(March 30, 2013 at 3:28 pm)Godschild Wrote: I never implied an excuse, I gave an explanation of a loving God that could not have created evil. Though before creation God was not a judge, He had nothing to set as judge over, He became the judge after Lucifer fell to his own self righteousness. My question to anyone who believes God created evil ie. satan, does one create something he would so abhor just to be judge of the very thing he hates? There is no scriptural support for God creating evil. There is substantial support that God could not create anything outside of who He is.
So, God created everything, except evil, yet evil exists as something God did not create and has no direct control over. The only explanation is that The Adversary is a God in his own right, who is powerful enough to constantly thwart God, and that is why people have homo sex and listen to gangster rap.
I like how you are questioning the sense of your religion, but those are questions you have to answer, not us. Why does God create a being he knows will betray him and introduce evil into the world? There are only two logical answers
1. God is omnipotent and omniscient and desired to have evil introduced into the world. A being who knows everything does everything purposefully. He creates a being he knows is going to rebel and spread evil in his world. This is intentional and entirely by God's design. Evil can only persist in a world governed by an omnipotent being if that being wants it there.
2. God is neither omnipotent or omniscient. He lacked the power to prevent the spread of evil or do anything about it now. Lucifer is a being of nearly-equal power who has enjoyed much success in his endeavors to subvert God's will and there isn't anything God can do about it.
Epicurus had this shit all figured out long before the Jews ripped off half a dozen other myths and invented Jesus.
