(December 31, 2014 at 1:03 pm)Lek Wrote: God created the universe and God created the tempter. Since we can choose to do evil or good, we create evil when we sin. If no one would sin, then there would be no evil. It was really up to Adam and Eve in the first place and for us to carry it on.
No, evil existed before sin. Genesis is very clear about that. Even as Adam and Eve were pure, your god allegedly created a "Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil". If evil didn't exist, what knowledge could the fruit pass on to sully humans?
Additionally, you're absolving your god of his responsibility in creating evil. If I built a bomb and gave it to a child who knew nothing about bombs, and that child subsequently placed it unwittingly in a bus station and it killed 37 and maimed 174, would you throw the child in jail but absolve the bombmaker? Of course not. Yet your god is alleged to have created evil, created an agent to tempt humans into evil, and explicitly forbade his pet humans to learn about the nature of good and evil -- and for that, you castigate all humans as fallen, even as you exalt your god and claim him as the font of morality?
I'd suggest you think more about the nature of responsibility. If you left a loaded gun laying around the house and your toddler picked it up and killed himself while playing with it, you'd be prosecuted for felony child endangerment at the very least -- and rightfully so.