Let us spotlight and particular teaching
I got some questions
Before creating (ex nihilo) anything God was all there was, correct?
Before God created (ex nihilo) He knew, had to know, that evil things would be practiced, correct?
God being all powerful and able to create anything in any form and with any behavior he wanted, chose to create creatures (like satan) that would do evil things. He certainly didn't have to create Satan, right?
Also before creating (ex nihilo) God knew all the evil acts that would be done, right?
If so, before any being was created, before any evil action could be done, evil ideas originated in the "mind" of God, right?
***uming all the above is in line with your beliefs lets move on...
God created beings and knew each and every action each being would do throughout eternity, right?
He knew, for instance, that little Russ would tell his mom a lie when he was little, right?
But God, being all-powerful, didn't have to create any beings who would do anything evil right?
Without creating there would be no evil practiced there would only be God, right?
A creature would not do evil things if God first did not create that being out of nothing knowing full well all actions that being would do, right?
God knew which beings would be saved eternally and which beings would be ****ed for eternity before creating any of them, right?
God did not have to create any beings who would be ****ed for eternity, right?
There would be absolutely no suffering, of the worst kind, if God did not create, right?
Let us go to this point and see what answers we get.
love,
stem
Oxymoron and false choice dilema
The OP begins like this
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I got some questions. According to non-LDS Christianity God is the source of evil...
That is not a question, but a statement.
The term "non-LDS Christianity" is an oxymoron, and an impossibility. It is impossible to conclude that the members of the LDS church are close to being Christians, no matter how loudly thay scream at us; it does not change the facts.
Saying "God is the author of evil: is outright lie, an attack and a blasphemy that has been many times debated, and answered, but the critics of Christianity fail to accept the answer.
The answer is that God is sovereign over all things, and his permitting something does not make him the author of it. God created humanity with a free will, and God will not violate that. It is not in his nature to do that. That way, those who choose to accept God's plan of salvation do do by their own free will, and those who reject God's plan of salvation, also do it via free will. That is the short story.
Your position seems to be rejecting the God of the Bible because you are accusing the only, wise God, a God of love, mercy and comp***ion to be the author of evil. That is prima facie that you know neither God, nor his son, Jesus Christ sufficiently for salvation. Therefore you are stating to all who read, that you, stemelbow deliberately and evilly choose to reject the God who created the way of salvation.
Therefore, due to your evil choice, you are not going to enter into the Kingdom of God, and I AM NOT GLEEFUL TO SAY IT. It saddens me greatly, but I gotta tell you the truth that your evil choices result in eternal, painful separation from God.
I truly hope that that is not the case. I tell you the truth in this, and in other matters, but only you can choose for yourself.