Is God evil?

[Lady Crosstalk]

Do you believe God created Evil?

NO. What we think of as evil--that is immoral--is not a possibility with God who is totally right in all that He does.

 

[tzcho2]

There’s nothing created that he didn’t create

Genesis 1:31 "“And God saw every thing that he had made, and, behold, it was VERY GOOD. And the evening and the morning were the sixth day.”
Are you saying that God declared "evil" good?

 

[Waiting on him]

Genesis 1:31 "“And God saw every thing that he had made, and, behold, it was VERY GOOD. And the evening and the morning were the sixth day.”
Are you saying that God declared "evil" good?

Brought me to the knowledge of Christ.

 

[Waiting on him]

Brought me to the knowledge of Christ.

This knowledge was also in the garden he created. Before man sins. You remember the tree.

 

[CoreIssue]

Remember in that first about creating evil it is contrasting good and evil.

Mankind does both, usually as a mix of both.

As I said before, it's an issue of free will. If man cannot do evil he cannot be good. They are two sides of the same coin.

 

[tzcho2]

Brought me to the knowledge of Christ.

We need to understand the verse in Isaiah. God will allow trouble, disaster and afflictions which are caused by our own ungodly choices, and he uses these things to chastise, but this is not metaphysical evil. That verse in Isaiah is referring to the natural realm. It is like blaming God for creating sin. God did not create sin. The Bible tells us God is infinite good and He is Holy , Holy , Holy. God is Light and there is no darkness in Him. 1John 8:5 ...."God is light, and in Him is no darkness at all."

 

[Waiting on him]

We need to understand the verse in Isaiah. God will allow trouble, disaster and afflictions which are caused by our own ungodly choices, and he uses these things to chastise, but this is not metaphysical evil. That verse in Isaiah is referring to the natural realm. It is like blaming God for creating sin. God did not create sin. The Bible tells us God is infinite good and He is Holy , Holy , Holy. God is Light and there is no darkness in Him. 1John 8:5 ...."God is light, and in Him is no darkness at all."

Gods not evil, man is. Did you think I was saying God is evil?

 

[tzcho2]

Gods not evil, man is. Did you think I was saying God is evil?

I thought you were agreeing with those that said God created evil.

 

[Waiting on him]

Remember in that first about creating evil it is contrasting good and evil.

Mankind does both, usually as a mix of both.

As I said before, it's an issue of free will. If man cannot do evil he cannot be good. They are two sides of the same coin.

I don’t have any trouble doing evil,
But to do good I find not.

 

[Waiting on him]

I thought you were agreeing with those that said God created evil.

He created me.

 

[tzcho2]

He created me.

Human evil is an outcome of the fall of mankind.
Adam & Eve were not created as evil.

 

[Lady Crosstalk]

Remember in that first about creating evil it is contrasting good and evil.

Mankind does both, usually as a mix of both.

As I said before, it's an issue of free will. If man cannot do evil he cannot be good. They are two sides of the same coin.

Yes--babies and young children are innocent--that is, they don't have knowledge of good and evil. Jacob and Esau are described in Rebekah's womb as having done neither good, nor evil. (Romans 9:11) The grief that parents feel when their child does a deliberate evil for the first time (the loss of innocence) is just a taste of what God the Father and God the Son must have felt when Adam and Eve sinned in the Garden. "What have you done?" is a sob that echos through the generations of mankind. We have a responsibility to be like God--especially God the Son--but apart from Him, we seem quite incapable of being so.

 

[Lady Crosstalk]

Human evil is an outcome of the fall of mankind.
Adam & Eve were not created as evil.

They were created in the spiritual state of innocence. From the moment they sinned, they knew guilt and shame for the first time. They experienced a death of their innocence and all of heaven likely wept. Jesus maintained His innocence until death. "As in Adam all die, so in Christ shall all be made alive."

 

[Taken]

The word "evil" in Isaiah 45:7 is a translation of a Hebrew word that actually means-- calamity, distress, misery , adversity , affliction --it does not refer to cosmic evil or moral evil.
Cosmic evil occurred from the rebellion of the archangel Lucifer and moral evil occurred when Adam & Eve rebelled against God .

Ya, well we can split hairs...
God is Good,
God created man Good.
And any deflection from Good, results in the degrading of Good.
God does not Change...men change.
And the change in men falling away from good....has a multiple list of words it can be called;
Sinful, morally wrong, intentionally wrong, incidentally wrong, wicked, evil, dishonest, impure, corrupt, indecent, and on and on.

God can cause distress, misery, calamity, chaos, fear, destruction, death, etc.
And nothing He does or causes IS EVIL, but rather JUST.

Inasmuch as God created Good, so also did He create Evil, according to His OWN word.
I do not find the need to split hairs...

To answer the OP...Is God Evil? No.
God IS Good. And God IS Just.

Glory to God,
Taken

 

[Taken]

God creates out of nothingness. He creates by reshaping what is.

I would say, God Created from what did not Exist....
AND
"Makes" things from His Created things.

Freewill is the reshaping of what God made for one purpose to allow for another.

Freewill, I would say, is one choosing and doing what they elect to do.

Glory to God,
Taken

 

[Taken]

NO.

is not a possibility with God who is totally right in all that He does.

Well, I never said BEING Evil applies to God, I am simply saying God CREATED Evil.
Big Difference.

What we think of as evil--that is immoral--

But why ONLY immorality ?

Glory to God,
Taken

 

[Waiting on him]

They were created in the spiritual state of innocence. From the moment they sinned, they knew guilt and shame for the first time. They experienced a death of their innocence and all of heaven likely wept. Jesus maintained His innocence until death. "As in Adam all die, so in Christ shall all be made alive."

What’s the evil about being naked?

 

[farouk]

What’s the evil about being naked?

It seems that for the first time after the fall, Adam and Eve felt a conscientious wound about exposing private areas of their bodies.

However, if those areas are indeed covered, then I find it hard to figure why some very conservative Christians even try to give people on a beach trouble because of bikinis, etc.

 

[CoreIssue]

What’s the evil about being naked?

Sexual stimulation causing lust.

 

[tzcho2]

Ya, well we can split hairs...
God is Good,
God created man Good.
And any deflection from Good, results in the degrading of Good.
God does not Change...men change.
And the change in men falling away from good....has a multiple list of words it can be called;
Sinful, morally wrong, intentionally wrong, incidentally wrong, wicked, evil, dishonest, impure, corrupt, indecent, and on and on.

God can cause distress, misery, calamity, chaos, fear, destruction, death, etc.
And nothing He does or causes IS EVIL, but rather JUST.

Inasmuch as God created Good, so also did He create Evil, according to His OWN word.
I do not find the need to split hairs...

To answer the OP...Is God Evil? No.
God IS Good. And God IS Just.

Glory to God,
Taken