How did evil come about?

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so-jesus-e-deus said:
Since before God there was nothing and God is good, powerful and perfect, how then did evil arise?
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Sin (and thus evil) has no existence by itself, and was not created by God, who created all things. It is simply a possible attitude of soul, and its existence depends solely upon the will of the sinner. If all sinners repented all sin would disappear: it is only the eternal refusal of sinners to repent which will keep sin in eternal existence (and hence God needed an eternal prison for those who refuse to repent, it is called "the lake of fire"). God is in no way responsible for it: He has created free wills, but not evil wills. Sin was the child of the first will which chose evil, although the possibility, but not the actuality of it, lay dormant in the freedom of the will: but sin has no separate existence by itself: it is only a possible attitude of will, leading to sinful actions of body.
 
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Free will given to us by Father. All he wants is for us to Love him. But you cant have true Love if you don't have freedom of the heart. For me it's hard to understand how 1/3rd of us Followed Satan. Really hard to understand this. I guess it comes from the Freedom Father gave us. That's not to say it's Fathers fault, not by any means. I think most evil in the world today is from the Flesh and Satan's spirit influence on us.
 
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so-jesus-e-deus

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Magenta said:
Man had a choice: follow God, or follow self. Sin and death
entered creation as the result of one man's choice.
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But evil already existed before the creation of human being.
 
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so-jesus-e-deus

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OneFaith said:
And what does money do? It gives to holder what they want- which is even more specific. It started when Satan wanted to be above God. Evil starts as a self-centered desire.
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Even I believe that evil arose when Ha-Satan wanted to be as kind as the Eternal. As to the money, it ables the man to manipulate the neighbor, as though he was a god.
 
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so-jesus-e-deus

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In other words: What causes someone to be evil?


  • The Eternal created Him to be this way or
  • Did Eternal make him with such a weakness and he came to deviate?

Either way, either the Eternal is the author of the evil or at least condescending with it.
 
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so-jesus-e-deus said:
In other words: What causes someone to be evil?


  • The Eternal created Him to be this way or
  • Did Eternal make him with such a weakness and he came to deviate?

Either way, either the Eternal is the author of the evil or at least condescending with it.
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The key word to understanding what you ask is.... Choice....
 
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