Why did God create evil?

**coccyx** · 10-13-2003, 09:15 PM

hai nako, were here again.... oops!
in the beginning God created the heaven and the earth and so on... doesnt mention the creation of evil...

**gareb** · 10-14-2003, 04:53 AM

Originally Posted by Brahman

as needless to say, only bible can correctly describe its whole existence.

unfortunately, it is not only the bible that professes to be the sole authority when it comes to the existence of the divine. it would be too biased and subjective of one if we only base a perspective of such a concept as the divine in one limited ang dogmatic manner of seeing things.

plain logic would say to us that, as the concept of a "god" is suppose to be a concept of absolutes, and evil can be a concept manifesting an absolute, they are to a certain extent, related.

yet to say that all things ( concepts, ideas, etc. ) is suppose to come from this divine being, then presumably evil does come from it.

again, i reitirate, that if such divine being is a concept of absolute goodness, how can evil, in its absolute form, come from it?

for it to be the origin of evil then negates its being a concept of absolte good as evil is derived from it. therefore, based on the above arguments, we cannot trust this divine being, ( if it does really exist ) of doing good things all the time.

this is the paradox of evil.

**silent-kill** · 10-14-2003, 06:22 AM

sigh... the bible does not fully discribe god it is just a portion of god's discription, if the bible had completely discribe god then god is finite,

god created evil, for the reason that he is the source of all knowledge,wisdom, life, everything on earth as well as in the universe,is supposed to be comming from god, then how did evil just poped out from nowhere, or from free will??

if man was created by god then all potential things man can do good or evil must have come from god.

its like a computer program, the programer design it to add 2 items, then its pretty imposible for the computer program to perform substraction ..etc

if god did not put the potential for man to do evil then evil would not have exist
but he putted the "tree of knowledge in the middle of eden", even if he knows that man is prone to do evil,

even if he knows that man would/could/will fall to evil. then why did he still do it?

**junnjix88** · 10-14-2003, 09:26 AM

for the me concept of god did not created any evil...

perhaps the concept of "free will" created evil...

but it is being said that god is the one who give us free will...

it,s a cycle...

sus ka libug...

:

but i believe that all living creatures is packed with its own "free will" if they do bad things they created evil themselves they cant blame god or lucifer for what they did because if blaming them is possible they could sue them... hehehe!

**razzmatazz** · 10-14-2003, 09:35 AM

2 thumbs up ko ana!!...

but yaw lang kalibog..

**Witherwind** · 10-14-2003, 11:38 AM

so that there can be an equilibrium.

**junnjix88** · 10-14-2003, 01:42 PM

OT: kta man ko anang salidaha, action kaayo.

**gareb** · 10-14-2003, 10:32 PM

Originally Posted by junnjix88

for the me concept of god did not created any evil...

perhaps the concept of "free will" created evil...

but it is being said that god is the one who give us free will...

it,s a cycle...

sus ka libug...

:

but i believe that all living creatures is packed with its own "free will" if they do bad things they created evil themselves they cant blame god or lucifer for what they did because if blaming them is possible he could sue them... hehehe!

the idea of free will is blotched. it is too conventional. it delegates the divine's responsibility of creation to humankind. the divine knows what is to happen eventually (omnicient) and has the power to alter it (omnipotent).

being inferior creatures that we are suppose to be (a product of his/her/its mind) we cannot, to a certain extent, be blamed for the mistakes that we commit every single day, as it is humanity's nature to do so, which incidentally is reputed to come from the divine.

i believe that whatever happens to this world and the creatures that are in it, god, though did not necessarily directly commit the mistakes, cannot altogether escape responsibility. he is suppose to be the one who created the world after all. he gave humanity the weaknessess of evil and "freewill" on top of that.

yes of course, humanity has a share of blame in each and every evil thing that he does. but one begins to wonder, that the perfection of the divine's plan is not so perfect at all, and it is not because of "freewill" but because it made the mistake at the first place.

**silent-kill** · 10-15-2003, 01:17 AM

then if this is the case, freewill is not a gift but a curse..

what i mean is freewill is not so free at all since you'll just be commiting sins, if you choose something that does not pleased god..

**Junmatt_ph** · 10-15-2003, 04:01 AM

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