If evil is separate from GOD, How can it exist when there is almighty GOD ?
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'God made man in His own image,\nIn His own image he made him.'\n    There is evil in us, so there is evil in His image. So, Evil is not separated from God. It is in Him/Her only, otherwise as per Bible, we, His image should not have these VICES.
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Why is there evil and suffering in the world? \nThe question implies that if a good God exists, then evil shouldn't because God, being all powerful, should stop it. \nWe need to ask and answer two questions. First, what is evil? It is that which is against God. It is anything morally bad or wrong. It is injurious, depraved, wicked. Some acceptable examples might be murder, rape, stealing, lying, and cheating. Second, if we want God to stop evil, do we want Him to stop all evil, or just some of it? In other words, if just some of it, then why? If He were to stop only part of the evil, then we would still be asking the question, "Why is there evil in the world?"\n     Let's suppose that someone was about to commit murder. God would have to stop him, maybe whisper in his ear, or if that didn't work, do something a little more drastic, like have something fall on him, or stop his heart, or make his hands suddenly fall off. Anyway, God would have to do something.\n      What if somebody wanted to steal? God would have to stop him too, right? Undoubtedly, God's imagination would permit a more practical method than I have suggested, but the end results would be the same.\n      What about lying? If someone were to tell a lie, then to be consistent wouldn't you want God right there to stop that person from lying? After all, He couldn't let any evil occur, could He?\n      Let's take it a step further. Suppose someone thought something evil. Then, of course, God would have to step in and prevent him from thinking anything bad at all, right? The end result would be that God could not allow anyone to think freely. Since everyone thinks, and no one thinks only pure thoughts, God would be pretty busy, and we wouldn't be able to think. Anyway, at what point do we stop - at the murder level, stealing level, lying level, or thinking level? As your question implies, if you want God to stop evil, you would have to be consistent and want Him to do it everywhere all the time, not just pick and choose. It wouldn't work.\n      Evil is in this world partly because we give it its place but ultimately because God, in His sovereignty, permits it and keeps it under His control.\n      Then you might say, "Couldn't He just make us perfect and that way we wouldn't sin?" He already did that. He made a perfect angel, Satan, but he sinned. He made a perfect man, Adam, and he sinned. He made a perfect woman, Eve, and she sinned. God knows what He is doing. He made us the way we are for a purpose. We don't fully understand that purpose, but He does. \nGod is sovereign; He has the right to do as He wishes. He has the right to permit evil for accomplishing His ultimate will. How can He do that? Simple, look at the Cross. It was by evil means that men lied and crucified Jesus. Yet God in His infinite wisdom used this evil for good. It was on the Cross that Jesus bore our sins in His body (1 Peter. 2:24) and it is because of the Cross that we can have forgiveness of sins. \nConsider the biblical example of Joseph in the Old Testament. He was sold into slavery by his brothers. Though they meant it for evil, God meant it for good (Gen. 50:20). God is so great that nothing happens without His permission, and in that permission His ultimate plan unfolds. In His plan He is able to use for good what man intends for evil. God is in control.
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F, because God (probably) doesn't exist, but if he did, then it would be E.  Some people say it was Satan, but the thing is everything Satan does he has to get the O.K. from God first (as seen in the story of Job)  It'd be kind of like how even though the Godfather doesn't kill the people in the Maffia, he does order the deaths.
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...And would heaven be redundant without hell?  Same meat, different gravy.  But while it's obvious that there are different levels of good, bad, the ugly and unadulterated evil (often found in the vestry), there is apparently only one heaven and one hell - nothing inbetween.  So what happens to the atheist who goes through life devoting every spare minute to charity, but insults god by not accepting his existence?  Or the loving christian, but who has been nicking money from the church fund all his life?  Christians make one particular claim which gets right up my true grit.  'Our god is good and is responsible for everything wonderful in the world - if anything bad happens it's nothing to do with our god.'  So I guess, yeah - if it wasn't for evil, their god wouldn't have much to be smug about, would he?
