I’m an atheist. However, am considering God as a biblical character, therefore, real in its story.
If God can’t be evil then he can’t be good. There must be evil, otherwise the concept of goodness is not valid, and vice versa. So, to be good, he must also be evil.
In genesis, God himself created the Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil, so he probably knew evil… and how is that? How can you know what is bad when you have nothing or no one to show you what it is. There was only God before men, and when he create men, they had no knowledge of good and evil… so they couldn’t be an example for God to define evil. Saying that, God was the only one to have complete knowledge of good and evil, and how did he know that? Because he was good and evil himself.
When men ate from the tree and realized they were naked and told God, he asked who had told them they were naked, and understood that they had eaten the fruit from that tree. If noticing the fact that they were naked is a representation of acknowledging evil and good, and God knew that it was a result of eating the fruit, then it proves that God already knew evil… therefore, God is as evil as he is good.
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God is a being that loves. He created the universe, the world, and us creatures out of love. He created them not so that they could love and worship him, but so that they could be loved by him. God loves so much that he wanted other creatures to experiance that love, the greatest of all emotions. That is why God created the universe, so we could know what love is, not out of pity; that is a very unselfish reason (proving what I said).
My questions are:
- For God to love, he must love something. How can he love anything is there was nothing there?
- If he wanted other creatures to feel love, then there must have been creatures before he created them, otherwise, he would have created creatures from nothing… things that weren’t existents… only to make them love?
- Suppose he was bored and wanted to create things, from his own pure mind, to love (no very likely, but, anyway). Why then those creatures would have to kill to eat instead of surviving from love?
- If he created things to love, where do the other ‘emotions’ come from?
- You say he created the universe so we could know what love is. But we weren’t existent before, so we couldn’t even know anything for we just weren’t at all.
- How could God pity something if those weren’t existent?
- God had no reason to be selfish, as he had everything. So why did he create the universe? For fun?
- If he was the only being, then were the idea of CREATION came from?
- Why create anything if you are absolute?
- Was he lonely?
- If so, isn’t that possible that he is selfish, therefore not all good?
I could ask questions forever… but I will let you reply to those 1st.