If we believe that God created a perfect world and He is sovereign, where did evil come from? There are some people who believe that His sovereign control includes the creation of evil, and they base their conclusion on the words of Isaiah 45:7. In that verse, God says, "I form the light, and create darkness: I make peace, and create evil" (KJV).
Did GOD created Evils?
Why did God create man if He knew some would go to hell?
We were created for God's pleasure! Don't you know that God loves you and wants you? It was His whole purpose in creating mankind.
Bad things happen in this world, and people suffer. Some people are hurt in accidents. Some are injured in sports. Some are born with physical problems. You can probably think of many ways that people can be harmed. Today there are many doctors, nurses, and other people who can help us when we are hurt or need special help. They can give us medicine and bandages, and they can operate if necessary. And scientists are always working on special tools to help. Glasses, wheels chairs, hearing aids, and artificial legs are just a few of their wonderful inventions. These doctors and scientist are gifts from God.
God planned for people to be healthy. Disease, death, and disasters are a result of sin in the world. Everyone living in this sinful world suffers the effects of sin, even Christians. God may allow us to go through difficult times to teach us to rely on him or other lessons. Whatever our struggles, God can be glorified in them. In fact, God delights in demonstrating his strength in weak people.
The devil is also called Satan. The word devil means "liar" or "enemy." Satan used to be an angel. But he wanted to be like God. God kicked him out of heaven. Ever since then, Satan has worked on earth, trying to defeat God and God's people. He is God's enemy. But God is far stronger than Satan. In the end, Satan will be thrown into hell and suffer forever.
If you ever heard the myth of Einstein proving God exists to a teacher you would have heard something I think is awesome. Evil is the absence of God.
When God created everything he wanted it to be good, he made it good (Genesis 1). But in order for something to be good there has to be something to compare it to, something on the opposite spectrum. So in essence God made evil for the purpose of there to be good. For us that means we have the choice to love a friend or hate them.
When God created everything he wanted it to be good, he made it good (Genesis 1). But in order for something to be good there has to be something to compare it to, something on the opposite spectrum. So in essence God made evil for the purpose of there to be good. For us that means we have the choice to love a friend or hate them.
Agreed. In order for there to be a winner, there has to be a loser. So in order for their to be good, there just has to be evil.
And I don't think anyone will every really know why God created man until they get to ask Him themselves, but if I had to take a shot at it I'd say he might have gotten lonely. Sure, he had all the angels, but maybe He wanted some company of less equivalence to Himself.
He never meant for them to go to Hell, but that's just the way it turned out. He gave us free will and we chose wrong. Why? Think about it, if your parents told you that they only loved you because they had to, would you feel so good about them saying they love you? Probably not. But if they chose to love you, not out of fear but actually out of love, then you'd feel a lot better about them.
It bothers me, why ask a question if you give yourself the answer. Talking to yourself is a good way to sort things out, but replying to yourself is a sign of insanity
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God bless
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Pampoon
And I don't think anyone will every really know why God created man until they get to ask Him themselves, but if I had to take a shot at it I'd say he might have gotten lonely. Sure, he had all the angels, but maybe He wanted some company of less equivalence to Himself.
He never meant for them to go to Hell, but that's just the way it turned out. He gave us free will and we chose wrong. Why? Think about it, if your parents told you that they only loved you because they had to, would you feel so good about them saying they love you? Probably not. But if they chose to love you, not out of fear but actually out of love, then you'd feel a lot better about them.
It bothers me, why ask a question if you give yourself the answer. Talking to yourself is a good way to sort things out, but replying to yourself is a sign of insanity
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God bless
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Pampoon
always blame god, here is one evil is the absence of god like darkness is the absence of light... one cannot be without the other.
also almost all deaths and suffering has nothing to do with god as he punished us (you could say) for eating the damn apples (womens fault)
also almost all deaths and suffering has nothing to do with god as he punished us (you could say) for eating the damn apples (womens fault)
There's a mass misconception about the theory of "perfection." Perfection and utopia are not one in the same. God is not a cute fluffy bunny that spreads love and pink flowers across the universe; God is the creator and ruler.
