Sentences with phrase «god creates evil»

The love of God creates evil so that He can overcome it?

Your God created evil and hell, it is not all love and goodness.

The interesting this is that in a passage that says that God created evil and peace, you wish for folks to naturally conclude that God is then evil.

Also, the bible says god created evil.

HawiiGuest I do not recall anything that would claim God created Evil.

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God has recently revealed the reasons for humanity's pain... Th Holy Mural Lecture Series explains why God created ALL light and darkness... ALL good and evil... ALL Heaven, hell, Earth wind and fire... You Tube / Holy Mural...

a) that the bible is an imperfect human representation of gods word b) that the bible is a mixture of mythology and divine inspiration c) that the bible was created in a way that people would understand at the time and intended to be updated d) that a pure message was corrupted intentionally by evil humans or spirits

An omnipotent, omniscient god that supposedly created the universe and all in it, would not have needed to create evil, disease, and illness in the first place and would have the power to eliminate evil, disease, and illness if it chose to.

God has recently revealed the reasons for humanity's pain... The Holy Mural Lecture Series explains why God created ALL light and darkness... ALL good and evil... ALL Heaven, hell, Earth wind and fire... You Tube / Holy Mural...

Wouldn't a god who admits to creating evil, have to be evil?

So this «god» you speak of created a bunch of sinners filled with evil just so he could save them?

I see the image of God in man through mans ability to form unseen thoughts into reality creating works of never ending wonder in the presence of evil that seeks only to destroy that which is good.

let alone the god they present, one who could have created any kind of world he wanted, like an author who has complete control over what shows up in a fictional work; why would god then giddily create / allow so much pain and evil?

@fimeilleur actually i can back up the claims i make both personally and historically, one example Abraham, Machpelah (actual location of his tomb and remains along with 5 others in Israel right where they are supposed to be) Kedorlaomer king of Elam, (defeated by Abraham and recently discovered) it is said Abraham believed God and it was credited to him as righteousness.More than that Abraham saw God and spoke with Him, not the god you are on about that men use to justify their evil intent, but the God who has created all things, the God that no one especially you can not contain.Ignorance is your choice but that will not negate the existence of God in any way.No one that i am aware of has all the answers at this point regarding spiritual things, evolution or evilution there are areas God has not yet revealed to mankind but every day more is discovered.I find it amazing that God is big enough to share discovery even with those who would reject HGod and it was credited to him as righteousness.More than that Abraham saw God and spoke with Him, not the god you are on about that men use to justify their evil intent, but the God who has created all things, the God that no one especially you can not contain.Ignorance is your choice but that will not negate the existence of God in any way.No one that i am aware of has all the answers at this point regarding spiritual things, evolution or evilution there are areas God has not yet revealed to mankind but every day more is discovered.I find it amazing that God is big enough to share discovery even with those who would reject HGod and spoke with Him, not the god you are on about that men use to justify their evil intent, but the God who has created all things, the God that no one especially you can not contain.Ignorance is your choice but that will not negate the existence of God in any way.No one that i am aware of has all the answers at this point regarding spiritual things, evolution or evilution there are areas God has not yet revealed to mankind but every day more is discovered.I find it amazing that God is big enough to share discovery even with those who would reject Hgod you are on about that men use to justify their evil intent, but the God who has created all things, the God that no one especially you can not contain.Ignorance is your choice but that will not negate the existence of God in any way.No one that i am aware of has all the answers at this point regarding spiritual things, evolution or evilution there are areas God has not yet revealed to mankind but every day more is discovered.I find it amazing that God is big enough to share discovery even with those who would reject HGod who has created all things, the God that no one especially you can not contain.Ignorance is your choice but that will not negate the existence of God in any way.No one that i am aware of has all the answers at this point regarding spiritual things, evolution or evilution there are areas God has not yet revealed to mankind but every day more is discovered.I find it amazing that God is big enough to share discovery even with those who would reject HGod that no one especially you can not contain.Ignorance is your choice but that will not negate the existence of God in any way.No one that i am aware of has all the answers at this point regarding spiritual things, evolution or evilution there are areas God has not yet revealed to mankind but every day more is discovered.I find it amazing that God is big enough to share discovery even with those who would reject HGod in any way.No one that i am aware of has all the answers at this point regarding spiritual things, evolution or evilution there are areas God has not yet revealed to mankind but every day more is discovered.I find it amazing that God is big enough to share discovery even with those who would reject HGod has not yet revealed to mankind but every day more is discovered.I find it amazing that God is big enough to share discovery even with those who would reject HGod is big enough to share discovery even with those who would reject Him.

Cosmology theory, by default, defines God as an Existent God, a perverse mega-creature, who created evil in the universe so we can step right into the trap.

If Warfield is not concerned with Catholicism, then why in his discussion of the kind of «faith healing» promoted by men like A. J. Gordon does he claim that it creates a class of «professionals» who stand between the soul and God and that «from this germ the whole sacerdotal evil has grown»?

That is an evil God, just because He created us doesn't mean we are His play things to torture at a whim.

Now if God can create any possible world — i.e., if one affirms «I» omnipotence — then it seems clearly to follow that no evil state of affairs in the actual world is genuine.