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Can God almighty create a thing which he cannot destroy?\n\nGod cannot do anything and everything. There are so many things that God almighty cannot do. \n\nCan God be born? One of the characteristics of God is that He is not born. If we say that God almighty was born, then there was a time when He didn't exist. And if there was a time when He didn't exist, For Him to come into existence, somebody has to make Him exist. So there is somebody else who is really God not Him. If we say that God almighty cannot be born, we are also saying that The Creator cannot become His creation. Because creation means what is in need of a Creator. To you be a creature, means that there has to be someone who create you. So if God became His creation, that means He is now in need of a creator. THIS IS IMPOSSIBILITY AND ABSURDITY! \n\nCan God create a stone which is too heavy for Him to lift? \nGod almighty cannot be unjust. The moment when God become unjust, he ceases to be God. Because it's one of quality of God almighty that he is JUST.\n\nThe Qur’an says:\n"Allah is never unjust In the least degree." [Al-Qur’an 4:40] \n\nGod cannot be cruel. \n\nGod almighty cannot throw me out of his domain. He can obliterate me. He can kill me. He can vanish me. But he cannot throw me out of his domain. WHERE WILL HE THROW ME? Everything belongs to him. \n\nGod cannot create a tall-short man. Yes he can make a tall man short. But no longer will he remains tall. But you cant have a tall-short man. You can have a medium man, who is neither tall nor short. But you cant have a man who is tall and short at the same time. \n\nnowhere does the Quran says that God can do everything, Quran says in several places that God has the power over all things. There is world of a difference between "Allah can do everything and Allah have the power over everything"\nAllah says in holy Quran (85:16) \n"He does what He intends (or wills)"\n\nWhatever he intends he can do. But God does only Godly things. He does not do Ungodly things. \n\nWhen we muslims say "God almighty can do all things", we are talking about all things that are consistent in Him being God. Not included the absurdity, impossibility and the things which make "God" no longer "God".\n\n\n\nISLAM HAS LOGICAL ANSWER FOR THIS QUESTION\n\n\n\n\nEDIT >>>>>> ==============================...\n\n"His command when He desires a thing is just to say to it, “Be!” and it is." (Qur’an, 36: 82)
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Absolute goodness is impossible. Its logical corollary is absolute evil, and if absolute evil existed, these two powers would cancel each other out. (Just like the famous example of the irresistible force and the immovable object).\nThe main philosophical problem here is defining exactly what we mean by 'good' and 'bad'. Sunlight is good - very good, or life on our planet would consist of tube worms and anerobic bacteria. However, too much sun is dehydrating and destroys life. So it is clear that sunlight is morally neutral, or if you please, morally mixed. Gravitation likewise - without it we couldn't walk on the surface of our planet, but when you're in a plane that has dead engines, you might wish that gravity didn't exist. Everything in nature is like this.\nOne of the key errors in theology is asserting that God is beyond nature or outside of it. Since by definition God/dess is omnipresent (everywhere at once) and infinite, then it is plain that there can be no place and no thing in which the Divine is not present. This is the 'heresy' of Pantheism, but it can't be refuted with logic.
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God is omnipotent, omnibenevolent, omnipresent, and omniscient.  Omnipotent:\n\nHaving unlimited or universal power, authority, or force; all-powerful.\n\nThe question you pose is not a matter of power.  It is a matter of integrity:  \n\nSteadfast adherence to a strict moral or ethical code. \nThe state of being unimpaired; soundness. \nThe quality or condition of being whole or undivided; completeness. \n\nGod is not divided.  It's not that He is not powerful enough to create a stone that can't be lifted, it is that His integrity cannot be divided and the integrity of the weight of the stone and His power cannot be divided.\n\nThe Bible names two things God cannot do.  One of them is that God cannot lie.  The inability to lie is not a matter of power but integrity.  \n\nBTW the other thing God cannot do is be tempted by evil.
