The act of God not wanting evil is what created evil?

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I do not know exactly what is your intention!

God is the unique creator and there is no other. You should say for other subjects to be cause of being created. I mean other subjects except God have no power to create but they can be cause for something to be created by God.

There is a statement in Islam : The deeds/actions are regarded to intentions. That mean the being important is intention of human. If someone make a gun for defending that is not evil. If smeone kill other with that gun as wrongful that is evil. Defending country by guns is not evil.

Delicate issue: God create action of triggering and death. But the responsibility is belong to human who decide to decide trigger/kill other. God had given free will. God say if you choice any action either good or evil but I(God) create.

Cars are very useful. If someone drive that wrongly but responsibility is belong to driver.

For instance God create fire. Fire is very useful we cook and heat etc. But if someone evil conduct with fire and burn house so the misconducter is responsible.

If someone use something wrongly he/she is responsible.
You EXACTLY explained my intention. Just because God created fire, does not mean he created it for evil. Just because God created a human for goodness does not mean that human cannot use free will to be evil.

The same as a fire can be used to cook or destroy a human can be used to love or hate.
 
I did not say God is responsible. I said God created action of evil. Satan have free will and human have free will. If satan or human decide to do something with free will God create that and it may be evil or good. Human and Satan here are to be responsible because they decide to if which action will be created.
You are putting yourself in the position of God by saying God created free will to do evil. Which is false, God created free will for humans to do good, it is the word of God,
 
Going on wrong way was fault of Satan. Satan had a good position initially. That is true. But what I mean God has eternal wisdom. So God knew7know satan would rebel and try to deceive humanbeings.
So what does that have to do with free will, I know there are women out there who try to get my husband to betray me, but I know it is his free will to betray me or stay true to our marriage vows.

By the way you are in contradiction with yourself, you first say it was the FAULT of Satan, then you say it was the fault of God because he knew what Satan would do. Pick a side.
 
You are putting yourself in the position of God by saying God created free will to do evil. Which is false, God created free will for humans to do good, it is the word of God,
If a will have no possibility to choice good or evil so it it is not free will. A forced will to do only good is not free.

Human or satan do evil choices but God have no responsible for that. Even God help human to choice good by prophets, religion, angel’s inspiration, good people’s advise etc.

Why did God create Hell?
 
So what does that have to do with free will, I know there are women out there who try to get my husband to betray me, but I know it is his free will to betray me or stay true to our marriage vows.

By the way you are in contradiction with yourself, you first say it was the FAULT of Satan, then you say it was the fault of God because he knew what Satan would do. Pick a side.
I think it is way of God to set human or satans free. God do not prevent human to do evil by force. Knowing is not a fault. But choosing evil is a fault. But anyone can ask that question: Why God do not make people to choice only good? I have no answer!
 
Since God made a conscious act to NOT want evil in the world, his thoughts alone created the concept of evil when he gave man free will?

For the concept of evil to even exist, God had to think of it when he thought “I love m creation and will decide to let it love me by it’s own accord. Hopefully it doesn’t choose evil”…thus, creating it?

The argument is…if God wouldn’t have even brought up the concept of evil by not wanting it…the concept of evil wouldn’t even exist…thus God created evil.

How do we refute this?
God is not subject to the laws that He creates. Evil must exist in order to be free will. Through the exercise of free will in opposition to charity, evil was known.

Genesis 3:22 Then the LORD God said, "Behold, the man has become like one of Us, to know good and evil.”
 
“Evil in the strict sense does not exist, for it’s always a deprivation; a lack of what ought to be there, like a cavity in a tooth or a cancer compromising an organ. Therefore, we should never speak of God as creating evil, and we should never think of evil as a positive force opposing God.”
  • Bishop Robert Barron on The Problem of Evil from the Catholicism Series Ep 3: “The Ineffable Mystery of God”
 
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