Did God create evil?
Good day steemit... Most people always have this thought in their heart, if God actually created evil, because he is the creator of all things, and as the creator of all things, both in heaven and on earth, God must be responsible for creating evil.
But the truth is this, God did not create evil. Evil is not something you can create, evil is not physically touched or felt on your skin, you can't say you want a bowl of evil, or walk into a store and say you want a bottle of evil.
Evil can be seen as the absence of good. When God created the world, it was good and perfect and God made human in his own image and likeness. God gave humans and even Angels the gift of free will, meaning we are liabel to choose between good and evil. Between what's right and wrong. God never wanted us to be like robot , or computer that can't make their own decisions, he needed us to be free and do what we like and I think that's the greatest thing to have ever happen to man.
Evil can also be explained as thus, before God created the earth, it was filled with darkness, God did not create darkness, darkness is just the absence of light... When God takes away his light or his good, we are left with darkness or evil.
God did not create evil, but he allows evil, just to give human the ability to make a choice and there by making human make its own decisions. If God did not allow evil, both human and Angels would be serving him out of obligation and not choice, and God want us to make our choice in serving him or not to serve him.
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As finite human, we can never understand God ( Roman 11: 33-34 ). Sometimes we think we understand God, but on the long run, we find out that we know nothing about the ways of God. God sees things from a holy and perfect view, we seen things from our sinful view... Most times we would want to ask, why did God even create Adam and eve, knowing fully well, that they are going to sin and cause a whole lot of trouble for mankind... Why did God not just make us stay in heaven with him and be obligated to serve him . But I guess his ways are never our ways and his thoughts are never our thoughts. There are some things about God, that our physical bodies won't allow us understand, because of our sinful nature, but regardless of all these facts, we need to trust God and his judgement and decisions, though it might be hard for us, but it's always the best for us as his children.
Have a beautiful day.
Very good Andre - the team at Community News did not quite know where you would be going with this question. We do however agree whole heartedly with your premise. Designing us mere mortals to think freely and evolve into better versions of ourselves, gave us the capability to make evil decisions. Whilst many of us have a good moral compass, God has also given us the Bible to be our moral guide. Some however have no compass and refuse to be guided - eventually they will face punishment for their poor decisions though. One day.
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Nothing but the truth is what you've said... Thank you and God bless.
@andrewokeke this is truly an expectional post..... so many Christians are still confused about this fact: "if God truly created evil" .... thanks for explaining this fact with the steemchurch.
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@abiyeThank you so much ... I so much appreciate. God bless.
Expectional post about the creation of God and the fact if he created evil.....am truly inspired
Thank you so much and much appreciated. God bless you.
That's one question I love answering. When we try to assume when answering such questions, it results in fallacies. God definitely did not creat evil. Evil is the work of the Devil, perhaps why
evilcan be found in the name Devil lol.God created the Devil. But when he created him, the devil was not evil. He was just like everyone else. He chose to be evil. Everyone today have such decisions to make.
Even the bible said that in the beginning, everything he created was perfect and I doubt evil was there.. but evil came to existence through sin, all because God gave us free will, not to be obligated to him. Thank you so much for your comment. God bless you
I think all the evil we see around today is as a result of man's activities, not God. God did not intend for all of these happen, but as result of man's greediness and selfishness, here we are
Exactly and he did it out of love for us, he gave us free will, but man brought in evil
God did not create evil. Certainly you have been able to explain that with this write up. The whole thing has created tension all over the world! More of these kind of topics!
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Thank you so much and so much appreciated.
God did not create evil and neither is He to blame for the evil in the universe. 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 humanity any significance. God decided to make people in such a way that they could choose whether or not to obey Him.
True... And thank you so much for understanding.
Wow !!!
what an awesome post you have written
Many christains belived That God created evil
You have made us realise that Evil deeds were never originated by God but caused by the absence of of our Godly nature
Thank you for understanding and God bless and keep you.
Total trust in God and his judgements and decisions about our lives always yield rewards beyond our imagination.
Remember God can never be the wrong and He wants the best for us always.
This is an amazing work, this is facts, nice one...
Thank you so much ... God bless