good and evil.?

Question

I read on here that god did not create the evil in the world,he gave us free will and we use that will to do and create evil.
This confuses me because when something good happens people say its gods will,or by the grace of god,or that god allowed it to happen.How can god be responsibile and get the credit for the good things that humans do with their free will but doesn't get the credit or blame for the bad things that humans do with their free will.

So basically why does god have no part in the evil that we do but everything good that happens is a result of god.

Answer 1

why do they put braille dots on the keypad of the drive-up ATM?

if the black box always survives a plane crash, why isn't the entire plane made of the same stuff?

is there another word for "synonym"?

why is it called "tourist season" if we can't shoot them?

Answer 2

I disagree with the first response that God created evil in some way--evil is not a positive quality, it is simply the lack of goodness, just as darkness is the absence of light, rather than a positive quality in itself.

I don't know if you're just snarking with this question, but assuming you are looking for a serious response: first, what you ask is profound, and has been debated by brilliant men for more than 2000 years, going back to the early pagan Greek philosophers. One way to think of it is, like light, don't blame the lamp because your eyes are closed.

Further [and if this is, after all, just an amateurish troll for atheism] think of this: if there is no God, by what standard do you call ANYTHING good or evil? Without God, good and evil are meaningless, they represent the opinion of a moment and not anything consistent. This is where Marxism and Naziism come in, where 'good' [and 'truth'] are defined by whatever the Leader or the Central Committee decides it is that week.

So be careful with what you want, you may get it. Concentration camps and all.

Answer 3

The Scriptures tell us that ALL GOOD THINGS come from God. When Christians thank God for winning a race, or whatever "good thing" has happened to them, they are merely acknowledging the fact that God IS the author of all GOOD things. He is NOT, nor has He ever been, the author of evil. How, then, can you blame/"credit" God with something that is not His to claim?

Think about the sun, for a minute. The sun is responsible for all the light shone upon the earth (in a simple universe... I'm not talking about the very faint light sources... etc... let's keep the example simple, k?). It is NOT responsible for the darkness, for the darkness is the absence of the light,but not the light itself. So how, then, could one "blame" the sun for darkness when it is responsible for only the light?

Thus, you cannot "blame" God for evil, but only good, since He IS "good."


Have a blessed day.

Answer 4

ok, the guy that answered before me is wrong. Actually, the way it goes is this...
God created us with free will so that we would WANT to love and serve HIM. Let's face it, nobody enjoys being FORCED to do ANYTHING!!!
Also, Satan is the ruler of the earth right now. His goal is to get as many people as he can to turn away from God. Satan will use whatever he can to tempt us, even if it looks pleasing to us. God has no control of people winning the lottery or anything like that. God does still has most of the control however, He will never let us be tested by Satan with something that God feels we wouldn't be able to handle. Our faith in God, the rainbow that reminds us of His promise of peace, and our free will should help us on our path to serve him. There's a lot more to it, but you would need to study the Bible.

Answer 5

Some people say God doesn't provoque bad things, but we are free to choose them. They don't say that if we DO something good it is because God made us do it, Do they? So we do bad or good thing cuz we choose to.

Now, when good things happens people thank God... and when bad things happen.. you are supposed to learn about it, and get strenght form God, so in a way a real Believer should also thank and praise God in the bad moments too...

Eever seen "facing the giants"?

P.S I'm not Christian... yet... who knows...

Answer 6

We live in a fallen world. We all are sinners who deserve eternal separation from God. But God is so good, that He sent His only begotten Son to pay what we deserve by dying in our place so that our relationship with Him could be restored. Soon He will come back and restore the whole world, but judgment has to come first. Make sure that you are on the winning side.

Answer 7

Here is an interesting idea, god is guilty of evil because he allows it to happen. I think that good and evil need each other for balance. (btw I'm not evil LOL)

Answer 8

well, st.augustine believed that evil is the absence of god, basically if we turn away from him. my history teacher explained god as a donut and the whole is evil. i, although have no clu if god exists or not. i'm not absolutely sure that he doesn't exist but i also don' t have "proof" he does.

Answer 9

It follows that if God is omnipotent, omniscient and omnipresent that he created evil and Satan and demons. Why - nobody knows. But as Adam fell he took us with him and nobody is good (Psalm 14:1) and we are all destined for hell. Now - you can whine about it until you end up there, or you can ask God to open your eyes to the truth about going to heaven instead.