Talk:Debate:Did God create evil?

  Ans. Isaiah 45:6&7 "-----I am the Lord and there is none else. I form the light, and create darkness: I make peace and create EVIL: I the Lord do all these things".
  Reason: Romans 9:22&23 "What if God, willing to show his wrath, and to make his power known,endured with much long suffering the vessels of wrath fitted to destruction: and that he might make known the riches of his glory on the vessels of mercy, which he had afore prepared unto glory". 
  It may be clearer if you read from ver. 10 to 24 of Romans Ch. 9. 
  I think such a God would want to create, and for a good purpose. Col.1:16 "All things were made by him and for him." Gen. 1:26 "Let US make man in OUR own image." John 1:1 "In the beginning was the Word" (Christ) and, the word was with God, and the Word was God." It seems all was made for the glorification of Christ, and to exercize and exibit God's attributes.

http://www.tektonics.org/gk/godevil.html DanH 21:40, 20 October 2007 (EDT)

No he did not. He did not create darkness either. Darkness is merely the absence of light. He did not create cold, as cold is merely the absence of heat. And he did not create evil, as evil is only the absence of God. Lukecorlando

According to you, he must have!

Did God create evil? He must have, since he created everything else! I believe that if this god does accualy exist, then he is of our own creation! The concept of good and evil is nothing more than our own attempt at rationalization. Isn't it so much more simple to pass the blame than it is to accept responsibility!?

It's complex (so is everything else)

God didn't create evil. He created the choice and temptation and the idea of evil. On a clean slate, a blank mind, no thoughts whatsoever, no matter how empty ones mind is, murder (for example) is always wrong (in a lucid state of mind). See, God planted the idea of evil, and to stay away from it and then he planted the temptation of it. choice. because if God simply gave things away, we'd be dependant, and that's not the way He rolls.

After all, what is evil? Is mudering fellow man evil, no, that is a choice the man makes. He gave us choice.