Why did God create Evil?

[ska88]

Wow. Some of these comments are just so... immature. Is there not a way we can civilly discuss our ideas and differences?

Must one side stoop as low as the other out of compulsive offense?

Some of ya'll need to consider the source and not just think you're more mature than that, but practice it as well.

I feel like a mom, geez.

There is no such thing as 'good' or 'evil' there are only circumstances and the effects that they have on said individuals.

Unfavorable things can happen to one person that has a positive effect on another person. This is life.

It is these actions that have caused us to tie mystical properties to occurrences in our life and find a divine meaning behind them. As human beings we are a curious lot. We also find patterns in our daily life. It's these patterns and circumstances that have helped our brain develop into what it is now. But, despite the misconception that evolution creates a perfect product, we are not evolved as to where we could be. Our minds still struggle with morality, mystical thinking and lack of leadership.

tl;dr
Our evolution is the cause of these questions and the lack of mental power to conquer them. Evil and Good do not exist outside of the mind. These age old beliefs have caused us to create religion at an early part of our evolution when our minds were even more naive and impressionable than they are now. The results? Religions that are from multiple authors that contradict each other, mass relation and storyline/plot redundancies, Holy Wars, Genocide, emotional/physical torment/torture.

But humans don't need religion to bite each others head off. There are plenty of other things we can disagree about.

Although I'm muslim I really lovvved what u said.

That's wise.

The bad experiences and painful moment I had.. make me stronger and wiser.. and I appreciated many things I had and never noticed before.

I know I believe on God and religions and last day .. unlike you I guess .. but I have to say that what u said is so wise and deep.

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I had the same question when I was little.. but I never considered atheism as an option.. I mean being an atheist would not answer that question either.

How could you possibly suggest that atheism, a position without belief in gods, would not have an answer to the question of why god might have created evil, and a far more definitive one than any religion might produce?

My religion doesn't stop me from asking such questions at all so why not being muslim and asking such questions? If I find the truth somewhere else I wouldn't be hesitate to convert.

Because "believing islam" is not the ground state of being for people? It's an additional claim that one needs to justify themselves up to believing, not start there.

But I found the answer that satisfied me in my own religion.

Let's assume the opposite.. what if there is no evil? (Give ur self 20 minutes to think about that)

Then we will never know what is good!!

Bull: we've never known magic, but we can conceive of it. Human imagination is rife with things that didn't exist, yet were still conceived of. What makes you think that a simple opposite of a moral position is so advanced that it'd be beyond us, when quantum theory is not?

how will u know honesty if there r no lies?

By hypothetically picturing what it would be like to express a view that does not reflect reality.

I have to tell u that human brain can not imagine something that never exist.. u have to hear, listen or see the information first.

The human brain only creates new images using the information stored !!

U have to know than .. its so interesting ..!! I'll try to get a documentary or something to u about this.