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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Y2K" data-source="post: 2620258" data-attributes="member: 35049">Did God create evil?The Bible consistently explains evil as rebellion against God and His way of selfless, outflowing love for others-His way of giving. Evil is self-absorbed and uncaring of others, the way of getting and taking.God's way of life is expressed in His law of love, and evil is the violation of that law. Thus evil is synonymous with sin (1 John 3:4), which is contrary to God. Any calamity that He allows or brings is actually done out of love.But, some might argue, isn't all evil God's fault? The reasoning goes like this: Since God created everything, and evil exists, then God must be the author of evil.Yet the Bible paints a picture in which God, in the beginning, created perfect surroundings for the first man and woman to live in. "Then God saw everything that He had made, and indeed it was very good" (Genesis 1:31, emphasis added throughout). That included man. How, then, did evil come into the picture?The story tells us that a cunning "serpent" introduced evil into God's perfect creation. But Genesis 3:1 seems to say that God created the serpent, too, so that doesn't really answer the question. Maybe there is some force equal to or greater than God that is beyond His control. Or maybe God isn't good after all.There is a better answer, a biblical one. We have seen that God made everything good, without the presence of evil. Yet, in doing so, He created man with moral freedom-with the ability to choose between good and evil. God did not create evil. He created us with free will. That is the framework for the existence of evil.</blockquote>

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