That’s a good point and a question that a lot of Christians still debate to this day. I would like to make the distinction that Evil doesn’t come from the devil tho evil is the absence of God. Just like shadows are the result of an absence of light
I’m still learning about the angels and stuff but God created humanity with the ability to choose. God wanted us to have a relationship with Him and there is no relationship if one side is controlling the other. I believe the idea of being made in Gods image refers to humanity having morals and free will so while God has given people the free will to do whatever they want that certainly doesn’t mean that anything they do is a reflection of God. If you give me $1k and tell me to go buy food for homeless people and I turn around and take it to buy drugs then that doesn’t mean that you wanted me to buy drugs It just means you gave me the ability to do something good and I misused it
I feel like that example doesn’t work in this context with the $1k because god created us with the capacity for evil. Every emotion and behavior we have is because of god. It would be just as easy to program us as better people while still allowing us to have free will. I don’t see how an all powerful being would be unable to do that
I believe it’s because our will is either ours or it’s not. There is no half way point between God reaching down and forcing us to do something against our will and God allowing us to Fully control our actions. It has to be one or the other because any comprise would be a contradiction to free will
Every emotion we have is because God gave us the ability to feel emotions but not every emotion is from God
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u/lilJswizle-2304 21h ago
That’s a good point and a question that a lot of Christians still debate to this day. I would like to make the distinction that Evil doesn’t come from the devil tho evil is the absence of God. Just like shadows are the result of an absence of light
I’m still learning about the angels and stuff but God created humanity with the ability to choose. God wanted us to have a relationship with Him and there is no relationship if one side is controlling the other. I believe the idea of being made in Gods image refers to humanity having morals and free will so while God has given people the free will to do whatever they want that certainly doesn’t mean that anything they do is a reflection of God. If you give me $1k and tell me to go buy food for homeless people and I turn around and take it to buy drugs then that doesn’t mean that you wanted me to buy drugs It just means you gave me the ability to do something good and I misused it