Evil as an entity is a religious concept, it is not an entity and shouldn’t be used as a noun. There is good and bad ...bad is the opposite of good, we can understand the difference. Evil should only be used as an adjective to describe acts or people which cause intentional harm beyond any acceptable human behaviour. God is nonexistent, and therefore neither controls or prevents any human behaviour good or bad.

Why do people post this stuff? We already know there isn't a god. Why do people like to post stuff still asking questions?

Whatever your question is... The answer is, THERE IS NO GOD!

Until the Jewish tribe adopted and developed monotheism the gods worshiped were mirrors of men with all their faults. The god of the old testament was invented to support the actions of the Jewish people and destroy anyone else. The god of the new testament is a more benign character but it must be difficult and embarrassing for Christians to have to explain away the older version.

Bullshit

evil? please. evil is incredibly subjective. what's evil to you may be life as normal in other cultures.

I believe the error is and has always been in thinking that God is an individual, conscious being. The answer is obvious if you change your definition of God. New Thought religions believe god is a dispassionate principle or process. Our thoughts and actions bring about logical and usually predictable results. Some results are simply undesirable. Is an undesirable outcome just a natural result of something like a disruptive weather event or was their a negative intention behind it? There is nothing in nature that we could define as evil. Evil is conceived and perceived in the human mind and is usually created by negative, egoistic emotional responses to fear, anger, etc. Satan is just a metaphor for the human ego. Therefore all evil comes from Satan. "Get behind me Satan." Finally, the Divine Principle or Process is benevolent, without it everything reduces to chaos.

maaaaaaaaa, they are posting it again!!!

So, can you now let go of your fascination with Santa Claus, the Tooth Fairy, some "gawd", and get on with the living of your precious only life?

No one seems to be able to define evil in empirical terms, only through the lens of ethics and morality which vary from culture to culture and age to age.

If there is no empirical definition how can it be declared that any ‘god’ (which also requires empirical definition), ‘permits’ evil?

I propose that the individual knows their own ethical/moral values and so the whole question is a negation of responsibility in order to transfer their social transgressions on to a metaphysical being.

I absolutely do not believe there are any gods and see no reason to think any exist; but, should there be one, or more, I see no reason to think it is in any way benevolent. It either created evil, is disinterested in evil, or is impotent to do anything about evil--in any of these cases, it would not be worthy of being called a loving god and is certainly not all good and benevolent god.

re: "Some say God gives us a choice - so he permits evil- not benevolent."

Some choice: fear, love and worship me--and in the correct manner--or else endure my wrath! This god is absolutely not benevolent.

If a god existed, why would it need us to worship it. Why would care what we do? Religion is a creation of humans. The bible says that god created evil, or was it wickness.

A monotheism God who is creater of the universe must be responsible for all elements in the universe. Even if we attribute evil to a Satan like entity, God is responsible for creating Satan and reating whatever elements Satan made evil from. God would also necessarily have allowed Satan's existence as well as the effects of the evil Satan created.

The Epicurean Paradox used once again, though Epicure said it best 4 centuries BC!

If there is a god, his greatest creation is Liam Hemsworth. Am I right ladies?

Deists think "god" created everything, set it in motion, then withdrew to let things unfold as they will.
Not benevolent or malicious, not a personal deity who answers prayers or intervenes in any other way.
So free will is very much in play, not predeterminism...maybe this "god" doesn't know what's going to happen any more than we do.
After all, how WOULD "god" know the future? Why do people assume that? Because it knows "everything?" Why do we assume THAT?
People ascribe all kinds of powers to "god" it might not possess. And maybe deny it ones it MAY (like interdimensional, multi-universal, transformational, etc.).
"God" the word carries with it so much baggage it makes a refugee from the dating wars seem like a newborn babe.

I always wonder why the corollary argument is often neglected. If a god is perfect, the creator of everything, and the source of everything, then either A) everything that appears to obviously be imperfect is somehow perfect, or B) the perfect creator god doesn't exist. Which seems more correct? An obvious contradiction that can't be true, or an obvious conclusion based on all the evidence that is rather simple?

As an artist, I've always felt that everything created comes from within on some level. If 'God' created all,then he created 'evil'. So 'evil' is a part of 'God'.

Zoroastrianism and by projection neo-Platonism allows for such a circumstance as well asTaoism and natural flow.

But what is evil is actually a choice also.

You left out the part about god being all knowing. If god is all knowing, all powerful, all loving, how can evil exist. If "he" is all knowing, "he" knows evil is going to happen before it does & can stop it. Of course where does that leave our so called "free will". If god knows it will happen & doesn't stop it, he is either not all powerful or not all loving, as apparently "he" doesn't care.

So the traditional christian notion of god is nonsense

Is God responsible for Evil?

Amos 3:6 KJV
Shall a trumpet be blown in the city, and the people not be afraid? shall there be evil in a city, and the Lord hath not done it?

1Kings 22:23 KJV
Now therefore, behold, the Lord hath put a lying spirit in the mouth of all these thy prophets, and the Lord hath spoken evil concerning thee.

2Kings 22:16
Thus saith the Lord, Behold, I will bring evil upon this place, and upon the inhabitants thereof, even all the words of the book which the king of Judah hath read:

The above is not a Syllogism, as such requires two premise from which a logical conclusion can be drawn.
That which I believe you are trying to state, requires two consecutive syllogisms

If it is assumed "God" created all things
And if it is assumed "Evil" exists
Then It must be assumed that "God" created "Evil"

Therefore

If it can be assumed "God " created evil
And if it is assumed evil cannot come from the perfectly good
The creator "God" cannot be perfectly good.

No kidding

yes we know. we've heard it and misattributed it before. but since there are no gods, it's kind of a moot point, isn't it? anyway, evil isn't a thing. it's a description.

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