Why did God create evil?

[Visual C#]

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Yes, indirectly, pero gihimo gihapon, di ba?

[[DSX]]

Yes, indirectly, pero gihimo gihapon, di ba?

unfair na ug ing ana nga style...take for instance the ff situation.
years from now u have a child of your own..
your offspring committed a crime...
would you be liable for that crime and be willing to be put to prison?

pero ot na ta...
for me.. God did not create evil.. neither does man. we just have the capacity to do evil.. and that doesnt mean we created evil. basta mao na na! hehehe

[gareb]

hi bro!
Why would an all-powerful God permit evil?
God permitted evil to enter His universe as the price of freedom. Although He could have created the universe without the potential for suffering or sin, such a universe would not have allowed free creatures to exist.

question: is 'freedom' then worth it? god, in his immense and unlimited capabilities will not be tied to this dilemma. he can create a perfect world and a perfect human society ( utopia ) where there is no suffering and all that. but he did not. is his knowledge then limited? freedom, if taken in this context, is the ability to chose evil over good. yet a perfect society does not need freedom as evil is non-existent.

It would have been a robotic universe, with no more awareness of grace or God’s goodness than a colony of insects. There you have it.. hope that satisfies your question.

it will not be. utopia is free from evil, no manipulation, no opression, no boundaries, no evil. god (if he exists ) could have easily done that. but as it appears, he did not.

unfair na ug ing ana nga style...take for instance the ff situation.
years from now u have a child of your own..
your offspring committed a crime...
would you be liable for that crime and be willing to be put to prison?

cors not. then again, i could have not have known for sure that my offspring would commit the crime. but god, in his omniscience, does. and he has all the power to change this as he is omnipotent. he is bound to change it because he is omni-benevolent and would not permit evil to befall.

evil as the absence of god is unapplicable as god is suppose to be omni-present.

yet evil is here despite his omniscience, omnipotence,omni-benevolcence and omni-presence.

it is then either that

he did not forsee it, or that he did but he cannot do anything about it, or that he did and permitted it, negating his being "all good",or that he is not present at all times...

or perhaps, such being does not really exist at all.

my 69 centavos.

[FK]

God just give us free will... coz we wanted it. And the devil's strategy is to let people think God doesn't exist. and slowly the devil is achieving that.

[humbzz]

evil does not exist..
but sa ato ra na huna2x..
GOd did not make it..
pero kita ang naghimu ug evil..
kay gi unsa man kuno nimu pagkahibaw nga naay evil kung dili ikaw ang nagbuhat?
dba?!
supos to b and question to b ask is..

HOW DID GOD KNOW DAT WE NEEDED HIM TO PREVENT US FROM DOING EVIL, DAT HE GAVE HIS ONLY SON TO GUIDE US AWAY FROM IT

[Visual C#]

Yes, indirectly, pero gihimo gihapon, di ba?

unfair na ug ing ana nga style...take for instance the ff situation.
years from now u have a child of your own..
your offspring committed a crime...
would you be liable for that crime and be willing to be put to prison?

pero ot na ta...
for me.. God did not create evil.. neither does man. we just have the capacity to do evil.. and that doesnt mean we created evil. basta mao na na! hehehe

Basing from your example, yes, the parent is indirectly responsible, since without the parent, there would be no child; no child, no crime.

[FK]

evil does not exist..
but sa ato ra na huna2x..
GOd did not make it..
pero kita ang naghimu ug evil..
kay gi unsa man kuno nimu pagkahibaw nga naay evil kung dili ikaw ang nagbuhat?
dba?!
supos to b and question to b ask is..

HOW DID GOD KNOW DAT WE NEEDED HIM TO PREVENT US FROM DOING EVIL, DAT HE GAVE HIS ONLY SON TO GUIDE US AWAY FROM IT

and you would suggest that good is only in our minds?

[gareb]

God just give us free will... coz we wanted it. And the devil's strategy is to let people think God doesn't exist. and slowly the devil is achieving that.

the personification of an absolute concept does not really help clear the air. and to just accept these assumptions without further scrutiny and delibiration is just too risky that one might get a wrong conclusion that is farthest from truth.

good and evil as abstract and subjective concepts can be accpetable. but the acceptance of the personifications of either or both is still questionable.

[Bigfoot Oracle]

gareb: sounds like you are a fundamentalist atheist..teheheehe..peace! :mrgreen:

[gareb]

OT: if i am a fundamentalist anything id kill myself. tehehehehe! toodles!