That is, while Griffin acknowledges that Plantinga affirms limitations on God's power in relation to possible worlds containing free human beings, he believes Plantinga to hold «that an actual world devoid of beings with some power of self - determination would be possible» and thus that God could have created a world containing no evil simply by creating a world containing no self - determined beings (GPE 271).

God is not evil, nor does he create evil.

But if (5) is true, then it appears that God could have created a world inhabited by free creatures who perform moral good but no moral evil.

Isaiah said God created darkness, and created evil / calamity / disaster.

Plantinga, however does affirm I2, in that he does believe that God could have unilaterally «brought about» a world containing no evil if he had chosen not to create at all or to actualize a possible world containing no self - determining individuals other than himself.

In short, if those dissatisfied with the classical account of nonmoral evil currently under discussion are not able to present a better world, «the (classical) theist does not have to show that it was impossible for God to create a better set of world - constituents or natural laws, or even that this is the best of all possible worlds» (IPQ 179 - 98).

(6) God can not make a person (P) significantly free with respect to an action (A) and yet causally determine or bring it about that P go right with respect to A — i.e., to create creatures capable of moral good, God must create creatures capable of moral evil.

If your good is «good» and the definition means anything, then evil ALWAYS existed, and your god did not create Reality, now did he.

(11) Accordingly, it is possible that it was not within God's power to create a world containing moral good but no moral evil — i.e., (3) is possible (NN 184 - 89).

Although my life (as I knew it) was destroyed by egos creating evil in my life, the blessings were / are that I'm closer to God than ever.

@Nicole If free will creates evil, then god did create evil, because according to the Bible god gave us all free will.

Hence, only the first interpretation is meaningful, and it can not be used to deduce from the existence of (genuine) moral evil the nonexistence of benevolent omnipotence, since «whether the free men created by God would always do what is right would presumably be up to them» (GPE 271).

Creating the universe from nothing, forging a union of human and divine natures, and causing the defeat of evil — each of these events would involve full ontological determination by God.

Observer, you can call God «Zeus», if you regard Him as our eternal infinite Holy Creator and Judge, who created all and will continue to create, whose purity requires purity to dwell with Him, whose love within overflowed to create man in His image with free will, who permitted rebellion for the purpose of destroying evil, and who surrendered His Son to allow us to use our free will to glorify Him and enjoy Him forever.

God created chaos by creating evil and this Luifcer guy, killed millions in floods, fires, disasters and then his own son.

In this kind of theodicy Gethesemane, the cross, and the resurrection are important foci for understanding the depths of God's love, who, in creating an unimaginatively complex matrix of matter eventuating finally in persons able to choose to go against God's intentions, nonetheless grieves for and suffers with this beloved creation, both in the pain its natural course brings all its creatures and in the evil that its human creatures inflict upon it.

Not to mention every verse in the Bible that asserts that God is in control of the universe, that he is the one who is responsible for unbelief as well as belief, that he created both good AND EVIL, would be wrong, meaning the Bible would be fallible, meaning that the validity of everything else inside it would be called into question as well.

God did not create evil or sin because evil exists only in a negative way.

Lem me see here, according to your holy book your God personally ordered more infant killings than all American abortion doctors combined, ordered the annihilation of half a dozen civilizations, routinely taunted and tortured humanity, introduced evil into the world then blamed the things he created for it (even though he's supposed to be omniscient and omnipotent), then abandoned humanity for at least a couple thousand years while making plans to come back and slaughter 2/3 of Earth's inhabitants so that he can judge them and throw most of them into a torturous hell for all of eternity... for not being able to overcome the nature your book says he gave them... Just so he can have non-free will - having cloud gnomes sing his praises for eternity.

It is a redemption not from the evil, but of the evil, as the power which God created for his service and for the performance of his work.

If there is free will in Heaven but no evil, that goes to show that God can in fact create worlds with both free will and no evil.

I get the idea that maybe God created me to be bothered by evil like that, even when it's said to have been orchestrated by God.»

Your god created everything including «evil», supposedly with the full knowledge of the consequences... so what you are in effect saying, is god wanted the holocaust to happen, since we would gain some small knowledge because of it.

First, if you are trying to say that evil serves a purpose for god it seems to me you are implying he created it... or it is a happy accident that we / satan created something so useful.

A God who creates humans who by definition must be evil because t hey are not God.

If god never created an environment where evil has the opportunity (some would say its encouraged) to flourish, evil never happens.

If God is saying that He creates spiritual evil, why does He juxtapose it with temporal prosperity, which is not at ALL its antithesis?

Hitler therefore created the environment for the Holocaust AND the Mechanism (just as god created the environment and mechanism of human evil).

Second, you are saying it tells us god is the one in control, yet you've already told us just the opposite, that god didn't create evil.

Also, since god created all of this, that means he created: Hel.l, satan, demons, sin, evil, dam.nation and so on.

Our best moral theories might seem to entail that nothing could justify God's having created a world with so much evil in it.

My question boils down to: Why would a perfect all loving, all powerful, all knowing god CREATE the VERY ESSENCE of evil, and would that not indicate that god is evil in nature?