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God didn’t create evil. Is there something specific you’re thinking of?

• flukus 8y ago
  God created everything directly and indirectly, everything includes evil. Even if it was indirect, being omniscient makes him ultimately responsible for it. Either that or you start to get into pantheistic territory.
  • TimTheTinker 8y ago
    He created several classes of beings with the capacity for free will, since love freely chosen is the only kind of real love. Knowing that some would choose to hate him (or do anything else, for that matter) doesn’t shift responsibility away from them for that choice. Actually, the existence of evil is one of the biggest arguments for God’s existence via showing that there are universal, objective moral values and duties. Summary is —- one cannot call some actions evil except by contrast with what is morally good. We all know certain things are absolutely evil (although some atheists deny that). And moral accountability is impossible without a moral law and a moral law-giver.
    • flukus 8y ago
      > He created several classes of beings with the capacity for free will, since love freely chosen is the only kind of real love. Knowing that some would choose to hate him (or do anything else, for that matter) doesn’t shift responsibility away from them for that choice. If you knew your child was going to be the next Hitler would you conceive a child? If I told you I was buying a gun so I could go on a shooting rampage would you sell me a gun? Knowing the outcome of your actions makes you at least partially responsible. > one cannot call some actions evil except by contrast with what is morally good But if evil didn't exist we wouldn't need to contrast it with anything, it's not like it makes being good any better than it would have been in an evil free world.