This was what I was thinking about today and I decided to write it down, so I thought I would post it here.
Without the existence of evil, how can there be good? Therefore, did God create the evil in the world as well? And if He did not, then who did create it? Who else has the power to create? Satan was the “origin” of evil, but if we accredit him with the creation of evil, is that not taking away the sovereignty of God? The word “create” is defined as “to bring something into existence.” If one being that was created itself can also bring something into existence from nothing, then who is to say that we all can’t? And if all have this ability, then who is the Lord that He should be God? I believe that although God did not create evil itself, for everything He made was good, I believe that He allowed the ability for us to do evil. He created the choice that we all have to make between good and evil, a choice that we face every day. When we choose the wrong thing – when we choose evil over good – the evil actions we commit and the consequences of those actions are a result of the choice that God created. In other words, the evil that comes when we sin is a product of the choice. God did not create the evil, nor did we. It is a result of something God created that we have twisted and used in a wrong way. We could always choose the good, which is what God intended for us to do, but we don’t always, and this results in evil. God provided us with this choice between the two, because without it, it would mean nothing that we always followed Him. We could do nothing else, because there would be no other option. We couldn’t love God if we didn’t have the option to not love Him, because He would be forcing us to love Him, which is not love at all.
