RE: Why did god create evil?
October 25, 2011 at 1:44 am
(This post was last modified: October 25, 2011 at 1:47 am by chatpilot.)
According to the bible the sin that Adam and Eve committed all boils down to disobedience, he told them not to eat from the tree of knowledge of good and evil and God being the great dictator that he is depicted as in the bible made that the one and only rule. 'Then Yahweh God gave the man this command, 'You are free to eat of all the trees in the garden.But of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil you are not to eat; for, the day you eat of that, you are doomed to die.' Genesis 2:16,17 (NJB)
This whole situation could have been avoided if God did not place the tree of knowledge of good and evil in the garden in the first place. It's like putting an innocent child in a room with a bowl full of candy and telling him not to eat any of it, this is a simple case of curiosity killed the cat. God's so called "choice experiment" was doomed to fail. Also God's chauvinistic nature is revealed here because man being created first than the woman makes him the head of the family unit and the woman subservient to him. So although Eve was first tempted and later tempted Adam, he is also held responsible for not resisting his wife and remaining faithful to the commandment of God.
The temptation or "choice" was not the snake it was that damn tree! There is a recurring pattern in the bible all throughout its pages that basically put everything that happens on this Earth that is bad on man. This religion is a self loathing religion that requires you to debase yourself before a fictional being and grovel for salvation from yourself and your evil nature. This applies to both Judaism and Christianity and other ancient myths and belief systems. 'Yahweh saw that human wickedness was great on earth and that human hearts contrived nothing but wicked schemes all day long. Yahweh regretted having made human beings on earth and was grieved at heart.' Genesis 6:5,6 (NJB).
In conclusion, according to the bible God did not create evil. Evil is the result of mans disobedience to God, it's a consequence of our own actions. How petty for a supernatural so called omnipotent being to put us into this situation, and then blame it on his poor ignorant and finite creation.
This whole situation could have been avoided if God did not place the tree of knowledge of good and evil in the garden in the first place. It's like putting an innocent child in a room with a bowl full of candy and telling him not to eat any of it, this is a simple case of curiosity killed the cat. God's so called "choice experiment" was doomed to fail. Also God's chauvinistic nature is revealed here because man being created first than the woman makes him the head of the family unit and the woman subservient to him. So although Eve was first tempted and later tempted Adam, he is also held responsible for not resisting his wife and remaining faithful to the commandment of God.
The temptation or "choice" was not the snake it was that damn tree! There is a recurring pattern in the bible all throughout its pages that basically put everything that happens on this Earth that is bad on man. This religion is a self loathing religion that requires you to debase yourself before a fictional being and grovel for salvation from yourself and your evil nature. This applies to both Judaism and Christianity and other ancient myths and belief systems. 'Yahweh saw that human wickedness was great on earth and that human hearts contrived nothing but wicked schemes all day long. Yahweh regretted having made human beings on earth and was grieved at heart.' Genesis 6:5,6 (NJB).
In conclusion, according to the bible God did not create evil. Evil is the result of mans disobedience to God, it's a consequence of our own actions. How petty for a supernatural so called omnipotent being to put us into this situation, and then blame it on his poor ignorant and finite creation.
There is nothing people will not maintain when they are slaves to superstition
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