i kno God didnt create evil.. but??

Question

i consider myself a pretty strong christian but the other day someone asked me a question nd i couldnt answer it.. nd i was sooo sad i juz didnt understand.. they say if evil cannot enter the kingdom then how did the angel lucifer get there... nd why did God create him there if he KNEW this was goin 2 happen.. plz o plz can sumone answer me.. nd no athiests plz.. i think too much of u have had ur share of answers on yahoo answers.. thnx :)

Answer 1

What evil is, is actually anti-God, anti-Life, anti-Somethingness. It is a negative force against that which exists - a rebellion. So in this way he did not "create" it, because you cannot create "nothingness" - it is paradox, but what happened is that He ALLOWED this awareness of resistence to Himself to happen by merit of His Own Nature. This resistence is NOT of God. It is given to WILL.

Now why is there a necessity to allow it to happen? It is allowed because the Nature of God is Love and Love does not FORCE anyone to do what it wants. Remember Jesus words ... whoever will COME to Me, I will give him, I will give him by HIS will, not Mine, tho I would have it that u choose Me, you will choose Me freely. See the Nature of Love and of God - it is YOU who will do it for ME and I for YOU, this is what unites us in the WAY of God, in Oneness. THIS is Love.

U cannot escape this innate awareness of anti-existence - this life is a reckoning, it is present in all things and manifests itself thru illnesses,catastrophe, disagreement, unknowing...and loss, etc. But if we are of the Nature of God, it is our heart that testifies Him, and we know and trust the power of Love that is within us that we will be redeemed from this manifest decay and continuing failure of His Law.

Then it is, thru Love that we come to Love. You come to Me to deliver you and I WILL. Revelation 21:4 And God shall wipe away all tears from their eyes; and there shall be no more death, neither sorrow, nor crying, neither shall there be any more pain: for the former things are passed away.

Answer 2

Jews don't believe in an angle Lucifer. That is a latin word inserted by St. Jerome. It comes from the Hebrew word for the first light of the sun. It is part of a parable about Nebuchanezzer and how he had started to say the morning prayers and lapsed into arrogance and pride.

But I disagree with your premise. G-d most certainly did create evil as it says in Is 45:7

"Who forms the light and creates darkness, makes peace and creates evil. I am Hashem, maker of all these."

The root of the word create is "bara" which means to create something where nothing existed before. There is no instance in the Torah where this root is used with anyone but G-d.

The word Evil is Rah, which only means evil. Some try to pass it off as calamity, but that is just incorrect.

I ask you, if something created evil besides G-d, then does that mean there are two creators?

The second part of the answer is why evil was created and that is a very, very long answer. Let's just say that evil is somewhat different than the English definition.

Shalom

Answer 3

God did not create Satan. The name Satan means resister. The angel who rebelled against God made himself a satan - or a resister inasmuch as he resisted God's will and authority in the Garden of Eden.

There is no reason to suggest that God knew everything that was going to happen. He has the ability to foreknow things, yes. But he does not always use it. He is selective as to when and where he will use this ability. The scriptures make this clear.

I am not sure what you mean by "evil cannot enter the kingdom." Because free will exists, there is the possibility that wickedness can exist. In other words, all intelligent creatures (including us) are free moral agents. We have the ability to choose the righteous path or the unrighteous path. With choice comes the possibility of wickedness. The only way wickedness can not exist is if God created intelligent persons like robots so that it would be IMPOSSIBLE for them to do wrong. But God did not do that. Neither will he take away the gift of free will.

That does not mean, however, that God will forever tolerate wickedness. Because he won't. He will deal with it and rid earth of it in his own time. And that time is soon.

If a rebel should pop up again in the future, there will be no need to allow him to continue as in the present case with Satan. But right now it is necessary. In the future, if someone should rebel again, that someone will be summarily dealt with. On the spot. As in dead. End of story. The thing is that most people do not understand why God is presently allowing wickedness in the world and so it is distressing to them. But there is a very good reason he is doing it. When the issue is settled, he will destroy Satan and all of his followers. And the peace that is restored to earth will never be disrupted again.

Hannah J Paul

Answer 4

The name Lucifer means "Light Bringer" I believe. He was not always evil, but had free will and you know the story. I don't think anybody knows the answer. Know that it is ok to question what you have been taught sometimes, if it doesn't make sense to you. God is with you no matter what. You just have to decide: do I feel God in my heart or not? If you feel God in your heart, no amount of questioning the stories you have been taught can take that away from you. God comes to different people in different ways. You will be just fine as long as you realize that. God Bless.

Answer 5

The question the person asked was faulty to begin with. Angel Lucifer was not originally created evil. He was created to be good, but BECAME evil, and therefore kicked out of the Kingdom of God (Isaiah 14:12; Luke 10:18). As for your second question, God created us even though He knew we would fall, didn’t He?

Addition: In response to huffyb:
As for Isaiah 45:7, the kind of evil to which God refers is not the same kind of evil that is of Satan. The “evil” in Isaiah are things that are opposite to peace (i.e., calamities, affliction, distress, etc. or “ra” in Hebrew = natural evil due to the fall) AS OPPOSED TO “iniquity” (“evel” in Hebrew, or “wickedness, perverseness, injustice, unrighteousness, wrong, violent deeds of injustice, etc” = moral evil) found in Satan, who was formerly Lucifer (Ezekiel 28:15).
Read the context. Do not misinterpret taking verses out of context.

Answer 6

Here are the biblical references:

2Kings 6:33 And while he yet talked with them, behold, the messenger came down unto him: and he said, Behold, this evil is of the LORD; what should I wait for the LORD any longer?

Isaiah 45:7 I form the light, and create darkness: I make peace, and create evil: I the LORD do all these things.

Amos 3:6 Shall a trumpet be blown in the city, and the people not be afraid? shall there be evil in a city, and the LORD hath not done it?

Answer 7

im an atheist but i have debated a few christians on this. god did create evil. he created evil when he created good. you cant have one without the other. along those same lines, god is good and evil. since god created everything and in turn is everything god is good and evil, perfection and error. god only chooses to be one or the other. god also created free will. free will flies in the face of knowing the future. god created everything with free will. god gave lucifer and all the other angels the free will to do what they want.

Answer 8

The angel Lucifer was not evil to begin with.

After he sinned he was kicked out.

Why did God choose some and not others?

His plans allows for Sovereign grace and human responsibility

Answer 9

if you accept a single-god creator who is omnipotent, than that god would have had to have created evil.

if you accept a single-god creator who is NOT omnipotent, than that god might not have created evil, but if he/she/it/they have no power over evil, and that evil is personified in another form, than one admittedly or not is following a duotheistic system, and beleive in more than one god.

Also, Lucifer was noty an angel, he was the Etruscan sun god, who was particularly targeted for demonization by the church because he survvied and was worshipped into the middle ages, right in Rome's home turf.

Answer 10

Your assumption that God didn't create evil differs from the Bible which states that God DID create evil.
Isaiah 45:7 I form the light, and create darkness: I make peace, and create evil:
the LORD do all these things.