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Originally Posted by Lisa111
What if it's, you know, just not my thing... That still sounds like attrition.
If God created everything, but didn't create evil, evil would not exist... God created Lucifer, and, if everything is created in God's image, by God, who is omnibenevolent, Lucifer shouldn't be able to do evil.
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I gave this example before I'll give it again:
I don't believe in gravity. If I were to go to a cliff could I walk and float in air because I don't believe in gravity? No. I would fall, because the point is gravity is still there. You may chose not to believe in God or His teachings, but this does not eliminate the fact that He is there.
God created everything Good. Does a baker create a cookie to crumble? Did the baker make the crumbs? Or did he make the cookie? The cookie crumbles because of the absence of the baker.
Read the passages. Lucifer was created blameless, he separated himself from God and desired to be better than God, thus the "author" of evil came from Satan's heart because he was the first one to sin. To say God is the author of evil is to say God is evil, but He is blameless, and Holy, therefore cannot be the author of evil. Does this make sense? Like the cookie, sin or evil is the separation from God. In other words let me put it like this:
Say Bob was the first man to make a pair of shoes and you had to tie them to keep them from falling off.
Jamie who was his daughter, worked for Bob and desired to become richer than her father. She decided people hate the time it takes to tie shoes so she would make slip on shoes, and sell more shoes than her dad, and therefore make more money. Bob found out that his daughter was trying to over throw Bob's company with this idea by getting his employees who helped design the shoes to work for her, and Bob fired her, and the employees who followed her.
Jamie created the slip on shoes with her employers, and she was right. Slip on shoes were a big success, because people rather do what is easier.
Since Bob made the first pair of shoes, does this make him responsible for slip on shoes?