When God is the author of all that is does that mean he is the one that thought up the concept of sin?
Does it also mean that God causes people to sin without tempting them? Is that even possible?
How can God cause people to sin without being the cause of sin?
Bonus Question: Is it possible that God could be the creator of all without being the cause of all?
In life, I have noticed a certain law in place. I call it the law of opposites. You know that left can’t exist without right, black without white, up without down, out without in, love without hate, light without darkness, and good with evil.
If God created everything and these are common laws to us, then I can only assume that God did indeed create evil. My reason for saying such things could be shown in the garden of Eden. If God created everything, then the tree of knowledge of good and evil was also created by Him. Why else would it be there?
It backs up my point about opposites, Whilst good existed, evil is also there because the two can’t exist without each other.
It Satan and a third of the Angels could rebel against a perfect loving God, then evil, free will, and a Choice to choose had to exist somewhere.
In the garden of Eden, it was our disobedience that led to the fall of man, but that in and of itself doesn’t mean that evil wasn’t there before fall. Same with my point about the Angels.
I asked God lying in bed one night if He was Omniscient, why did you allow Satan to rebel, and man to have choice to obey or not. “That’s your answer”
It was choice. God allowed man to fall in order to have a choice.
You see having free will is one thing, but if in our free will we only know Good, then we wouldn’t fully understand what good actually is.
As we know from the Bible, God had a Saviour before the creation of the earth, man etc etc. It shows why the tree was in the garden and shows God knew man would fall.
In allowing us to see evil, glorifies Gods goodness even more so.
And if you can’t get your head around anything that I said, here’s a scripture,
“His ways are above ours just as high as the heavens are above the earth”
Ask God for wisdom, It’s exactly what He will give and that’s the answer I got that very night I asked Him a very logical question.
I left man fall so that with his free will, he has a choice. Choice can’t exist if it’s one sided.
God Bless