Why did God create evil?

[Jerry1023]

WHY DID GOD CREATE EVIL? Can someone counsel me on the reason why God created evil. I believe that the eyes of God is too pure to behold evil, I desire to know the reason why God created evil. your contribution can be of help.

[FreeinChrist]

I form the light, and created darkness: I make peace, and created evil: I LORD do all these things.   Isaiah 45:7

The above Translation comes from the KJV, but the NKJV states calamity and not evil, while the Complete Jewish Bible states woe instead of evil.  I would suggest that calamity and woe are much better for the translation as the thought is not that God created sin, but that He created the judgment for the sin.  We see this by reading the following passage:

Shall a trumpet be blown in the city, and the people not be afraid? shall there be evil in a city, and the LORD hath no done it?  Amos 3:6

One again the KJV states evil while the NKJV states calamity.  Evil is an acceptable translation but calamity gives a more modern understanding.  The Complete Jewish Bible uses the term disaster.  That is God will judge sin by allowing calamity, woe, disaster these types of evil to befall.  But He will never have anything to do with sin, with the exception of allowing His dear Son Jesus to become sin for us that we might be saved, John 1:29; II Corinthians 5:21,

 

So that we see that God is not the Author of any sinful thing, James 1:13,  who can only give us good gifts thru Jesus Christ, James 1:17; Romans 8:31-32.

[gdemoss]

There is a lot that can be said for perspective.  Our frame of reference lacks true perspective of Gods ability to deliver one from the evil in the world.  We are subject to evil, calamity, disasters and such the like and have a tendency to think less of God because of them.  Wasn't it God himself whonsaid he would raise up an enemy of David from within his own house?  

God is Holy, impartial.  This is displayed in the meeting between Joshua and the Angel of the Lord who when asked if he were for or against them said neither.  God doesn't rake sides and his host of heaven is not partial.  They are merely arbitrators who work all things to the counsel of Gods will.

The word punish is a good word to study to help understand this.  We all know that a pun is a play on words and that -ish is a suffix that means that which pertains too.  Punishment is that which is meeted out to balance for sin partaken of.  When Cain slew his brother his punishment was that tge ground that swallowed his brothers blood would no longer produce food for him in abundance as it once had which was perfect for his sin involved envy of his brothers sacrifice being accepted while his was not.  Then we see that Cain had children stained by his sin because they were a new generation of him who God gave many abilities too that would offset the suffering of the sin of their father they might use in trade.

It is obvious to me that God full well knew that The Devil would fall before he ever created a single thing.  He knew that Jesus would have to die and be ressurected.  He knew about all the wars and hardships.  He knew how evil I would be. And most importantly he knew that it was all temporary.  He knew that wars would end.  Calamity would lose out to peace and that the whole world would be in subjection to him through his Christ the Messiah.  

My persective has changed with time and experience.  In turn I have found that I have learned more about ruling over the evil present in my own house.  I find the beauty behind unbiased judgement of sin between siblings as my Father in Heaven reveals a need for.  

Rather than seek the answer of why did God create evil maybe we ought to work on becoming Holy that we might see and rule over evil instead of being subject unto the evil of the day.  Even Jesus our Lord commanded the wind and the waves and they obeyed him.

Peace!

[Sister]

WHY DID GOD CREATE EVIL? Can someone counsel me on the reason why God created evil. I believe that the eyes of God is too pure to behold evil, I desire to know the reason why God created evil. your contribution can be of help.

Jerry

 Isaiah 54:16   Behold, I have created the smith that bloweth the coals in the fire, and that bringeth forth an instrument for his work; and I have created the waster to destroy.

God is in control of his creation.  Everything was perfectly thought out and planned before creation even began. God is all knowing, knowing the end at the beginning. 

Isaiah 46:10   Declaring the end from the beginning, and from ancient times the things that are not yet done, saying, My counsel shall stand, and I will do all my pleasure:

 

Just because God created evil does not mean that evil dwells in him or with him, it's part of his plan that there be opposition.  If there is no evil then how does righteousness stand out?, if no lies, then how does truth shine?  If no transgression, then what part does mercy play? 

It's all structured.  Nothing happened by accident. God put evil here so that we can have resistance.  Evil is God's tool for separating the good from the wicked.  Evil is like a magnet, it will draw men who love it, and God created Satan for this very purpose, to divide.

