If God is the world's creator, and you say He is a good God, why did He create all this evil?
- Questions & Answers
- Jan 17, 2024
Although Christ and His disciples have taken quotes from the sayings of the Old Testament’s prophets, however, the ideology of the Old Testament is entirely different from that of the New Testament because the Holy Spirit had not yet been given to man, nor had the grace of the new nature. Therefore, the Old Testament man’s knowledge of God’s will and His divine revelation was limited.
In the Gospel of Mathew, chapter five, verses forty-three & forty- four, Jesus says, ”you have heard that it was said,’You shall love your neighbor and hate your enemy.’ But I say to you, love your enemies, bless those who curse you, do good to those who hate you, and pray to those who spiteful use you and persecute you.’ So Christ, the incarnated Son of God, has revealed to us in the Gospel of the New Testament that God is the loving Heavenly Father, who has no evil or darkness in Him at all (1John 1:5.) And the question now is if God is good then where does this evil in the world come from?
The devil is the one who introduced evil into human life. God created man free in His image in freedom, and He deals with him from the standpoint of this freedom. Those who choose the Heavenly Father and follow His will and obey His commandments are the ones who experience His goodness and love in their lives. As for those who choose to live and follow the evil paths, these reap evil in their lives. So the devil spreads his evil spirit in the world through his men who obey him, and the Heavenly Father grants His love to the world through His children. Man has the right to choose freely to live under the umbrella of God’s love or to live in evil and reap the fruits of this evil in his life.
