Inside the Glory of God. ( Who created evil )
I have a lot of questions that bother me all the time. But the most intriguing of all is “ Who created evil”. I know God is good. I know that there is no way, a God, who is so good, will create evil. But I also know God created all things. If that is so, He must have created evil. However, how can I reconcile the God, whom I believe to be the ultimate good will create evil which will eventually has the capability to destroy His own “good”. Most explanations I have found in my research point me to the direction that it was our freewill that caused this confusion. God gave us freewill to make our own choice to choose between good and bad. I truly agree on this premise but this does not really answer the question. Freewill gives us the freedom to choose between good and evil. A choice we have to make. And I understand and accept that “good” was placed by God. Then now, who placed the “evil” on the table? Who made it available for us to choose? Why is it there? Where did it come from? If it is the product of our imagination, again, why is it there. Who put it there in the first place.
In Genesis Chapter 1 verse 1 – 3 , it says, 1 In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth. 2 Now the earth was formless and empty, darkness was over the surface of the deep, and the Spirit of God was hovering over the waters.
3 And God said, “Let there be light,” and there was light. 4 God saw that the light was good, and he separated the light from the darkness. 5 God called the light “day,” and the darkness he called “night.” And there was evening, and there was morning—the first day.
When God created the heavens and earth, there was emptiness. There was nothing there. God felt something was missing. The Holy Spirit was hovering over the waters and found it unexciting. It was pitch black. So God said, “ let there be light” and He saw that it was good. And good was created.
On verse 1, it says, When God created the heavens and earth, it was empty, and “ darkness was over the surface of the deep”. So the space that is not occupied by heavens and earth is just empty and it is dark.
Then God continued to do the creation to fill in the heavens and the earth. Outside the heavens and earth is just emptiness and darkness.
When God created light and He found it good, He knew it was where His glory belongs. He created it and filled it with His glory. And that is where “good” lives. When He created us, He placed us INSIDE His glory. He wanted us to live and enjoy the “good” that is His glory. When He placed freewill in our minds, He gave us the choice to but “ NOT “ between good and evil BUT a choice between “ to be inside His glory which is “good” and outside His glory which is “Emptiness or Darkness”. If we choose to go outside His glory, we decide to go for the emptiness which is actually like a piece of blank paper. A place or a state of nothingness; a matrix of which anything can originate. There is no rules, no guidance, nothing. This is where anything can just be made. We can even create here an exact opposite of the God-created good. It is just a blank piece of space that we can put anything in it. And this is where evil came from. So sad to say, it is us thru our God given freewill chose to live outside God’s glory and thereby created evil.
Luckily, when God created us, He did not make us like any other creation. He breathed a part of Him in us. And with that, He made us capable to remember His glory on the other side. That breath of life keeps telling us to go back to His Glory. But again, our freewill decides………