[freefallife]

Quote by: JLrep It's not as though you contested my last post, freefallife. God created everything in the universe. Evil is not a thing.

I appologize for overlooking your post. I'd be happy to show you how I believe it lacks any merit whatsoever.

To begin with, you contradict yourself. You state that:

God created all matter, energy, life, and goodness - the substance of the universe. Evil is not a substance

Bolding mine:
I would like to know how "goodness" is a substance while "evil" is not. Interesting point of view.

At any rate, moving on...lets just go off of what you stated.

Evil is not a substance. No kidding. You don't say. I think you missed the point. "Evil" is an idea that describes a human experience. While evil may lack "substance" it's experience is very real. Evil is anything that causes human suffering or pain. Since the horrors and suffering endured throughout the universe (disasters, disease, deformities) were all created by an omnipotent being, and everything which causes human suffering can be classified as evil, then god created what we experience and classify as evil. Hope that cleared it up for you a bit. God created evil, and he did it on purpose.

On to your analogy:

As an analogy, my computer is made up entirely of matter that was created by God - but nowhere are we lead to believe that God created computers whole and complete, as they are. He simply created us with the ability to create them using the materials He made.

What your analogy fails to explain are the evils that were in fact (according to theology) directly created by god, not humans. Floods, drought, earthquake, hurricane, tornado, volcano. etc. The very system of life on this earth is one based on death and destruction...one that REQUIRES bloodshead.

Obviously, your argument and analogy are fataly flawed.