Why Did God Create Evil?

[Hannibal Fox]

Right it's weird as hell.

Imagine if you had the answer key for a test..... and then proceeded to put a bunch of random answers on the paper hoping you'll get an A.

If God is real, I don't think he gives a shyt about whether or not we worship or love him.

I think God is just nature and the universe itself rather than a person sitting around testing us for his ego

Nature is our mother and father don't let anyone tell you different, when people climb out of the need to fall down and worship thought forms gone awry the world will be a better place.

 

[KingJay]

The world needs contrast. You lose sight of and appreciation for the good when there is no bad. You take things for granted, and have no sense of just how good the good things are.

There are so many things we already take for granted, and understandably so. Life itself and the complexity of our bodies... motion, senses, the brain, it's all so amazing and beautiful, and yet we never recognize it. Imagine that on a large scale, because none of these other things are nearly as impressive as what we already take for granted

 

[SunZoo]

There can’t be good without evil.

Because everything has an opposite to it

There can't be either without judgement.

God, the 'real' god, not flesh and blood beings depicted in some of these stories who have opinions and commands to follow has no judgement, only balance in relation to mans ability to judge and thus create 'evil', hence "thou shall not judge".

That's not a statement about morality as much as it is a formula to become self realized in your connection to what you see, and WHO and what you decide to condemn.

 

[CodeBlaMeVi]

Right it's weird as hell.

Imagine if you had the answer key for a test..... and then proceeded to put a bunch of random answers on the paper hoping you'll get an A.

If God is real, I don't think he gives a shyt about whether or not we worship or love him.

I think God is just nature and the universe itself rather than a person sitting around testing us for his ego

A lot of folks skipped my comment by accident or own purpose.

 

[Fade Runner 2049]

The actual word is 'calamity', not evil, and reading one verse out-out-of context is retarded.

The text actually details a prophecy of Isaiah about Cyrus the Great 200 years in the future.

Isaiah is saying that belief in 'G-d' is more important during bad times (calamity) as 'G-d' is still in control and will deliver Israel.

The 'calamity' at issue is the destruction of the Kingdom of Judah by Babylon just as the Kingdom of Israel had been destroyed by Assyria earlier.

Commentaries are available should you wish to study them and find out just WTF was going on.​

So what. In the beginning there was nothing. God created everything. He knows all including the future so whether evil, calamity were faults of man or not he could have prevented it or changed something lol. Give me a break.

 

[Mindfield333]

It’s a natural law, the law of polarity. Everything has an opposite

 

[knickscity]

The world needs contrast. You lose sight of and appreciation for the good when there is no bad. You take things for granted, and have no sense of just how good the good things are.

There are so many things we already take for granted, and understandably so. Life itself and the complexity of our bodies... motion, senses, the brain, it's all so amazing and beautiful, and yet we never recognize it. Imagine that on a large scale, because none of these other things are nearly as impressive as what we already take for granted

Where do you guys get this notion that you need bad to appreciate good? That's like saying a well prepared meal cant be appreciated unless we contract a stomach virus from time to time. That makes no sense.

 

[Child_Of_God]

We know that there is free will. The question was why did he create evil? Why is he going to wait to slay the beast instead of doing it when Lucifer was cast from heaven?
And if you think a perfect world with no evil is pointless then what’s the point of heaven?

There can’t be good with evil. God wanted balance, is as simple as that. As for Lucifer, I don’t have the answer to that admittedly but God certainly does have a plan to end his reign soon. In Heaven there is no sorrow, fear or pain. My guess is that God wanted people on earth to experience free will and the choice between good and evil as well as experience a wide range of emotions.

 

[Dafunkdoc_Unlimited]

So what. In the beginning there was nothing.

How do you know there was 'nothing' considering that's stated NOWHERE in the text?

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[KingJay]

Where do you guys get this notion that you need bad to appreciate good? That's like saying a well prepared meal cant be appreciated unless we contract a stomach virus from time to time. That makes no sense.

Because we have no context or anything to compare it by. If you only get good, good becomes the new normal. Humans adapt.

 

[Fade Runner 2049]

There can’t be good with evil. God wanted balance, is as simple as that. As for Lucifer, I don’t have the answer to that admittedly but God certainly does have a plan to end his reign soon. In Heaven there is no sorrow, fear or pain. My guess is that God wanted people on earth to experience free will and the choice between good and evil as well as experience a wide range of emotions.

Okay so Heaven isn’t real then? Got you

 

[Thurgood Thurston III]

A lot of folks skipped my comment by accident or own purpose.

I see it now.

I am not speaking on behalf of God and taking a crack at it. I will find out an answer from someone who’s more spiritually in-depth.

Maybe all things God created were meant to be good but turned bad and evil. Just because it turned bad and/or evil doesn’t nullifies that He created it. It’s a guess because I’m a new Christian.

So why did God let things turn evil? Is his power limited? I personally don't believe God is a being with intentions in the first place.

No one man gave us any rules. What's right or wrong is dictated by the 100 thousand+ years of collective experience of our ancestors.

 

[Lurk_skward]

What’s the opposite of zero?

Infinity is the opposite of zero

 

[CodeBlaMeVi]

I see it now.

So why did God let things turn evil? Is his power limited? I personally don't believe God is a being with intentions in the first place.

No one man gave us any rules. What's right or wrong is dictated by the 100 thousand+ of years of experience of our ancestors.

As a Christian, this will be my last comment on this. Free will. We’re not robots. We innately know right from wrong. That’s God talking and we decide to do the opposite so God likely is like . For his or her sake, they get right, find their way back to Him and repent, accept Jesus Christ as their Lord and Savior and walk the path faithfully.

 

[Tflasha]

God did not create evil. God could have made people in such a way that they would be robots who would react when God made them do so. But that would not give his most precious creation any significance. imagine being an Angel of God(Outside of Lucifer of course), filled with power and can do great things in the eyes of the lord by whom you're empowered by (A Holy Tool of Purpose) , but Angels being so close to God, that they have seen his unwavering wrath and what comes to those who ultimately deny him: you are literally scared(in respect and in awe), So Angels are one slip up away from eternal damnation) So they are Perfect with a condition, God made Lucifer so splendid, Literally the most beautiful thing in the history of his creation, Filled him with nigh limitless power, and with that (Lucifer got to taste what was given to man kind): "Free Will" - and with the power he possessed his eyes were opened and saw that with that power - he is not God's most important creation - So he slipped up and chose to defile his brethren basically he ate his piece of fruit in heaven when he took his free will into his own hands, he knew that giving mankind an alternative look on life could lead them away from God, God wanted to see what choice his creation would make in the same circumstance... idk. just me and my spin with a little inspiration.