I'm not a christian, but I grew up in a Baptist household, so I have at least a passing understanding of the Bible. Lemme know if I got any wrong.
If I'm understanding the bible correctly;
God Created heaven and Earth, Including Mankind and Angels
God is all-knowing and all-powerful
Relevant to this discussion, God created Lucifer and all the angels who sided with him.
God made Man in His image, and ordered the angels to serve them.
Lucifer, prideful of his own beauty, and envious of God's (at least perceived) favoritism of Man, and of God's position, started a rebellion in heaven and was/will be cast down into the lake of fire(aka Hell).
lucifer later tempted/took the form of the Serpent in the Garden of Eden and tempted Eve to eat of the Tree of Knowledge.
my conclusion: God, with full knowledge of what lucifer would do/become created him and set him on the path that led to his downfall, and to the Sin of Mankind.
Or to put it more simply; God created Sin through his foreknowledge of what Lucifer would become.
I'm not trying to start a shitstorm here, but this is the logical conclusion that I find myself at.
Any Christian pedes wanna poke holes in this for me?
I had no faith around my adolescent years. I gave up religion when i had unanswereable questions such as "if nothing existed before God then how did God exist in order to create existence?" Priests told me faith and i just couldnt feel it or see it - faith.
Stopped going to church as an adult. I am wary of any organized religion and how truthful the bible might be. Kind of like an elaborately written game of telephone through the ages ...full of mistakes in translations, lost contexual meanings from time periods, lost text, dropped text...etc
Okay that said good vs evil is apparent - you can tangibly feel it when open to it. I had awakening to evil all around us especially for some reason in 2015 as trump emerged. Felt like i was being hit with the sledgehammer of demonic presence.
So while i had no faith as a teen or young adult i am able to better grasp it now. For me it is a feeling of Gods presence. I believe in God and Jesus and i dont need a place of worship for that or to even understand the workings of all the whys and hows and mysteries of the universe anymore. It is enough to know i dont need to know them, that man cant answer those questions for me. If they could they would be God.
You just have to stand back in awe at the beauty and love we can grasp and glimpse. It is enough for now. Faith has to be genuine and somewhat disconnected from our hubris of reason and logic. I couldnt feel that as a teenager though i felt it as a child and accepted it. It is like coming full circle.
With that feeling came an openness to all i couldnt believe before and of course Q.
Total mindfuck. I dont think i made any sense in this post. Sorry. At any rate you can almost feel evil like a cloying stickiness in the air these days. It prickles the skin and sends tingles in my spine. I feel it more now that i found some faith and belief in God.
This is my long winded way of saying what priests told me as a child and i couldnt bare to hear as an adult is that the answer tonyour question is probably that we cant know it or understand it. We arent God. So faith is the answer. Have it or dont....no one can answer the question of why God created sin. We arent that being. We can only guess.
That's alright. I'm happy you found something that brings you peace. 😄
If I'm honest, this is more of an intellectual circle-jerk kind of thing... I'm not looking for deep meaning or morality, just a thinking-high, if that makes any sense.
These kind of questions fascinate me while simultaneously poking me in the ribs until I explore them.
Wow, I sound high on my own farts, don't I? Lol
Thats all right, i sounded like a loon myself.
lol, nah.
"We're all a bit mad...here..."