Posted on 12/18/2005 4:18:30 PM PST by kevnmoon
Why are devils created? Almighty God created Satan and evils; what is the wisdom in it? Isnt 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 mans 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 mans acquisition and choice, not to Divine creation.
God created free will...evil created itself.
God created evil and carried its consequences on His very own shoulders through Christ, furthering His Kingdom into Empire, empirics and share with us mortal beings. It's not God but Trinity.
Those refusing to admit that are in a special league if uerberEvils, or, rather, they are fools who want to be hurt by evil so as in a ploy to blame God and take His power.
It's not going to work because Christ forgave and resurected, the empirics validated, the salvation made possible, the erasure of evil a real opportunity.
Evil is the greatest opportunity ever for good:
1. One is freeer than he were free when safe when one gives himself the greatest latitudes in fighting evil. There is no greater freedom and daring than in bravely exploring and fighting evil. Even the smallest of child does that and tries while getting aborted.
2. Evil self-destructs ultimately because evil relies on good for its own subsistence, on constriction of latitudes for vindication, which it cannot do and can only self-constrict and selfhate in the process. Hell is a very voluntary thing, a choice indeed, and not a punishment from God, though those with conflict of interests would like to abolish these high laws inconveniencing them. Thus there is a parallel between wishful thinking and the treacherous constricting heart that has chosen hell and which wants to project and accuse others of punishing them.
Actually he did create all things. The laws of nature and science demand opposing ends. You have good and evil, light and dark. GOD is sovereign over all and controls the boundaries of all his creation but evil is as much a part of the creation as light & dark. But it was satans choice of freewill that manifested evil. It was there up till his rebellion and it was his choice to utilize it.
Free will of which evil is an unfortunate by-product is part of GOD's creation. But the knowledge of good and evil on earth was not known {as it was in the heavens} until the fall of man in the Garden of Eden.
Why such a plain and simple text? Why not one that allows equivocation, muffing, fumbling, and thoughts of wiser professors?
exactly
Can I have some of what you've been smoking?
ding ding ding....we have a winner Hugh, tell em what he's won !
Deuteronomy 32:4 He is the Rock, his works are perfect, and all his ways are just. A faithful God who does no wrong, upright and just is he.
evil is the absence of God
Anyone who tells you He is the author of evil is misreading the hebrew or greek.
To put a finer point on it, it is not of the nature of perfection to create imperfection. However, it is in His will to create "calamity".
pleasure to have spoken with you
Merry Christmas
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