God Created Evil, But Why?

Isaiah 45:7-I form the light, and create darkness: I make peace, and create evil: I the Lord do all these things.

           As we just read here in Isaiah, God did create evil. But one thing that it does not say, is that evil is one of God’s attributes or (mannerisms). Why? Because the bible says that God created evil. So before he created evil, it did not exist. Until God creates something, from nothing, it does not exist. So since evil is something created by God and did not exist prior to its’ being created, then it cannot be a part of God’s mannerisms or a part of his emotions or his personality.
           We humans on the other hand, being born into sin, have the nature of evil instilled inside our natural, fleshly existence. What we must do as humans, is to allow God to teach us and show us a better way to live, according to his word. By doing so, this will strengthen us so that we can get to a place in life where we can resist the evil of our lives a little better than before we began living for God.
            Why did God create evil? Quite simply this: To give mankind two choices to pick from in life. Good or evil, spiritual or fleshly. Since we will all live in a spiritual eternity, either in heaven or hell, it is up to us now, in this life on earth, to choose good. If we choose to do nothing, then we have made the choice to spend eternity in hell where humanity is destined due to humanity being born into sin. No choice is a choice within itself and that choice will send a person to hell. We really only have one choice and that choice is choose God. What mankind needs to understand is, until we were born and began to become knowledgeable of life and our own consciousness, we did not exist! Furthermore, we do not even know now, what it was like to NOT exist! So if God had not chosen to create humanity and gave us a choice to choose to live for him and come to know him freely, because we want to, then we would not exist and we would not know anything about anything at all, nor would we know that there is a good and an evil, nor the fact that there even is a God because we would not know that we did not exist at all! Rather deep isn’t it.
             Even though we were given the choice to choose good or evil; how could we know that we need to choose good if we would have never experienced evil? To choose one or the other, one must have experience in the one and participated in the one, in order to know that the choice made should be the other choice given.
             If God had allowed us to be born into good and never experienced evil in our lives; at the point in time of our choice decision, one might as easily choose evil, even though he had never experienced it, but in doing so, one would not know the terrible repercussions of choosing the evil over the good.
             So in conclusion, we all have been born into sin(evil). We all have also had experiences from evil influences and have participated in countless numbers of evil activities and had countless numbers of evil thoughts in our minds. But because of God’s grace and mercy and his love for humanity, that he created, he woos us with his spirit, he puts people into our lives in order that they may share the truth of God’s word with us and lead us to a relationship with Christ. As a result of these things, it brings humanity to a ‘crossroads’ in their lives and it puts conviction on their hearts in order to enlighten them to the realization that they are at a place in their lives where they now need to make a choice decision of staying in the evil life that they were born into, or choose the good and choose God and welcome him into their lives and a new way of life to live that will get them into heaven.
             God created evil, in order to give mankind a choice to choose the evil or to choose the good and love God freely and not as a programmed robot.
2011