analysis of who created evil
This paper will serve to determine whether God created evil or man created evil, taken solely from a Christian perspective. Ever since the beginning of time, our reality has been based on the conflict between good and evil. From the story of Adam and Eve to modern day, everything done by the human race has been a battle between good and evil. Many theologians and scholars have tried to argue the creation of evil. They question if God created it or if man and his perversion of the good created it. Some even believe it goes back farther than that, to the angels and Lucifer. Still, many have reached the conclusion that evil is man's perversion of God's great gift of free will. However, I do not agree. I believe that evil is inherent in man, just like his human nature is inherently evil. I believe that God, whether directly or indirectly created evil. This notion will be proven throughout the remainder of the essay. Because we understand God as all knowing, it is quite odd that if in fact He were all knowing, He would have known that Satan would be evil and bring evil into the world. Consequently, God should have possessed the power to stop that from happening. Again some would say that it was His love that allowed Luci
Even in the Garden of Eden man did not know evil. Adam did not know that eating from the one tree in the centre of Eden was evil until God told him. So, why would God put the tree there in the first place if he did not want man to eat it? He knew that Adam and Eve would eat the fruit and he knew what would happen when they did because God is 'all knowing'. So what was His reason for putting evil with man, why was the tree placed in the Garden of Eden? It was put there so man would have a choice between evil and God. The Lord knew that his gift of free will would be meaningless if man had no other option but to obey and worship God. He did not want man to love him because there was no other choice; He wanted man to love him because he chooses God over evil. That is why the tree was placed in easy access to Adam and Eve, and that is why the good Lord allowed the entrance of evil into the world. He was greatly disappointed when chose evil, but He knew that if He did not! he Lord destroyed Sodom and killed some Egyptians to free the Jews, His actions were not evil, nor did He commit an evil act. The fact that people were killed is evil. The actual taking of life, in and of itself, is evil. So in doing so God does not do evil. The killing done by the Lord is just because, more times than not, good will come out of it. Many would argue that the taking of one's life is not evil because God has the right to take life even when unjustified due to the fact that He is above the laws that He has given to humans. That is somewhat false because God gave us those laws, in part, to define evil. In conclusion, I believe that I have given strong evidence to back up my idea that God, either directly or indirectly, created evil. That is not a bad thing because all the reasons that God allows for evil to exist are for good reasons. One of those reasons is so that our free will can truly be a gift in the respect that we have a real choice. He created, or allowed the creation of evil so that when we experience evil we will know better what good is and how to achieve it. When we choose God, we are doing so because our love for him is so strong that it can overcome all evil. In essence, that means that good and evil have been in existence since our reality began
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Approximate Pages = 6 (250 words per page double spaced)
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