If God is good and created everything?
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A very good question - Darwin used the specific example of parasitic wasps that paralyse their prey and lay eggs that eat the victim - alive - from the inside.\n\nI bet you get a lot of cut and paste scriptural quotes, but I have yet to hear a convincing reply from a theist. Bear in mind, as you say, that an omnipotent god did not have to create an ecco-system that relied on what, according to the sense of morality and aesthetics he supposedly created in us, a disgusting survival tactic.\n\nSuch examples are entirely consistent with natural selection but hard to reconcile with the concept of a benevolent intelligent designer!
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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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If bad things didn't happen in our life, how would we know the good things are good. If bad things never happened to us, how would we ever mature. If bad things never came our way, how would we know how [they] feel when they are going thru.. God will make something good out of everything bad in our lives if we love Him. That is a promise from Him. He always does for me. When something bad happens in my life, I ask God what He is about to do in my life. I look for something great to happen every single time something bad happens..
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Good question. Now, I am a Christian, so, will answer from my perspective and understanding. God is a being that is highly advanced in, intelligence and has the capability to Create. Not only life!!! He/She/it can bring into existence anything. Thus, through this creation, He does has Absolute power. This makes God all seeing, all knowing and all powerful. He can see, past, present and future from one time zone, so, he know what you did, are doing and will do. He expresses a concern for humanity (This is even seen it Highly intelligent children, so, NOT a myth). He would allow his creation to learn and experience life, both good and bad. He has emotions, He/She/It can laugh, cry, have hurt feelings and joke.\nGuess that enough, could say more.\nI like what Taimur say, yet it seems more from what is written than a personal relationship. I thought the question ask for my opinion not that of what is written, Sorry, if I answered wrong. I just went from experience and not Bible or any other book.
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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 the creator.HE expects glory and praise.God gets glorified and gets praise and prayer from HIS creation.PRAISE THE LORD.
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God created the matter
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i know that there is only one God because i have seen Him work in my life in ways that no one or nothing else could possibly do. God is amazing and you just have faith that he is real, he can change your life. do you believe in creation? if so then you must realize how amazing God really is to create such a complex world! He can do anything! i know that God is real because i see it when i look around me.
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Well, I'm a creationist, I believe God created everything in the universe. Darwinism is plain stupid and wrong. Can all the organization and beauty in the universe come out 'by chance'?? This is ridiculous, an intelligent power made it, and that power is GOD.
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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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NO HE CREATED US SO WE COULD HAVE OPTION TO MAKE CHOICES BECAUSE IF EVERYON E DETINY WAS TO BE SAVED AND ONLY WORSHIP HIM THEN WHAT WOULD BE THE POINT IN HAVING THE GOOD THE BAD OR GOD AND SATAN
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curse this question god created everything
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Jehovah God created the universe and everything in it.
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god exists, if you doubt it, then you are human, if you don't, you're still human, there is no reason to question your beliefs or faith, nor to question the beliefs or faith of others, in the end we all will die, reguardless of what we believe, then all of our questions will be answered, be a good person either way, if there is no afterlife at least you'll have had a good life
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If there is a god, he could do whatever he wants.  \n\nPeople say god can't sin but when you ask what sin is, the usually define it as going against the will of god.\n\nOf course god won't go against his own decisions.  That doesn't mean he won't be an evil bastard.  His will could be to torture you for no reason.  Tough luck for you.  Since his will is what believers define as good, torturing you is good.\n\nIn fact defining "good" as whatever is in god's will makes the word "good" meaningless.  The word "good" shold be defined outside of god's thoughts or action, then we can determine if god is good or not.\n\nOr, to make things much easier, we can realize that god doesn't exist and be done with it.
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anything is possible with God.
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If god really exists he would be everywhere simultaneously.