Because he's good enough to let us choose: "Free will"

Without evil there is no choice, no free will

hello my friend

Dawn

This is best way for us to distinguish good from evil.who to choose or not.

HE had to put it somewhere!

Before the creeation of men, there were already angels created by GOD!but because some of the angels go against the Holy God, God made another being which He has a apecial purpose for His new Kingdom.the communion of all saints (angels and the sanctified men through christ)!separating HOLY from darkness forever!

This refers to something that came before this world...

this has all happened before, it will all happen again

evil is a part of good, without darkness there is no concept of light, only light itself

in order for us to distinguish from the best and worst choices in this plane of existence, we require simple choices. We are not advanced enough to simply think about the best and worst, we must be shown both things.

Dawn

I believe like the gnostics did. If god created an imperfect world then he must be imperfect himself. If he created this world with its good and evil he must have evil also.God is pure spirit and does not need man made institutions to explain his existence.He dwells in all of us and through contemplation we can only approach him in a limited way.

Time to pick another god! If evil exists, then either your god is powerless to prevent it, in which case he is NOT omnipotent; or he doesn't care to prevent it, in which case he is definitely not all loving. Either way, your Christian god is not worth a damn.

I have written a couple short essays about Jesus. In them I have strived to emphazize the human side of Jesus and have eliminated all the abstract theosims. These egocentric beliefs do absolutly nothing for me. They are simply made by people who attempt to glorify themselves using Jesus to blame the world about their shortcomings.These beliefs are moot issues and not worth my time.

There is Evil in the world because the world[I and you] is Evil. We must change before Evil can depart.

How do you propose we change?
Mike

Might it be as simple as abiding by the ten commadments as they are written I think most religions have some forms of commandments from their God but i am far from an expert I just have faith

Because you touch yourself at night

God is Truth. Whatever He thinks, does, or says is consistently valid. That which is False (not True) denies Truth. If He were less than Truth, then He must be both Truth and Falsehood simultaneously - a contradiction.

God is perfection. He is omni-present, omnipotent, and omnitient. To be perfect, there is no flaw. A flaw is a limitation. There is nothing about God that is a limitation.

God is the Creator, able to form something from nothing (and to undo that creation). And, He can reform something extant from one state to another.

God can do an action, or choose not to do it.

"Good" is a quality that describes application of God's Truth and Perfection. He is the one defining the term. His definition leads us to understand that "good" is what is in consonance with His desires. "Evil" is the adversary (opposite) of "good", not in consonance with His desires.

God decided to create creatures with the same quality to choose (free will). By doing so, He took a risk that what He created would prefer to choose independently of God's will.

God can be a "good creator" and still permit "evil" to exist as a condition of "free will" creations.

Gen 3:4-5 And the serpent(Satan) said unto the woman(Eve), Ye shall not surely die: For God doth know that in the day ye eat thereof, then your eyes shall be opened, and ye shall be as gods, knowing good and evil. What do you think? Think of it why God allowed "Lucifer" and his angels to sinned? The same also to Adam and Eve? It's a FREEWILL.