Sunday, October 19, 2008

evil

If God created the universe, then God created everything inside that universe. If evil exists in the universe, then God created it. The responsibility for evil cannot be passed to mankind if God created it; He would be responsible for it. If God has the power to stop evil, then his refusal to stop evil is by choice, his choice. If there is a God, he is to blame for all bad things, because he has the power to correct it.

On the other hand, if God did not create the universe, God would not be responsible for creating evil, and evil would be the result of the one perpetrating it. By this logic, is it safe to assume that by the existence of evil, it shows that an all-powerful, all-creating God cannot exist?