Can Someone Answer This?

[dunnitall]

If religionists accept that their god created life on this planet do they accept that their god created good AND evil? I assume the two would come together because of said god creating everything apparently. If this is the case how can religionists justify condemning evil (in the name of god?) when it was created by their god anyway?

[jim360]

Well, someone had to try eventually!

[atalanta]

I went scrumping today. I just hope the owner of the fruit doesn't start two major religions based on scrumping, the same way it happened all those thousands of years ago.
We can't have gods repeating themselves, can we ?

[inksplotter]

Atlanta, you're not 12 by any chance?

[mibn2cweus]

It's probably not the best idea to try and make sense of any religious belief . . . and perhaps worser still holding out any hope for any religious believer making any sense of any such beliefs for you.

[goodlife]

You know Paul warned that in the last days there would be a lack of natural affection. (2 Timothy 3:1-3)

Nevertheless, in true Christian family, love should abound, both the love rooted in principle and the friendly, affectionate type of true love.

Is it really possible to love those who persecute us? During World War II, Jehovah’s Witnesses in Nazi Germany were brutally beaten and forced to do hard work on meager rations. Obviously, they could not feel much affection and friendliness for their persecutors. Nevertheless, they did show them the same principled love that Jehovah has shown to all mankind.

So when possible, the Witnesses shared with the persecutors the life-giving message of truth. And some of these enemies eventually became Christians.


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Persecution_of_Jehovah%27s_Witnesses_in_Nazi_Germany

[Peter Pedant]

Problem of Evil

One Bishop I asked, said, God couldnt stop it - and then said it was connected with free will....

Putting Good and Evil on an equal footing is Manichaeism and there arent v many around now.


COnnected are - why did God create disease ? and why didnt he create us immortal ( no death and all that ) - and to a certain extent the answer is well he didnt, let us get on with what he did give us....

[naomi24]

Goodlife, the Nazis considered themselves to be Christian, Hitler considered himself to be Christian. If God inspired the book as a guide to life, with all the conflicting ideologies it provoked, he did a rotten job.

[goodlife]

Naomi@ It just shows how evil people can twist things to their own advantage. Satan turns himself into an angel of light in order to deceive people. But as I have said before and will continue to say, they are not True Christians.
(2Cor 11:14)

[naomi24]

Goodlife, they don't need to twist things. It's all there. God didn't do a bad job of genocide and ethnic cleansing either.

[RATTER15]

Lol. Goodlife, even if common sense was tattooed in large letters across your forehead, you would never ever see it!

[goodlife]

No ,there is none so blind as those who don’t want to see!

Yes, Jesus warned against a ‘wicked eye and looked upon the poor in his day with compassion.
(Luke 10:23, 24)

[naomi24]

But Goodlife, I do see. I see it in the bible. Have a look. You can't miss it.

[RATTER15]

Naomi, he misses it every time he looks in the bible, as he says:

"there is none so blind as those who don’t want to see!"

[keyplus90]

Does evil exist?

The university professor challenged his students with this question. Did God create everything that exists? A student bravely replied, "Yes, he did!"

"God created everything? The professor asked.

"Yes sir", the student replied.

The professor answered, "If God created everything, then God created evil since evil exists, and according to the principal that our works define who we are then God is evil". The student became quiet before such an answer. The professor was quite pleased with himself and boasted to the students that he had proven once more that the Christian faith was a myth.

Another student raised his hand and said, "Can I ask you a question professor?"

"Of course", replied the professor.

The student stood up and asked, "Professor, does cold exist?"

"What kind of question is this? Of course it exists. Have you never been cold?" The students snickered at the young man's question.

The young man replied, "In fact sir, cold does not exist. According to the laws of physics, what we consider cold is in reality the absence of heat. Every body or object is susceptible to study when it has or transmits energy, and heat is what makes a body or matter have or transmit energy. Absolute zero (-460 degrees F) is the total absence of heat; all matter becomes inert and incapable of reaction at that temperature. Cold does not exist. We have created this word to describe how we feel if we have no heat."

The student continued, "Professor, does darkness exist?"

The professor responded, "Of course it does."

The student replied, "Once again you are wrong sir, darkness does not exist either. Darkness is in reality the absence of light. Light we can study, but not darkness. In fact we can use Newton's prism to break white light into many colors and study the various wavelengths of each color. You cannot measure darkness. A simple ray of light can break into a world of darkness and illuminate it. How can you know how dark a certain space is? You measure the amount of light present. Isn't this correct? Darkness is a term used by man to describe what happens when there is no light present."

Finally the young man asked the professor, "Sir, does evil exist?"

Now uncertain, the professor responded, "Of course as I have already said. We see it every day. It is in the daily example of man's inhumanity to man. It is in the multitude of crime and violence everywhere in the world. These manifestations are nothing else but evil."

To this the student replied, "Evil does not exist sir, or at least it does not exist unto itself. Evil is simply the absence of God. It is just like darkness and cold, a word that man has created to describe the absence of God. God did not create evil. Evil is not like faith, or love that exist just as does light and heat. Evil is the result of what happens when man does not have God's love present in his heart. It's like the cold that comes when there is no heat or the darkness that comes when there is no light."

The professor sat down.

The young man's name — Albert Einstein.

[dunnitall]

So where is the proof of god existing anyway?

[Khandro]

dunnitall; Your OP - //how can religionists justify condemning evil (in the name of god?) when it was created by their god anyway?
From where do you get this notion of yours that evil was created by an agent external to humanity, and further, exactly what do you mean by it?

[naomi24]

Keyplus, you’ve posted that story before – and it has been debunked before. Stop believing everything those silly, superstitious men you listen to tell you.

http://www.snopes.com/religion/einstein.asp

[beso]

Khandro. From where do you get this notion of yours that God was created by an agent external to man?

[Khandro]

beso; That is neither what I believe, nor what I have said. What are you talking about?

[beso]

It was a come back against your comment to dunnitall:
"From where do you get this notion of yours that evil was created by an agent external to humanity"

You implicitly DO claim that your God was created by something other than man when it fact it is a notion entirely created by men.