YART: If God existed before anything... then did he create evil?

[brigden]

It's kinda like the Matrix, you see, in order for good to exist, evil must coexist. Yeah, that's the ticket...

 

[Josephus]

God allows evil as a price for our free will. Why? Without free will, love has no value. We'd all be a bunch of robots running around. What's the fun in that, eh? defining evil.... I'll leave that to the fundies and the philosophers... it's just how I understrand it.

 

[Dufusyte]

God created free will, which means creatures can decide not to fulfill their nature. Deficient nature = evil.

The upside to this is that when creatures freely decide to fulfill their nature, it is a free choice, which is a very good thing.

 

[dpm]

Originally posted by: FFMCobalt
Think of Evil not so much as a presence of bad things, but a lack of presence of good things in a universe that has a nature that digresses.

The syntax of this sentence gives me a headache.

 

[JulesMaximus]

There is no god. Get over it. You bible thumpers are all wasting your time going to church and reading the bible which was written by humans to help them deal with their fear of death and dying.

There. No need for any more YART.

 

[JulesMaximus]

Originally posted by: Sifl
God spelled backwards is dog, and the only dog I know is evil. Therefore God created evil.

LOL, I love the logic here. :beer:

 

[Epoman]

THE STORY IN A NUTSHELL.

:heart: <- GOD

:brokenheart: <- DEVIL

:brokenheart: "Your not the Boss of me"
:heart: "You must obey, I am alpha and omega the beginning and the end. The only GOD"
:brokenheart: " NO I am Better than YOU"
:heart: "Have it your way, now goto HELL"
:brokenheart: " Uh OH!"
:heart: "/SNAPS FINGER"
:brokenheart: = :evil:
:evil: "Hey this aint so bad, I kind of like it."
:heart: ":roll:"
:evil: ""

FIN

 

[flxnimprtmscl]

Because God is a prick. We're His amusement and evil adds little spice to that. I mean, Leave it to Beaver or The Sopranos? You figure it out.

 

[Paunchy]

Originally posted by: Epoman
THE STORY IN A NUTSHELL.

:heart: <- GOD

:brokenheart: <- DEVIL

:brokenheart: "Your not the Boss of me"
:heart: "You must obey, I am alpha and omega the beginning and the end. The only GOD"
:brokenheart: " NO I am Better than YOU"
:heart: "Have it your way, now goto HELL"
:brokenheart: " Uh OH!"
:heart: "/SNAPS FINGER"
:brokenheart: = :evil:
:evil: "Hey this aint so bad, I kind of like it."
:heart: ":roll:"
:evil: ""

FIN

This would only work if John Woo directed it.

 

[Epoman]

Originally posted by: Paunchy

Originally posted by: Epoman

THE STORY IN A NUTSHELL.



:heart: <- GOD



:brokenheart: <- DEVIL



:brokenheart: "Your not the Boss of me"

:heart: "You must obey, I am alpha and omega the beginning and the end. The only GOD"

:brokenheart: " NO I am Better than YOU"

:heart: "Have it your way, now goto HELL"

:brokenheart: " Uh OH!"

:heart: "/SNAPS FINGER"

:brokenheart: = :evil:

:evil: "Hey this aint so bad, I kind of like it."

:heart: ":roll:"

:evil: ""



FIN

This would only work if John Woo directed it.

Starring Jon Favreau as GOD
and Vince Vaughn as the DEVIL

:beer:

 

[ThePresence]

He didn't create evil, evil is not an entity. He created man with the ability to choose between doing good and evil. The first man that chose to do evil created evil.

 

[Epoman]

The devil was an angel one of gods TOP angels who wanted to be like GOD.
GOD threw him out of heaven. Thus Hell was created. Did my Smiley story not
teach you anything?

 

[Epoman]

Originally posted by: ThePresence
He didn't create evil, evil is not an entity. He created man with the ability to choose between doing good and evil. The first man that chose to do evil created evil.

If you read the bible the first person to do evil was a women NOT A MAN. She ate the damn (fruit) and made ADAM eat it too. The devil made her do it. The devil appeared as a snake/serpent.

BUT this is my belief and about 2 BILLION other people, we might be wrong.

 

[Yax]

God didn't create evil. He created all that is good, but evil is just the lack of the good things he created.

 

[Epoman]

Originally posted by: cheapbidder01
God didn't create evil. He created all that is good, but evil is just the lack of the good things he created.

The Bible says "I am alpha and omega the beginning and the end"

So that would mean GOD created EVERYTHING. thus he created the devil.