Why did God create evil?

[gareb]

so then gareb believed the existence of God.. there's no use denying..

thats just it. i dont. mere supposition. nothing else. gareb<--atheist inside

i wont argue with people trying their best to fill in the blanks..

how enlightening. blanks that are being filled with half-baked information that wants to pose as truth. nah. can't have that either.

but one thing is for sure, we'll soon ask that question when life takes its last breath..

we are asking it now... and we are still alive... how much more when we are near death? christian apologia will not work dear, but i must admit... selfish tendencies... especially those who are about to kick the bucket, can overpower reason and logic.

[r/brey]

when near death, the famous "Pascal's Wager" kicks in.

Pascal's Wager (God is a safe bet)

"If you believe in God and turn out to be incorrect, you have lost nothing -- but if you don't believe in God and turn out to be incorrect, you will go to hell. Therefore it is foolish to be an atheist."

that phrase by the mathematician Blaise Pascal seems to have a good point but there are big flaws:

http://www.infidels.org/news/atheism...ts.html#pascal

[TieKnee]

simple...just for us to know recognize and acknowledge GOD's presence because he is the only one who can defeat evil...

[junnjix88]

simple...just for us to know recognize and acknowledge GOD's presence because he is the only one who can defeat evil...

so we have to believe in god for the sake that he is the only one who can defeat evil......

where is sencerity??
real faith??

we do good because we expect the reward of heaven...
where is the real essence of doing good without expecting something in return?

[silent-kill]

simple...just for us to know recognize and acknowledge GOD's presence because he is the only one who can defeat evil...

simply because he is the one who created evil...

so we have to believe in god for the sake that he is the only one who can defeat evil......

where is sencerity??
real faith??

we do good because we expect the reward of heaven...
where is the real essence of doing good without expecting something in return?

thats true, the only reason why people believe in god is because they expect something in return,...
what if god did not threaten man with hell,.. would people still believe in him?

[AnInO]

yeah i agree

[gareb]

r/brey: preha sa resource site do!

silent-kill: man is emerging to be quite selfish... wanting to believe in god so that he can go to heaven... somwhat related to pascal's wager. gezzz

[TieKnee]

actually we all have different beliefs on this...i opened this topic with my colleagues here in SYKES...the funny thing was we were all debating cause we have different views about this...but it was a very intelligent and entertaining issue that we had...it took us 5 hours to resolve it, but we decided to change topic na lang cause we really have alot to share...and they blame me for opening the topic!!!...where will this thread lead us anyway?...

as a summary to our discussion in the office: GOD didn't create evil...that's what we believe...good and evil are equal natural forces...neither of them was created by GOD...it is just our choice and free-will to either do good or to do evil..

[JawBreaker]

existemce my friends... existence of mankind.

[JawBreaker]

hala.. kyawa ning Tieknee da... gihuman na man ang topic?!!! grabeh... solve na tanan.