Can God do evil? — Tough question…
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I’ve posted a new article. Atheists can ask a number of tough questions in the course of a conversation or debate with a theist that quickly lead to some interesting conclusions. The following question can be very effective:
Can God do evil?
It’s important to get the types of questions straight. A few entries ago I mentioned that an atheist should focus on asking a theist to explain his own actions rather than God’s — Why worship an apparently evil God? Rather than: Why does God allow evil?
It’s another matter all together to ask whether God is actually capable of doing evil. If He cannot do evil (for whatever reason), His omnipotence and praiseworthyness become highly suspect. If He can do evil, then there are some very interesting problems that arise for the theist.
Anyway, I entertain this question in a new article: Tough Questions: Can God do evil?
Let me know what you think!
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He already did, he created Satan. Evilest action ever made in the universe.
According to Judaism, Satan is the most beautiful and powerful of all angels. God gave him free will. And he chose to go against God. So God cursed him instead of destroying him or doing something more useful like removing free will, for example.
Anyways, God would have never created a world with no evil. It'd be, to put it simply, too boring for him.
Claiming to know what entertains God is amusing to read.
God knew exactly what would happen when he supposedly gave haSatan (which means "the accuser") free will. God is all-knowing, yes? Well then he knew what this creature would do and what every single consequence of that creation would be (death, suffering, struggle, temptation, billions of people in suffering and then eternal death and torture, war, curses, disease, and even the death of his own son by crucifixion). What do you think about a God who knew the dire consequences of his actions but chose to create haSatan anyway?