When God created the earth there had to be balance, since God is all-encompassing along with light there must be dark. There cannot be good without evil, it's all relative and comparative. In a few words, it can be said that God created evil but not with the intent to spread evil but to give meaning to all things good and define piety in general.
When God created the earth there had to be balance, since God is all-encompassing along with light there must be dark. There cannot be good without evil, it's all relative and comparative. In a few words, it can be said that God created evil but not with the intent to spread evil but to give meaning to all things good and define piety in general.
| pampoon wrote: |
| Agreed. In order for there to be a winner, there has to be a loser. So in order for their to be good, there just has to be evil. |
However, in many religions there is neither. There's a saying: No matter what one's intention, all actions have both positive and negative results. I think most people would also admit that they are neither entirely good, nor entirely evil, by their own system of ethics. The logical conclusion is that the world is a mixture of what we call good and evil. There being no evidence that it ever has or ever could exist without both, the next leap is that both good and evil are necessary. Going one step further, not only are they both necessary, they are "two sides of the same coin." And what is the coin? You may call it creation, existence, God, mystery, the ineffable... It doesn't matter.
The best known symbol of this line of thinking:
My favorite, though, is the image of the goddess Kali, who simultaneously gives birth to and devours all things. Is that not the nature of the totality of life?
I hope that many people will agree in my vision that of everything in life there must be 2 forms. So that light will have dark as opposite. For peace comes evil and for so many things more so 1 form of a object is completly impossible because the rules of ethics will agree in my opinion.
So what or who created God ?
I suppose the correct response would be yes, but at the human's fault. From a Christian standpoint there appears to be a small hypocrisy. When posed the question "Is God all-knowing?", most faithful Christians would respond "yes". When posed with the question "Did God create evil?", most would more than likely say something along the lines of "No, it wasn't God's intention, the humans did."
... But wait, if it wasn't God's intention to create evil, but evil was created, doesn't that mean that God is not all-knowing? Or God does not have a complete "plan". (So many people refer to "God's plan")
... But wait, if it wasn't God's intention to create evil, but evil was created, doesn't that mean that God is not all-knowing? Or God does not have a complete "plan". (So many people refer to "God's plan")
| Soulfire wrote: |
| When posed with the question "Did God create evil?", most would more than likely say something along the lines of "No, it wasn't God's intention, the humans did." |
Those are some uneducated Christians, unfortunatly it seems that most of my brothers and sisters are that way
The question still remains unanswered?
Human mind is the beauty and the answer to this question. It is this mind which has actually created the GOD.
This mind always has fear from the day it evolved. Fear of animals, fear of deaths, fear of diseases etc., It also saw things happening which were out of its understanding at the begining. It saw lightning, it saw rains, it saw sunrise & sunset... All this amased him. Many a time insidense hapened which were not in his control like earthqaukes, volcanos...
All this was the creater of different images for this mind. Some good and some BAD, all the good happenings were termerd as Almighty the GOD and all bad, ugly the Evil.
One will find why we had many different GOD's like rain GOD, sun GOD etc.. its all the human mind has interpreted in it evolution.
So, GOD never created EVIL nor the opposite. Its the human mind which is responsible for all this.
Now the question is if GOD & EVIL is our creation, then who created the world, the nature our mind...
I think we mix GOD with this super power.. or I dont have the answer to this mystry....
Human mind is the beauty and the answer to this question. It is this mind which has actually created the GOD.
This mind always has fear from the day it evolved. Fear of animals, fear of deaths, fear of diseases etc., It also saw things happening which were out of its understanding at the begining. It saw lightning, it saw rains, it saw sunrise & sunset... All this amased him. Many a time insidense hapened which were not in his control like earthqaukes, volcanos...
All this was the creater of different images for this mind. Some good and some BAD, all the good happenings were termerd as Almighty the GOD and all bad, ugly the Evil.
One will find why we had many different GOD's like rain GOD, sun GOD etc.. its all the human mind has interpreted in it evolution.
So, GOD never created EVIL nor the opposite. Its the human mind which is responsible for all this.
Now the question is if GOD & EVIL is our creation, then who created the world, the nature our mind...
I think we mix GOD with this super power.. or I dont have the answer to this mystry....
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