Riddle me this: If God created everything...........?

At first it might seem that if God created all things, then evil must have been created by God. However, evil is not a “thing” like a rock or electricity. You cannot have a jar of evil. Evil has no existence of its own; it is really the absence of good. For example, holes are real but they only exist in something else. We call the absence of dirt a hole, but it cannot be separated from the dirt. So when God created, it is true that all He created was good. One of the good things God made was creatures who had the freedom to choose good. In order to have a real choice, God had to allow there to be something besides good to choose. So, God allowed these free angels and humans to choose good or reject good (evil). When a bad relationship exists between two good things we call that evil, but it does not become a “thing” that required God to create it.

Perhaps a further illustration will help. If a person is asked, “Does cold exist?” the answer would likely be “yes.” However, this is incorrect. Cold does not exist. Cold is the absence of heat. Similarly, darkness does not exist; it is the absence of light. Evil is the absence of good, or better, evil is the absence of God. God did not have to create evil, but rather only allow for the absence of good.

God did not create evil, but He does allow evil. If God had not allowed for the possibility of evil, both mankind and angels would be serving God out of obligation, not choice. He did not want “robots” that simply did what He wanted them to do because of their “programming.” God allowed for the possibility of evil so that we could genuinely have a free will and choose whether or not we wanted to serve Him.

As finite human beings, we can never fully understand an infinite God (Romans 11:33-34). Sometimes we think we understand why God is doing something, only to find out later that it was for a different purpose than we originally thought. God looks at things from a holy, eternal perspective. We look at things from a sinful, earthly, and temporal perspective. Why did God put man on earth knowing that Adam and Eve would sin and therefore bring evil, death, and suffering on all mankind? Why didn’t He just create us all and leave us in heaven where we would be perfect and without suffering? These questions cannot be adequately answered this side of eternity. What we can know is whatever God does is holy and perfect and ultimately will glorify Him. God allowed for the possibility of evil in order to give us a true choice in regards to whether we worship Him. God did not create evil, but He allowed it. If He had not allowed evil, we would be worshipping Him out of obligation, not by a choice of our own will.

MIMI

God did not create evil. Satan is the god of evil.

Better restudy the Bible. Jesus specifically states this in John 8:42-47 when He says that Satan is the father (source) of evil just as God is the Father (source) of good. You are confusing the physical world with the Spiritual world. God created all that is physical and He created it good after His character as He can do no evil. Genesis 1 shows this. Genesis 3 shows that all was good until Satan brought a different way of thinking that did not exist with God.

PS Isaiah 45:7 is not talking about evil, but the fact that because God set laws there are consequences. So God set both reward and punishment or a law would not be a law at all.

Well, I'm not really a believer in all that but as a riddle, it is simple. Evil is simply the things God forbids people from doing, and thus he creates the capacity for evil. Out of this capacity is choice to obey (good) or disobey (evil). In Judeo Christian sense, God does this for some good reason and sort of makes it all right in the end by sacrificing Jesus to the world.

Oh yeah, and God is not subject to the laws of evil, because wiping out assyrians, great floods, sodom/ghamorrah, etc are clearly mass murders. But that is another riddle altogether.

God created us not as robots but with a brain, a conscience, and the moral capacity to make our own decisions and choices.

He also gave us a holy book of instructions, examples, and guidelines to live a life of light and pleasing to him. It is all in the book.

Once you begin to read and study it from the beginning to the end it becomes so so so clear. Of course things we do that are not pleasing goes against his will for our lives, therefore it's dark and evil.

He loves us and realizes that when WE make CHOICES that are evil we or someone gets hurts somehow. He doesn't want us to hurt. However; the choice is ours.

God did not create evil. He created us with the capacity to do evil or do his will.

The choice is yours.

Think of it like this since we all are apart the body of God think of God as the Ocean, the Ocean overall is good but there are a few individual droplets ( us) that are evil, but these are the choices of the droplets not of the Ocean. Humans have choice and God does not interfere with what we decide.

Does a parent purposely give birth or create a son/daughter who will grow up to be a drug addict or serial killer? No, they make choices on their own that lead them to being such. It wouldnt be fair to blame the parent for the decisions they CHOSE to take. Same thing applies to God and evil in the world.

You know, if you study the scriptures your answer would be found. It's clearly stated that God created evil, and it's also clearly stated that God says "be holy as I am holy", because evil leads to death.

We didn't have to have evil in this world, but we let it, and these days the ones who embraced wickedness and evil are becoming more and more so.

No.

I'm atheist so i don't believe in god.

However, god gave humans the ability to think for them selves with our brains. We have been given choice, god didn't spawn evil. People spawned evil.

God is above Justice n Evil?

for every evil their is multiple of justices that counteract it?

Evil n Justice r tools of perception that god put in everything uses for us too understand?

if things dont stay in balance i guess evil would be the abuse of anything? n opposite would be stability or Justice

This should answer your query

Isa 45:5 I am the LORD, and there is none else, there is no God beside me: I girded thee, though thou hast not known me:

Isa 45:6 That they may know from the rising of the sun, and from the west, that there is none beside me. I am the LORD, and there is none else.

Isa 45:7 I form the light, and create darkness: I make peace, and create evil: I the LORD do all these things.

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Deu 30:19 "Today I have given you the choice between life and death, between blessings and curses. Now I call on heaven and earth to witness the choice you make. Oh, that you would choose life, so that you and your descendants might live!

Deu 30:20 You can make this choice by loving the LORD your God, obeying him, and committing yourself firmly to him. This is the key to your life