Is God Evil?

A response to Is God Evil? by Stitch-Puppy. Tell me what you think – flames would be appreciated, if you tell me what the matter is. Whenever a A is shown, that means the author's name was omitted, but they were informed of their words' use through a private message in Fictionpress.

Stitch-puppy brings up an interesting point in her essay. She points out that if God were not evil, He would have not made us with the capability to be evil.

"If we didn't have the capacity to choose, then there would be no genuine good deeds," says A. Now, the always, ever-important question always looms… Is God evil for creating us?

No! No, he isn't! "Is an author evil because his novel has villains or because bad things happen in it?" says A. Is this not the same thing? Aren't we just characters in a huge book that God has compiled? Yes, yes we are!

The answer here is obvious. Simply take ten minutes to think about it. God doesn't will HUMANS, who we are, to do His will. He has people who do what He wishes, but for the rest of us who are destroying the Earth and ripping it to pieces with global warming and such "evils," we are doing it out of our own free will, not of God's will!

It's clearly stated – God gave us the power, and it is a very strong power, to commit deeds either good or evil out of our own will! This is what sets us apart from animals.

"As for animals. Since they run on pure instinct, they are completely selfish all of the time. But, they don't understand anything. They don't know they are alive. Like a new born baby. A lot of new parents used to think that a baby was being selfish when it cried when it was hungry and that it needed to be ignored in order to learn. Which is true, and false. A baby, is the most selfish thing on the planet. But it doesn't understand that. It understands, hungry, pain, exhaustion. Like any animal. It cannot be blamed when it doesn't know. So though it is selfish, it isn't evil in this respect." – Stitch-Puppy

This is mostly wrong, although there is a part of it that is true. I, myself, have a younger sister who is just turning two years old. During her first year of birth, she showed many of the signs of "animal" hunger, pain, and exhaustion, but still she knew WHO to call for, and WHERE her mother was! Would an animal know this? No! If a lioness goes out to hunt for her cubs, and another lion attacks the cubs, would the lion cubs be able to cry out to its mother to help? No, it wouldn't! Would a human child be able to call out for his or her mother? Yes, no matter how old they are!

There is another, greater, question behind all this. If God made us, then why'd He give us a (metaphorical) gun to us but not inform us of how to use it?

This gun, obviously, is free will.

This has an even more obvious answer.

A parent with her child tries to cling on to her precious child as long as she can. Of course! This is a given fact, an obvious thing! Of course a parent, who is more overprotective of her child than anything else in the world, even more so than a miser and his meager bits of money, would cling onto her child as long as she can!

But eventually, wouldn't that parent have to let go? Wouldn't she have to let the child wander off on her own, even without informing her about the dangers of the real world? Yes, she would! And this is where God's Work comes exactly in conjunction with this drawn-out metaphor! Like an overprotective parent, God shelters us, but eventually he must release us from his grasp into the adult world of powerful emotions and heavy doubts. And no doubt, every step of the way God is regretting that decision, but at the same time rejoicing that it has come to pass as well, that His children have grown up!

And still, every step of the way, God is beside us, ready to give aid if you will accept it, but we, in our own arrogance and failing to comprehend God's mighty forgivingness and benevolence, push Him away, farther and farther, until we have strayed so far down the road of Hell that we cannot possibly venture back!

I hope, at the end of this essay, you have walked away with some powerful thoughts nagging your mind… because it sure has done so to mine. Thanks for reading, and your thoughts on this subject would be appreciated.