Zech's Blog

It says in the bible that God is supposed to be perfect and have tremendous love for us, and he proves it by helping us through hard times and if we go on His path then we our lives will be fullfilled and what not. So i'm wondering why it is that If God is so perfect, loving, and good, that he created the devil to fall and evil to come into the world and for people to go through so much pain and suffering and then a lot eventually go to hell and burn without dying for eternity. Because he is so perfect why wouldn't He want a perfect existance? It was His choice to create pain and evil but the bible says there is no evil in Him. SO I asked this question to a few people and the best answer I think is if there was no such thing as evil then there would be no standard for good or bad so nothing would ever be good. That's a very interesting idea which goes with the conclusion, but my reply to that theory is I'm sure God could create beings to understand evil and not do it just like what will happen in heaven for eternity, because there is no sin there. Anyways the main answer that alot of people including myself in the past have came up with is He gave us evil and pain for obsticals to prove that we love Hiim whole heartedly, but that answer wouldn't make sense because he didn't make us capable of love like that and he knew we would screw up anyways so he made Jesus die for us, so if He wanted us to prove ourselves then He probably would have made us capable of doing so. So my last thought is that, what we think is perfect good and righteous is not perfect at all. God made good and evil so if he's perfect that means that what we consider good is not perfect but the balance of good and evil is what defines His perfection.