RE: Why did god create evil?
October 24, 2011 at 6:58 am
(This post was last modified: October 24, 2011 at 7:00 am by lucent.)
(October 23, 2011 at 3:35 pm)IATIA Wrote: Why did god create the 'talking snake'? Did he not know what would happen?
How did the 'talking snake' get into the garden? Was god not watching?
This god must have known the 'talking snake' was more powerful than Eve and that Eve had no chance. So this must have been a setup from the get go.
God didn't create evil. If you check the bible, there is only one place that God is creating anything, which is at the beginning of Genesis. When God finished creation, it was "very good".
What he did create were creatures capable of choosing good or evil. I think this video explains the concept pretty well:
The talking snake was Satan, and yes God knew he was in the garden. God had allowed Satan to test Adam and Eve to see if they would keep His command. To say Eve had no chance isn't true. She knew what she was doing was wrong but she did it anyway. Because of that, death entered the world through their sin and the creation fell.
The world started out perfect, but because of sin the world is fallen and human nature is corrupted. God has been, at every step, working to restore and reconcile creation back to Himself, which culminated when Jesus broke the powers of sin and death at calvary.