Evil will be destroyed in the end after it has served it's purpose.
 

 

[AllTheGoodNamesAreTaken]

Yes, contrast. Light, darkness, etc. 

Just as darkness is the absence of light, and not something that is "created" per se, it exists. Evil is the absence of God.

"For by him were all things created, that are in heaven, and that are in earth, visible and invisible, whether they be thrones, or dominions, or principalities, or powers: all things were created by him, and for him:" Col 1:16

 

[enoob57]

There are a people who believe because of God's sovereignty that anything that is must be due to His will.... This however lies in
direct conflict with God's own witness of Himself:
http://www.gotquestions.org/Isaiah-45-7.html  creating evil

http://www.gotquestions.org/did-God-create-sin.html    understanding the why of sin

We know this has to be so for God proclaims:
Hab 1:13
Thou art of purer eyes than to behold evil, and canst not look on iniquity: wherefore
lookest thou upon them that deal treacherously, and holdest thy tongue when the
wicked devoureth the man that is more righteous than he?
KJV
The reasoning is- if God's person is such with disdain for evil He did not bring it about with His heart in creation...
Love, Steven

Edited August 29, 2015 by enoob57

[AllTheGoodNamesAreTaken]

"What shall we say then? Is the law sin? God forbid. Nay, I had not known sin, but by the law: for I had not known lust, except the law had said, Thou shalt not covet. But sin, taking occasion by the commandment, wrought in me all manner of concupiscence. For without the law sin was dead. For I was alive without the law once: but when the commandment came, sin revived, and I died. And the commandment, which was ordained to life, I found to be unto death. For sin, taking occasion by the commandment, deceived me, and by it slew me. Wherefore the law is holy, and the commandment holy, and just, and good."

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- Rom 7: 7-12

[Sister]

There are a people who believe because of God's sovereignty that anything that is must be due to His will.... This however lies in
direct conflict with God's own witness of Himself:
http://www.gotquestions.org/Isaiah-45-7.html  creating evil

http://www.gotquestions.org/did-God-create-sin.html    understanding the why of sin

We know this has to be so for God proclaims:
Hab 1:13
Thou art of purer eyes than to behold evil, and canst not look on iniquity: wherefore
lookest thou upon them that deal treacherously, and holdest thy tongue when the
wicked devoureth the man that is more righteous than he?
KJV
The reasoning is- if God's person is such with disdain for evil He did not bring it about with His heart in creation...
Love, Steven

Steven

That got questions site is blocking people from the truth.  Evil is evil.  The newer translations don't like that word evil and love to come up with all these alternative Hebrew definitions from alternative manuscripts to water down the truth. 

When God's word was made available to the gentiles and sent out throughout the earth, a very spectacular moment happened,  man could find God through the holy scriptures and trust his Word 100% to be accurate.  Salvation had come to the gentiles.  After a few teething problems, the holy scriptures in it's entirety was not released to the public in Hebrew, but in English, exactly the way God orchestrated and performed it.  The translators used were of God's choosing, as it was all in his hands that this be determined and accomplished.  ...But the enemy set out to destroy this trust we once had and provided learned men to entice us to be drawn away from this trust and lean on them instead for truth.  As soon as the Hebrew definitions became available to man, every man decided he would be the translator.  Well I think this is strange to appoint ourselves in this field when all the hard work was already done for us with God's hand on it.

All we have to do is read and seek what he is telling us, it's that simple.  Many are missing this point, and the world is carrying them away to a different gospel, a different Christ, and a different God to the one who is truly being revealed.

God created evil and he said so himself.  What we have to do next is to try and understand why he did this?,..what are his reasons and his motives in doing this?  We have to find these answers and be ready to give everyone who asks an answer that is solid and in total harmony with everything else he has revealed in his plan.

God bless.

 

[enoob57]

We all answer for the truth that comes to us that we accept or reject... What God had written down in Hebrew
must agree with what he has written down elsewhere in Hebrew else God is divided. We know that is not the
case! You have dismissed the reasoning above to satisfy you own demands of what truth is... I believe it is
skewed from what God teaches us about Himself. He has and never will have part with evil period! He did
curse the world for the sin that occurred and this is what God is speaking of here...
Love, Steven 

[AllTheGoodNamesAreTaken]

Steven,

Was that for me ? I wasn't aware that I have "dismissed the reasoning above to satisfy you own demands of what truth is."