daily java

Daily Java: Every good and perfect gift is from above, coming down from the Father of the heavenly lights, who does not change like shifting shadows. (James 1:17)

Could God, the holy Father and the One who is love, create evil?

God made good, he made holy, he made pure, he made joy. But he also made us able to choose to do them or not. When we do not, we come into the flip side of those good things.

That is the problem of evil. There is always a counterpart to everything. God created good and the flip side is bad. He could take away bad, but in doing so he would have to take away good.

There is no good without bad. Evil was created by the misuse of his creation. He created the capacity for bad when he made us able to choose.

I like choosing, but there is always a bad side to everything. Love of food brings gluttony, love of a woman brings lust, etc. You take the good and deny the bad.

It is kind of like the computer. I like computers and the internet. Yet there is an underbelly that is incredibly evil. It takes the form of graphic lust and pornography.

But to throw the computer away because the bad is there is to deny the good. To claim that God made the evil in life is like saying that when you have a computer, you look at porn.

God made us with the ability to make a choice. We can choose good or not. We can choose holiness or not.

The responsibility is ours. He will help us in the choice, but it is up to us to make it.

Blaming him is foolish and counterproductive. He loved us enough to give us the ability to choose.

I choose him and his grace.