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1) Ok, as to the answer of “God creating evil / bad” here is a story recounted by one of the users on yahoo answers. Unfortunately, I don’t know her Id, so I can not give her due credit for this wonderful story. I had loved it so much that I printed it out and pasted it in my notebook. With my apologies to the writer, here it is (abbreviated, since I had to type it and it’s long):\nThe university professor challenged his students with this question:\n“Did God create everything that exists?”\nA student bravely replied, “Yes, he did.”\n“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.”\nThe professor was quite pleased with himself and boasted that he had proven once more that religion was a myth. \nAnother student raised his hand and said, “Professor, does cold exist?”\nThe professor replied: “Of course it exists. Have you never been cold?”\n“In fact sir, cold does not exist. According to the laws of physics, what we consider cold is in reality the absence of heat. Absolute Zero is the total absence of heat. Cold does not exist. We have created this word to describe how we feel if we have no heat.”\nThe student continued: “Professor, does darkness exist?”\n“Of course.”\n“Once again you are wrong sir. Darkness does not exist either. Darkness is in reality the absence of light. Light, you can study, but not darkness. 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.”\nFinally, the young man said: “Evil does not exist sir, or at least it does not exist unto itself. Evil is simply the absence of God, just like darkness and cold; a word that man has created to describe the absence of God. God did not create evil. 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.”\nThe professor sat down.\n\n2) In relation to God punishing us for doing bad things…he does not. He knows that we will make mistakes; the problem is not when we do bad things…the problem is when we don’t REPENT. Repentance is in actuality, you learning from your mistakes and GETTING BETTER. In this life, we do wrong and receive the wrongs of others and through the two; we learn, understand, hopefully become compassionate and move on as better people. Those who get worse are not those who do the MOST wrongs; they are those who are blind and ignorant of that fact and so they never repent…they never LEARN…they never evolve…they never get better! In Islam for example, as long as you repent, God tells you to be ASSURED that you will be granted mercy every single time! God NEVER refuses repentance, no matter how many times you do the wrong and no matter how many times you return over and over to the same wrong as long as when you repent, it comes from the heart…because He knows that it is through it we know His mercy and learn to be tolerant and merciful ourselves with others; for we are ALL fallible by nature. \n\n3) As to the question of ‘why did he create the world’? Usually, but not always of course, those who think that the world is a horrible place are the ones who ask that. The worst things that happen to us or are committed by us to others are all in themselves opportunities in reality either to give us or others the chance to learn and be better…and that applies to the hardest and the worst of scenarios and obstacles. How many times have we heard someone say: ‘getting fired was the best thing that ever happened to me’ when in reality at the time of that occurrence, that person was utterly devastated. ONLY those who wake up from the initial shock of the ‘bad’ occurrence in their lives and make the willful dec
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I think that's a really good question. If I accept the premise that God cannot ask us to do anything that is not moral, then that implies there is a morality independent of Him. On the other hand, if I accept the position that I must do whatever God wants me to do, then I have no way to ascertain whether God is asking me to do right or wrong - I must simply do what He says.
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This is a very good question.  People that deny it are narrow minded and need to look at it for what it really is, truth.  It has to be either one or the other, for if there really is a god, then why were we created other then the reason that he needed something.  If god does not exist then it was man that came up with him, kind of like an imaginary friend, to comfort him and give him the answers to life after death.  Personally, I believe that if god cannot be needful, then man had either to had a part in making him seem so perfect, or man made him up.  That is my logic, there's not much to it, sorry for that...
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you're not suppose to worry. everything is happening as it should. There's nothinig you can do about. so really, there is no "evil" because it's being done according to a divine destiny. "good" and "evil" are illusions, and heaven and hell in the after life are illusions too. the bible says god is the alpha and omega, the first and the last, so we are born from God and we go back to God, regardless of what others and we may think. FACT. do the resaerch and you will learn that hell was put into the bible by constantine and the church to control the masses. Live every moment as if it's your last.
