It was yesterday when someone asked me,"Did God create evil?"
Hmm.. That's an interesting question to ponder.

Well, I can't really say for sure because I don't know which one is right or wrong. In fact, the view that I have is that nobody can be 100% right. After all, we as human alone can only approximate what this "TRUTH" is all about, right?

Figuring out something from a book titled "When Skeptics Ask", whose author has done a lot of research trying to answer every question using logic, I found this topic about evil as well.

When God created us, He gave us free will, and from this free will human can choose either to do right or wrong. When human choose to do wrong, evil conquers him.
Wait a second... So what will happen if human always do the right thing, does evil still exist? Perhaps no!

Let's take a look..
God is a Creator, He reigns Heaven, together with angels, whom He created.
Angel was created without free will, hence they must worship God and can't commit any sins.
We were created with free will, and from this free will comes good and evil. Hey, does that means God indirectly created evil? Well, though it's hard to believe but it may seems so.

We might be wondering.. God must be crazy! Why does He need to create evil? 
Well now consider, can God create human without evil? without sin? Of course He can! But He'll need to take this free will from human so that human will always do the right thing.. But what is then the difference between human and angel?

Now we know.. that God created evil to create us, human with free will. It seems strange but it may be inevitable.
So why does He want to give us free will?
Let's stop for a while. Recall His words that He made us as a perfect creation.
Yes.. "perfect" but why? I can't see anything "perfect".

To answer this, let's compare ourself with other creation of God, angel.
Angel always do the right thing, but he does not have a free will.
Human has a free will, and "may choose" to do either right and wrong.

Did I get the word correct? "may choose"
not "we can't be perfect"
Can we be perfect? Why not? Are we "forced" to do sins? I don't think so.. But sometimes we CHOOSE to commit sin by ourself.

"Be perfect, therefore, as your heavenly Father is perfect" (Mat 5:48)

God desires us to be perfect. But He can't force us, because by forcing us it will take our free will. Without free will, we are no longer perfect. But of course, sin can make us imperfect.
Yet.. Because He loves us so much that He does not take our free will.. Can we still not recognize how loving is our God..? =')

So.. What can we do..
Stop sinning.. it will destroy His dream to make us a perfect creation.
The most beautiful thing for Him is that when He creates us.. gives us free will.. and with all the temptation that we feel, we still manage to love Him back.
That.. is the perfect creation that God desires..
That.. is what God always long from us..
To love Him back.. no.. to CHOOSE to love Him back with our free will.

Praise You Lord for giving us free will =)
Help us to always realize this.. and so that we're able to choose.. to love You back =)

Dear bro n sis.. Let's do our best to love Him! =)