The apostle Paul says that God Himself gives to all life and breath and all (Acts 17:25-26). Does this ‘all’ not include evil?
Think about our lives and how many of us would think that ‘evil’ is a big part of our lives. Now, Paul says God gives us all things, but those of religion believe that this ‘all’ does not include evil? How can God give ‘all’ to ‘all’ people and this not include ‘evil,’ something which is such a major part of our lives? We all experience evil in different forms and degrees in our daily life.
Evil is a creation of God and is completely under His control. Please see my previous articles on the scripture that supports this. Many don’t believe this because they do not understand that God uses evil for an eventual good purpose. However, in attributing the creation of evil to the Adversary or humanity, religion actually accuses God of the greatest evil in which the results are the satanic doctrines of ‘human free will’ and ‘eternal conscious torment.’
Which scenario is evil and which is good?
Giving a person temporary pain in order for them to understand pain. Then, taking that pain away and giving that person joy forever. The joy will be that much better because the person knew pain.
Giving a person temporary joy in order for them to understand joy. Then, taking that joy away and giving that person pain forever. The pain will be that much worse because the person knew joy.
I think all of us would choose option 1 as being good and option 2 as being evil. Then, why does religion say that God operates option 2’s evil?
To answer the above stated question, let’s look at Christ’s own words in Luke 6:35:
35 Moreover, be loving your enemies, and be doing good, and be lending, expecting nothing from them, and your wages will be vast in the heavens, and you will be sons of the Most High, for He is kind to the ungrateful and wicked. -Luke 6:35
So, Jesus commands us to love our enemies and says that God is kind to the ungrateful and wicked. Well, those that reject Christ are Christ’s enemies and evil people are ungrateful and wicked. Now, Christians say that these people will be in eternal hell but Jesus expresses love and kindness to them. So, how does eternal conscious torment show love and kindness to God’s enemies or to the ungrateful and wicked?
It doesn’t. Therefore, my detractors would say that God is kind only for a period of time before that kindness runs out. Then, its too late they will say. So, if this is the case, God has shown His wicked, ungrateful enemies kindness for a period of time only to torture them in fire for all eternity. The kindness shown would just add to the torture because of contrast. It would have been better if God showed them no kindness at all.
So, if God shows kindness and then eventually tortures the person forever, then the kindness was only a contrast that makes hell even worse. Therefore, we must ask the question: Does God give us an experience of goodness and kindness in order to enhance the experience of evil or does He give us an experience of evil in order to enhance the experience of His goodness and kindness?
The latter is true of course, however, this cannot be understood if we do not realize that God is the Creator of evil. Those that don’t believe God is the Creator of evil will use ‘human free will’ to get God off the hook and place blame on the human being.
However, the false doctrine of ‘human free will’ defined as ‘the ability of God’s creature to operate independently of God’ actually takes God off of His throne. How can God be sovereign if 8 billion human beings can do whatever they want?
1 Timothy 2:4 says:
3 for this is ideal and welcome in the sight of our Saviour, God,
4 Who wills that all mankind be saved and come into a realization of the truth.
God wills all mankind to be saved and Ephesians 1:11 says that God is One Who is operating all in accord with the counsel of His will. Yet, human free will takes away God’s sovereignty and makes ‘man’s free will’ stronger than God. So God now has to react to the mighty decision of man.
As a result, evil is separate and protected from God’s hand through the fallacy that God allows and cannot touch the evil of man because He has given him free will. Now, the responsibility of evil is placed on man and not God. Therefore, God no longer controls man’s destiny, instead, man controls his own destiny.
Consequently, this evil that God is no longer in control of operates contrary to His will for all eternity. Therefore, a place must be invented to hold this evil forever. Enter ‘eternal hell’ which actually makes God a sinner. The definition of sin is ‘missing the mark.’ If God wills all men to be saved and fails, then He missed the mark and has sinned.
The apostle Paul said that Christ Jesus came into the world to save sinners (1 Timothy 1:15-16). Jesus Himself said that He came to seek and to save the lost (Luke 19:10). Do we really believe that Jesus did not accomplish His mission? It is such a spiritual cop out to claim that indeed Jesus did not complete His mission of saving all sinners and seeking all the lost because of ‘human free will.’ This is the worst form of evil, claiming that man’s will can thwart the God that does all that He pleases with peoples of the earth (Daniel 4:35).
So, by taking evil away from God, people make God a sinner and attribute the great evil of eternal hell to Him. Free will and eternal hell mean that evil and Satan will steal most of God’s creation forever. As a result, evil destroys the sovereignty and love of God. Human free will and the Adversary, the creator of hell, become more powerful than the Almighty God. The true ‘Subjector and Placer,’ God, becomes subject to and has to react to human free will and Satan.
So in summary, evil needs to be quarantined in a specific part of God’s creation because not only did He not create it nor plan it, but neither can He overcome it for all eternity. Therefore, religion has to make man responsible for choosing to go to hell through the fiction of ‘human free will.’ People think that this gets God of the hook. But, no it certainly does not. It simply takes God off His throne and places man’s will, evil, and Satan above Him.
However, this is not the case. God is the God of evil and He places it exactly according to plan. Not one evil act can occur apart from the Almighty’s will. Eternal hell and human free will do not exist. In fact, man’s will is subject to God’s will in every way and once evil, sin, and death run their course, all mankind will be saved. This is the glorious end when God is All in all because of Christ’s death for sin, His entombment, and His resurrection.
Grace and peace to you all!
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