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it is the single being that many monotheistic beliefs claim are 2 separate good and evil entities.\nit lies making it`s believers choose good ("god") or evil ("satan").their choice, however is immaterial, as either option results in the entity consuming the soul of the believer as a form of nourishment.
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God does Not have a hand in all things.... Evil is a thing, acts of evil are things and God does not have a hand in evil at all, However God know of all things, and allows evil in this world for now.....for everything has it's season
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Before we ask that question, we need to ask another:  What is the nature of the relationship between good and evil?\n\nHere's my answer:\n\nMost people think of the relationship between good and evil as "one or the other".  I believe it is "presence or absence".  More fully, the relationship bewteen good and evil is the presence of good versus the absence of (or separation from) good.  Evil, therefore (according to this line of thought, which I happen to agree with), is the absence of good or the separation from good.    \n\nThink about light and dark for a moment.  Light is not a counterpart to dark, nor is it the absence of dark.  Light makes dark go away.  Think about that.  Light can't be defined as the absence of dark because it _causes_ the absence of dark.  Darkness only exists if light is taken away, by deactivation of the light source or separation from it (as in closing off a dark room from the light outside).  So it's the other way around: dark is the absence of light or the separation from it.  The relationship between good and evil works very much the same way.\n\nNext, evil is not itself a power.  Rather, it is that the separation of the self from good can have powerful effects.  If one chose to rid oneself of all good, one could accomplish powerfully negative and hurtful things.  So, you can do evil things at will if you really want to, but this is not because evil is powerful; it's because anyone who sets his or her mind to it can accomplish powerful things.  (Turning off the light doesn't make darkness more powerful; it only removes the influence of the light; we don't measure darkness levels, we measure light levels).\n\nPeople who are duped into doing evil, believing they are doing good, end up that way because their belief or faith is blind.  They are unwilling to question the rules and scriptures of their religion or belief system.  As a result of that, they get lost and become separated from good.  So, it doesn't really work to say that it is evil that controls them.  They are controlled by something within, to be sure, but it is their own unwillingness to open their minds and question things that controls them.  This is not evidence of evil, but rather of human weakness and of separation from good -- but the result of that separation from good can certainly be terrible.\n\nCan evil be controlled?  That depends on what you are asking.  If you're asking whether one can control evil within oneself, I believe the answer is yes.  Whether you fill yourself with good or separate yourself from it is a choice, just as you can choose to step into a dark room and close the door.  It's also true that you can end up separated from good inadvertently, but once you realize that you've become separated you can choose to reverse that separation.  I'm not saying it's easy to choose good, because it's not.  It takes a lot of strength and perseverance.  To live a life of good is to know that some others will, at times, take advantage of your goodness and to make one's peace with that.  \n\nIf you're asking whether you can control the evil within another, I think the answer is no.  You can only try to encourage others to change their ways.
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god is within you and everyone and everything. our bodies and the whole material universe is an illusion. to find god you must turn within yourself.\neach of us(not our bodies) has a spark of god within. these sparks in individuals are not seperate, they are one. we only think they must be seperate because we erroniously percieve ourselves to be seperate from others. don't look out into the material universe to find some god that talks like you do. look to the universe within yourself, for in the true reality that's where we all are and we are all the same thing.
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I know that, in my world, God exists. He, however, may not exist in someone else's world or, if he does, he exists different to him/her than me. I love God and hope that I am not led by blind faith.
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God never ordains evil.\n\nBut He permits it only when a greater good will come from it.\n\nThe ultimate example is the crucifixion of Jesus. God permitted this evil to happen in order to raise Himself up on the 3rd day so that we may believe in Him and be redeemed from the Devil.\n\nHowever, this does not excuse those who do evil. Those who die unrepentant in mortal sin will be separated from God forever in the place called hell.