Did God Create Evil?

Did God Create Evil?

It's a question I asked myself when I was a believer.  I mean if God created everything, then surely He must have created all things human, too, right?  He created Satan who is supposed to be pure evil (what's a good story without an antagonist?).

Yes, supposedly, the angels had free will.  And, yes, they rebelled against God during the Heavenly Civil War.  But, I submit that God, if omnipotent, created evil or at least allowed it to exist; not to mention that, if omniscient, knew it was going to happen.  Complicated, eh?

Many times during my 'chats' with believers, I will ask "Did your god create evil?"

And almost every one will say, "No."  They give several variants of 'man created evil by____________ (fill in the blank).

When I remind them that the Bibles says it in black and white, they then throw various excuses at me.  From, the interpretation of the Hebrew word 'rah' which is where the descriptors evil, chaos, devastation, etc. come from. To, God is a good god and wouldn't create evil. And, everything in between.

Yesterday, I was accused of not being a good enough Bible scholar. That's a new one for me.

Here it is in Isaiah 45:7

KJV (Cambridge Ed.) Isaiah 45:7
I form the light, and create darkness: I make peace, and create evil: I the LORD do all these things.

So, there it is. Black and White.

So, I ask you, gentle reader, what's it to be?  Study a bit more or read it directly from the Bible as written?

If the Bible in the inerrant word of God and can't be changed by man, then the believer has no excuse to deny, 'Did God create evil?'

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Evolving Mankind

Evolving Mankind

Mankind evolved enough to need gods and, then, created them.  When we evolve some more, we will decide to destroy all of them.  A paraphrase from a quote by  Emil A. Zafirov

As I've said in earlier posts, man has created a multitude of gods. Probably first created when the first conman found the first rube during a thunderstorm.  So, here we are in 2013, mankind has had gods to pray to for approximately 8,000 years and where are we?

We have a third of the world's population believing, or pretending to anyway, a god that supposedly created the Universe and knows the exact thoughts of every single one of Earth's citizens.  Imagine that! Here we are in a nondescript galaxy circling an even more nondescript star.  One among billions in this nondescript galaxy alone.

Then we have about one third of the citizens believing in, more or less, the same god but its message was relayed by a less than desirable 'prophet'.

And, the one third plus the other one third don't seem to want to play nice.  It's like two three year olds. One is a fairly well behaved kid who is generous but sorta enjoys meddling in other's kids business.  And, the other one is sly, distrustful and mean but is a master at playing the victim.

The other one third of the world's population is a mishmash of everything from ultra peace loving nonviolent types to nonbelievers.

The first two thirds are on a collision course without a mother, au pare, or guardian in site.

Children! It's time to put your gods, prophets and holy men where they belong on the trash heap of history before it's too late.  And, by too late, I mean we end up back in the stone age and start the need for gods all over again.

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