL to let us know the difference between evil people and the good people. If God had not created night how could we appreciate the Day light which shows us all beautiful things God has created for us. If we had day light only and no darkness, we won't be able to sleep to charge our batteries.
I think God created Satan (the evil one) also to see who will follow Satan and who will follow God's teachings.
The life and death, evil and good is God's selection process to weed out the bad souls to burn in hell and to send good souls to heaven for some higher purpose of God in the next life that God will tell us when we shall get there.
2007-10-20 02:20:26 · answer #3 · answered by majeed3245 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It's your lack of understanding of what "evil" is that draws you to this conclusion.
Evil is not the OPPOSITE of good, but the ABSENCE of good.
Let me give you a couple of illustrations that may help to understand what I mean.
Cold is not the opposite of heat, but the absence of heat. You can remove the heat from a body, but once all heat is removed, you can not add any more cold to it. When we say something is getting colder, it is a relative term. It doesn't mean that you are actually adding coldness to it.
Likewise, in the same way, dark is not the opposite of light, but it's absence. You can remove the light from an area, but once there is no light at all, you can not add more darkness to the room. When we say the room is getting darker, this, too, is a relative term. It doesn't mean that you're actually adding darkness to the room.
Finally, in the same way, evil is not the opposite of good, but it's absence. When satan chose to withdraw himself from following God, it was also an act of removing good from himself, since God is the author of all that is good. By acting contrary to the will of God it's the same time of action as reducing the light or reducing the heat, thus evil increases (relatively speaking).
We are good or evil depending on how closely we follow God and obey Him, because "God is good."
2007-10-20 02:36:46 · answer #4 · answered by no1home2day 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Freedom to choose includes the capability to choose evil. Satan chose evil in his rebellion against God. So no, God did not create evil. Satan then tempted mankind with the idea that "you would be just like God" and mankind succumbed to it. God temporarily allows evil to exist alongside good for a reason. At the end of time all evil things will be swept away and thrown into the fire, and only good will remain
2007-10-20 02:18:50 · answer #5 · answered by the phantom 6 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Here is where the Bible it's self hints at a higher authority than god.
In Genesis, Adam and Eve eat of the "Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil".
Genesis 3:7
7And the eyes of them both were opened, and they knew that they were naked; and they sewed fig leaves together, and made themselves aprons.
This implies that there is a native distinction between good and evil, and god didn't want them to know of evil. Did god create evil?? Who knows, but this is suggestive of an authority that god himself answers to. (The following is even deeper speculation and is totally baseless)
Why else would he have put the tree there to begin with? Maybe he had no choice. Maybe his higher power dictated that he had to incorporate the concept of evil.
Also, it suggests that ignorance is an excusable bliss. Before they ate of the tree, they were naked. God let them walk around that way. No problem. After they realized that they were naked and it was wrong, they clothed themselves. Does this suggest that because they didn't know they were doing wrong, that it was ok??
2007-10-20 02:19:45 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 2⤋
I'm atheist but here's a quote for you...not of the Bible, just something I picked up.
"What is the good, if not the teacher of the bad? What is the bad, if not the task of the good?"
I'll let you sort it out. However, there is no God (in my opinion) so it has more to do with balance. Can someone be truly good if there was no chance to do evil? Can someone be evil if they were not first good? All the major villains in literacy and drama were good at one point in time. Lucifer: Angel. Sauron: Maiar. Morgoth: Valar Lex Luther: Friend of Superman Voldemort: good wizard (kinda) Romulans: used to be Vulcan's. See...most bad guys used to be good. And in each of those, there were characters who were good to take them out. Hope this helps. Once again, it has nothing to do with God, but more to do with Balance.
2007-10-20 02:15:35 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
God is All That Is, all-in-all; this means nothing else exists. Thus, there is no evil. Evil is our turning from God, forgetting who we are, and projecting this we call "The World".
We could not in truth leave God, as God is within the cells and tiniest particles...more intimate than breath, closer than hands and feet. Everything that God is, we are. We remain as created.
We dream of living in isolation, apart from one another, but we are whole. We are beloved of God; evil has no power, since it has no life. There is Only this: God and everything God created. Infinite joy, peace, love.
2007-10-20 02:22:50 · answer #8 · answered by Sky in the Grass 5 · 0⤊ 2⤋
What do you understand as being evil? evil is when the creature disobeys the Creator and rebells by sin.
God created nothing but good however He did take one huge risk when He gave us free will,but the nature of love(pure love) does not seek to force another to love in return and so it is the gift of free will that allows us to do this.
Another point that is very much mis-understood is the fact that as Creator God is intitled to our loyalty and love and the freedom we have been given is to choose to do this,we actually misuse our free will choice of freedom when we are rebellious.
2007-10-20 02:11:49 · answer #9 · answered by Sentinel 7 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Luke 10:21 (KJV) At that time Jesus, full of joy through the Holy Spirit, said, "I praise you, Father, Lord of heaven and earth, because you have hidden these things from the wise and learned, and revealed them to little children. Yes, Father, for this was your good pleasure...
If you are a child of God you know! It is for his "good pleasure" -- He gets off watching you suffer! He is God and he can afford that!
Job 9:23 (NIV) When a scourge brings sudden death, he mocks the despair of the innocent.
Proverbs 1:26-28 (NIV) I (GOD) in turn will laugh at your disaster; I will mock when calamity overtakes you- when calamity overtakes you like a storm, when disaster sweeps over you like a whirlwind, when distress and trouble overwhelm you. "Then they will call to me but I will not answer; they will look for me but will not find me.
2007-10-20 02:17:34 · answer #10 · answered by Opus 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋
God didn't create anything he is just a mere imagination of weak and desperate people who has been blinded by the past leaders who wants to change the way we live... I'm one of the Roman Catholics pagans... because i was born with that curse they didn't even give me a chance to know what's the truth..
2007-10-20 02:13:38 · answer #11 · answered by Archie 2 · 2⤊ 1⤋