OK Two recent threads by CreativeSoul skirt around this, and raise the topic in many ways, but let's ask this specific question straight out.

Did God create evil, and if not, who did?

Not touching this one with a 20 foot pole

is he evil is a better question

Define evil.

And once again, it's easier once you realize there is no god.
Actually... No it's not. That's why people believe in a god. Cuz it's the easy way out.

The simple answer yes. God created all things "good". The universe is made up of opisites, good/evil, right/wrong, water/fire, etc. So by creating good he also created evil.

its a yin yang existance. One can not exist with out the other. For anything to exist there has to be a balance. We don't know good if we don't know evil.

Evil isn't a "thing" - it's an action. Or in some cases, a lack of action. Something is evil not by what it is, but by what it does. The result of which is considered evil. But without action - what is evil?

exactly

a binary system is so easy for the human brain to comprehend.Try eleven options...then you would truely understand the alien mind

WTF!?!?

I'm with ya 100% there..

An hexadecimal system would be a more logical one for them, but duodecimal might be more fun.
However I take your point, there may be more than two choices here, but that is getting away from the basic simple original question.

I can't find a chicken symbol on here.

I like that answer!

well,I think he did...........
tell me:
would you send your #1 child to be tormented,rejected,and killed brutialy to save everyone in exsistance/non exsistance?
plus,would you watch it all and do nothing?

would you;if you had the power to stop it;or allow evil things to continue like:
lies
incest
rape
kidnapping
abuse
murder
robbery
sickness
suffering
aids
cancer
people eating people
people drugging people
torture
pain
saddness
lonliness
divorce
adultry
crime
insanity
drunks
junkies
drug dealers
prostitutes
pimps
death
I could go on,but I think you get it.

Ms Enya, God also gave "free will" and God does not "control" us like puppets. Personally I have to agree with the poster's statement that says "evil is an action".

Certain other traits that people may see as "evil" actually come from God, since we are "created in his image". Like jealousy and hate. it states in the Bible, God is a "jealous" God. And God "hates" sin.

So many things can be complicated at times.

Just my opinion, not saying yours os wrong or bad.

God gave us free will.He hoped we would see how to treat each other and live in that way, but, with free will, we have a choice in how to treat others. Man/woman created evil if that means anything from bad behavior to murder. Life is many, continous lessons. We are the ones that, hopefully, are taught right from wrong. By our parents, teachers and other outside/inside influences. WE choose how to behave. Free will. God is good, all the time. All the time, God is good. We put ourselves in these positions or are found in vulnerable positions by those intent on doing wrong. They are life lessons. God created beings in His image and likeness, but, He gave us free will. That is where evil/bad things come into being.

Evil is anything that humans don’t like.

God gets credit and praise for everything humans like, and he has no responsibility whatsoever for things that humans don’t like.

That’s the story.

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I'LL TAKE A LOLLIPOP OVER THIS SUBJECT............