If God created everything that is good.......who created the devil?
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God. (cheating) This explanation is what everyone eventually resorts to when the other answers fail. Now, before I go any further, I should make clear that I'm not talking about any of the gods defined in various religions. Throughout all of human history, we've been trying to explain existence. But nobody has ever succeeded. And it's likely that nobody ever will. So we create the concept of God, whose only necessary property is being "that which explains existence." \n\nThis doesn't tell us much about god, though. It doesn't mean that any particular religion is correct. It merely defines god as something which answers The Question, because we have not been able to.
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god created the universe and god created himself.
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Wow what a great question. So I understand. God created everything, he created the devil, and therefore he created sin. (which is the breaking of Law.. which he created!)\nSo when people say oh... its the devils work, its is just as much gods work too, just as much as a pretty flower is his work, so is the the Tsunami and 9/11... Ok so god is good.. but god is Evil too!\n\nHe doesn't deserve my worship.
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A - That good men do nothing and D - Evil cannot triumph because God will come and save us-eventually. I choose D too because its just an excuse and eventually leads to A. God has given the authority to deal with the devil in the name of Jesus, but many will prefer to leave and hope God will wake up one day and save them.
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our creator is the one and only God. he gave us free will because he loves us. the devil tricks us into committing sins, we are not forced.
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He came from someones imagination. It is impossible to has existed for eternity. Everything has to have a point at which it was created or began.
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I'm not sure how I'm gonna answer this, but here goes.\nLet's see: God created Lucifer (now known as Satan) as His second in command. Lucifer then saw how much better than all the other angels he was and thought to himself, "If I'm so much better than them, why can't I be better than God himself?" No one knows where this thought came from, seeing how God only makes perfect creations. The only logical place that it could have came from is freedom of choice that God gave them when He created the Angels. This freedom also explains why 1/3 of the Angels chose to follow Lucifer in his rebellion against God. After Lucifer and his demons (fallen angels) were cast out of Heaven, God seperated His angels so far away from Lucifer's that the demons know that they can never get back. Lucifer is free to come and go as he pleases in God's throneroom (as evidenced in the first chapter of Job), but he can never return to what he once was. This fact has angered him so much over the millenia that he's esentially declared war on humanity, God's most prized creation. The first battle in this war was waged on the day of Adam and Eve's temptation and fall away from God when Satan successfully decieved them to eat of the tree that God explicitly said not to eat from. The victory was prophesied not even a day later when the Spirit of the Lord walked through the Garden looking for Adam and Eve to felowship with them as He normally did, only to find them hiding from them, dressed in fig leaves. God asked them why they were ashamed of themselves, and then they went through the whole "it's his/her fault" routine, blaming each other for what one did. When the truth finally did come out (not like God didn't already know), God pronounced consequences on humanity (a series of hardships which can be read in Genesis 3), and cursed the serpent (as this was the creature Satan used to decieve Adam and Eve). The curse on the serpent also held hope for the redemption of Mankind, as it fortold of the defeat of Satan through the Crucifixion of Jesus Christ. The war was over before it begun! \n\nSo, to answer your question: Yes, Satan invented the concept of sin. He then successfully marketed this concept to himself, his demons, and ultimately to humanity. He even tried to get Jesus to sin, but since Jesus is God in the flesh (and God is perfect), he couldn't do it. Jesus was the only man who ever lived here on earth that lead a perfect life, one completely without sinning.
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If we could be good on our own power, we would be God.\n\nGod didn't make us just so that we would be weak. That is, this was not his aim. But what he created was people, not God. Why didn't he create God? Because there is only one God who exists outside of space and time--who always was, is, and will be--who IS, not who was created. Therefore, God cannot create God. What he made was a creature in his image, but who could not be him.\n\nGod takes no pleasure in our weakness. He has compassion for us because we are weak. This is why he sent our Son--that through Him, we might become perfect, not on our own power, but by the power of God.\n\nIn addition, God created within us the need for Himself. So that upon our constant failures, we would begin searching for the One who never fails.
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Who said God created them?
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If evil exists and god is against evil then god cannot be all good all knowing and all powerful at the same time.He either doesn't know about evil, doesn't have a problem with evil, or can't do anything about evil. \n\nThis is not about free will either, as if god is all knowing he would have known about evil before it happens, If he were all powerful he would be able to stop the evil, and were he all good he would not have created people who were going to do evil in the first place. \n\nThere is no way arround it, such a god would have created the universe for evil to be in it. He would have wanted evil. Thankfully there's polytheism.
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Is there a God???? Is there a Devil?????\nIt`s what the ivdividual person thinks and feels, If you want to believe in God and the Devil then do so, but keep everything on an even balance, It`s only people that are good or evil the so called God and Satan exist in peoples minds.
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Evil is the creation of the deity "god" plain & simple. He is the sole creator and therefore he created Satan and his crew. Sure he started out as an angel, but wouldn't the deity "god" see that one coming? His evil gives him something to do you know...so he won't feel useless.
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I'll say some divine construct created the universe and as a by-product man, and afterwards man created "God" as to have a defined reference point for all things unexplainable, and as the ultimate "source".\n\nBy the way other responders, is it Christian to attack your fellows, just because they have questions? I don't the person asking is illiterate, but maybe there's some ignorance hovering around looking to strike at that which is different.\n\nLove and compassion are best lessons brought to Earth, best that you keep those closest to your heart and behavior. Wouldn't hurt for you to bow and ask for some humbleness.\nCheers!
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Everyone and everything was made by God. Look around you. Do you think that everything could be how it is without God? There is an obvious creator for everything to fit like it does.
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God was created (by) the first man to think of him.
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The book of Job suggests that Satan was created by God. He was the greatest of the Angels, and his pride caused him to rebel against God (very similar to the Adam and Eve Story).\nEvil is the result of the brokeness of creation. When God created he looked and it was good. The consequences of human rebellion against God lead to suffering and death.\n\nSo you would be right to thing that God created all things but not that he created evil. The next question however is if God knew that evil would happen why did he still create?
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Simple...God created all things...including evolution.