why did God allow evil?

Welcome Brother Chase,
(I assume thats your first name.)

you want what my heart speaks, as the Spirit leads? you wrote:

if I stick to the Calvinistic doctrine

Stick to Jesus and a simple Faith, you can never go wrong, just plead the Blood of Christ, and the Holy Ghost will lead you....but thats how the Lord leads me, always remembering Paul admonishment, "some follow Paul, some follow Apollos".

in His love, neil

standley wrote:
Now I know this is a huge topic, because it invokes Calvinism vs arminianism. I don't think we can turn a blind eye to this question purely for the fact it is the foundation to the christian faith and an understanding of how God works.

What keeps pulling at my heart and mind is if I stick to the Calvinistic doctrine it states God has made Satan to make men sin and for some men to go to hell. I know were all unworthy and don't deserve life. But I believe God is merciful and loving, so why would he put people on the earth that he made to go to hell?

Ive tried to answer my mind in these ways
. If god did not allow evil men would not know good.
. The Job answer.(im so small I cant understand)

But im still a little confused
anyone got anything to say?

[color=000000]#1. God did not create sin. Sin is a consequence of choosing evil, which God did create for the purpose revealing His Love to those who choose Him, evil being the other choice. Question: How else can true love be revealed if choice is not involved in the process?

#2. Sin originated in Lucifer who chose evil to become the great Satan who was cast to Earth.

#3 Adam was created without evil in him and given to make a choice between God's love for him and his love for himself, not unlike what Lucifer did. He did and chose wrongly, thus infecting us, by his universal blood, with the "sin" penalty of his choosing, which separates us from God's actual presence. Separating us from God's actual presence has left us an overwhelming 'self-serving' flesh condition that the devil easily exploits. It is in his power to do so because in the transgression, what Adam didn't realize, is that he would be establishing a relationship with the enemy of God AND with his on soul. Jesus broke that power and makes the way open for us to re-establish our relationship with God as purposed by Him from eternity.[/color]

davym wrote:

But I believe God is merciful and loving, so why would he put people on the earth that he made to go to hell?

I think that there are certain things God doesn't tell us in the Bible. The Bible is just enough information to get us through this world. Dwelling on questions like this is what robs Christians of their peace and joy. It can even lead to mental illness if carried to the extreme. Stay within the boundaries of the Book and allow the Holy Spirit to teach you.

Christians I believe search for answers in all the wrong places these days e.g. churches, programs, youth groups, music, Calvinism etc.. There are no answers there. They are blind alleys. The answers lie in God's Word.

In Christ

D

This is no mystery. God has never interfered[s] with procreation. It is what it is by His decree. He simply uses it to bring about His purposes for His "new creation" in Christ, a Spiritual one.

[color=000000]Why do suppose God is tolerating this evil in today's church if not to reveal the narrowness in Him required to be understood and embraced and can only be performed by those who truly love Him and not for what they get out of it:

https://www.sermonindex.net/modules/newbb/viewtopic.php?topic_id=28819&forum=36&2

"One of the worst sins amongst us is that we are more interested in the most recent views on sanctification than we are in the testimonies in God’s Book. Any excitable, hysterical testimony from a tide of revival is apt to be more welcome to the majority of sanctified people than the bedrock teaching of the New Testament. With what result? “. . . because they had no root, they withered away."[/color]

Chambers, O. (1996, c1943). Bringing sons into glory : Studies in the life of our Lord. London: Marshall, Morgan & Scott.

i recommend a.w pink sovereignty of god, amazing grace the doctrine of calvinism Dvd, they both have helped my understanding of your question. Understand calvinism or the 5 points of calvinism is a response to the 5 points of armianism, and all of their points our according to what the scripture says, not saying it is all right but thats what it is, according to their intepretation of scripture so this problem with calvinsm would be the same as me or anyone else here having their own interpretation of scripture in which everyone here has their own views of scripture and freely gives it, calvinism and armianiasm is the same thing, my name is john beechy and you could call my doctrine beechyism, of course i am joking but everyones views on what scripture says could be considered their own doctrine even though we don't say that. So now you can look at caklvinism and armianism as someones own interpretation of scripture and not some evil thing that people speak of or against like it is real bad, it is better to have order when explaining something and these 2 do that, our they right i don't no, our we right on everything most likely not, so look at it as a different view on scripture, not some bad terrible thing.

God is all knowing & all powerful, knowing the end from the beginning. God created man with a free will, knowing in advance that he would sin.

The Bible tells us that before the world was created, God had the plan of salvation to save those that would believe in Him.

God has no use for Satan, and no use for the man or woman that wants nothing to do with him, that has rejected Him.

Earth was created to sort it all out. All those that believe in the seed of the woman, revealed by God in the Garden, in the beginning of time in (Genesis 3:15) are saved and will spend eternal life with Him.

Since we are the creatures, we should be joyously happy with this wonderful plan of salvation and eternal life with our creator. However, our sin nature indwells us, and inflates us to be "gods" in our minds, and as "gods" we are offended by this plan. We think, how can God do such a thing? How can God send any human being (his creation) to hell??How can God create hell for those that want nothing to do with Him?

God created hell for Satan and his fallen angels, not for man. God created a plan for man to be saved, and spend eternity with Him, in worship and adoration of Him. Those that reject God's plan will spend eternity in hell, with Satan and his fallen angels who rejected God long, long ago.

What was God's Plan? He sent His Son to become sin for humanity. Those that reject this free gift, reject eternal life with Him

(2 Cor 5:21)
1. For he hath made him to be sin for us, who knew no sin; that we might be made the righteousness of God in him.

Without our belief and trust in Him, and the work that He did, we are on a one way road to hell.

Sincerely,

Walter

standley wrote:
Now I know this is a huge topic, because it invokes Calvinism vs arminianism. I don't think we can turn a blind eye to this question purely for the fact it is the foundation to the christian faith and an understanding of how God works.

What keeps pulling at my heart and mind is if I stick to the Calvinistic doctrine it states God has made Satan to make men sin and for some men to go to hell. I know were all unworthy and don't deserve life. But I believe God is merciful and loving, so why would he put people on the earth that he made to go to hell?

Ive tried to answer my mind in these ways
. If god did not allow evil men would not know good.
. The Job answer.(im so small I cant understand)

But im still a little confused
anyone got anything to say?