Almighty God created Satan and evils

[kevnmoon]

Why are devils created? Almighty God created Satan and evils; what is the wisdom in it? Isn’t the creation of evil, evil, and the creation of bad, bad? God forbid, the creation of evil is not evil, the ‘acquisition’ of or desire for evil, rather, is evil. For creation and bringing into existence look to all the consequences, whereas such desire looks to a particular result, since it is a particular relation. For example, there are thousands of consequences of rain falling, and all of them are good. If through mischoice, some people receive harm from the rain, they cannot say that the creation of rain is not mercy, they cannot state that the creation of rain is evil. For it is due to their mischoice and inclination that it is evil for them. Also, there are numerous benefits in the creation of fire, and all of them are good. But if some people receive harm from fire through their misuse of it and their wrong choice, they cannot say that the creation of fire is evil; because it was not only created to burn them. Rather, they thrust their hands into the fire while cooking the food through mischoice, and made that servant inimical to themselves. The lesser evil is acceptable for the greater good. If an evil which will lead to a greater good is abandoned so that a lesser evil should not be, a greater evil will then have been perpetrated Thus, the creation and bringing into existence of evils, harms, tribulations, satans, and harmful things, is not evil and bad, for they are created for the many important results they yield. For example, satans have not been set to pester the angels, and the angels cannot progress; their degrees are fixed and deficient. Thus, through the creation of satans and the mystery of man’s accountability and the sending of prophets, an arena of trial and examination and striving and competition has been opened so that coal-like base spirits may be differentiated and separated out from diamond-like elevated spirits. If there had been no striving and competition, the potentialities in the mine of humanity which are like diamonds and coal would have remained equal. This means that since the creation of satans and evils looks to great and universal results, their being brought into existence is not evil or bad. The evils and instances of bad that arise from abuses and the particular causes known as inclination or choice pertain to man’s ‘acquisition’ and choice, not to Divine creation.

[Invincibly Ignorant]

I think you're on to something.

Isaiah 45:7 I form the light, and create darkness: I make peace, and create evil: I the LORD do all these things.

[Larry Lucido]

Mmm, nutbars.

[Nihil Obstat]

"I think you're on to something."

I think he's on something.

[Larry Lucido]

Um, the Book of Beebers has not been cannonized. Stuned, yes, but not cannonized.

[Americanchild]

Despite the incoherent ramblings of this author, God did not create evil. Devils are fallen angels who chose to reject God, for they, like us, have free will.

[Invincibly Ignorant]

Isaiah 45:7. Hebrew Scriptures. The only way it doesn't mean what it says is by clever interpretation.

[NeoCaveman]

Um, the Book of Beebers has not been cannonized. Stuned, yes, but not cannonized.

Uh, what about the Holy Book of Armaments?

[Salamander]

*curtsying*


;D

[Michael Goldsberry]

Other apocrypha.

[Harmless Teddy Bear]

You would keep the Book of Beebers out of the cannon?

Heretic! Come here so that I may smite thee!

Or we could talk about it over coffee. Either way.

[Salamander]

Interesting page devoted to the issue;

http://www.carm.org/diff/Isa_45_7.htm

English translation is such a touchy thing.
Many years ago I taught myself Greek to read the NT and was surprised at how different some verses were from those I'd read in the KJV.

[Phsstpok]

a ZOT in the making, I feel

[Harmless Teddy Bear]

Hebrew Scriptures.

Nope. KJV.

Not the same thing. In other translations the word is disaster or troubles.

[kevnmoon]

Got created Satan as an Angel.. and It rejected.. Ok.. Same thoughts.. Thanks

[vigilante2]

Say Your Prayers
 

[Michael Goldsberry]

Have you read Enoch?

[whispering out loud]

Ok here's my two cents. John chapter one, "By him were all things made, and without him was nothing made that was made. God created all that was good, as a result, evil existed. Without evil there would be no good, good would actually be just the way things are, ie if you take out the valleys, then hills become prairies. God did not directly create evil, but evil is the absence of good, so by creating good, then he created evil by default. God is a perfect being, and would not create a world without balance. But this is just the ignorant ramblings of someone who has spent his entire life studying the holy scriptures of God. thank you, and God bless

[Invincibly Ignorant]

Many years ago I taught myself Greek to read the NT and was surprised at how different some verses were from those I'd read in the KJV

The New JPS Translation according to the Traditional Hebrew Text translates the word "evil" as "woe". In context, the verse contrasts "woe" being the oposite of "peace" and earlier in the same verse "Darkness" as the being the opposite" of light. The website you directed me to translates "Rah" as some type of "calamity". Evil, woe & calamity all equate to something bad, oposite of "good". Hence, I still think he's on to something.

[kevnmoon]

No, I haven't red it,yet.

[Baraonda]

"Why are devils created? Almighty God created Satan and evils; what is the wisdom in it?"

To compare and contrast and, ultimately, to appreciate good. Ergo, there is no good w/o evil.