Does the award for the greatest evil go to Satan or God?

[Greatest I am]

Does the award for the greatest evil go to Satan or God?

Many blame Satan for the evils of this world even as his power to deceive all of us comes from God.

As the creator of Satan, many think that God deserves the blame as he knew what Satan would be because God knows everything in advance.

What is the greatest evil you can think of and who do you think is to blame for it?

Who is the greatest sinner, Satan or God?

I lean toward God as scriptures name him the Alpha and Omega which to me means the best and the worse. Also, scriptures have God saying not to place any other above him and I would be going against this by placing Satan above him in the category of the most evil. I do not want to break the first commandment.

Do you dare by putting Satan above God?

Regards
DL

[Hydra]

1. Depends on whether God built everything or not

If he's a landlord for some greater power, he's just dealing with the mess. If he created the mess, then all of us are reflections of him (artist's work reflecting him).

You're not the first to wrestle with this, by far.

[Greatest I am]

17. The clay

can only be what the potter forms.

Regards
DL

[jody]

2. If as parent of a child that creates crime are you more guilty of that crime than the child? nt

[Warren Stupidity]

7. The allegedly all knowing all powerful all present sky being is not exactly equivalent to a parent.

[jody]

9. Agree "not exactly equivalent" but it's close enough for discussion. nt

[Warren Stupidity]

12. no really it isnt at all.

omniscience/omnipotence comes with direct responsibility.

[jody]

13. So we have different opinions! I can live with that and you'll have to also. nt

[Warren Stupidity]

14. whoa, wait, is your deity omnipotent and omniscient?

[Hydra]

16. Apparently not

Because they seem to have missed your point that if the parent is all knowing and all seeing, but they create children that aren't, God most certainly IS responsible.

[trotsky]

8. If you raised that child without telling them what behaviors are wrong,

you may not be legally responsible but you are most certainly morally responsible.

[jody]

10. Agree. nt

[trotsky]

15. So you agree that if there is a god, it is morally responsible for the acts of its creation? n/t

[Greatest I am]

18. Rearing

If I rear the child for crime then yes.
If I rear the child for good and they turn evil then not.

Regards
DL

[GodlessBiker]

3. As the story goes, only god has intentionslly destroyed every living thing ...

on the planet, down to one human family and two individuals of each remaining species, and has promised to destroy the earth altogether in the future.

That's pretty evil.

[Greatest I am]

19. + 1

+ 1

Regards
DL

[Agnosticsherbet]

4. Neither, humans deserve the greatest evil award.

because even if there is a God and a Satan, humans committed the evil acts.

Humans killed a million in Laos in the killing fields, twenty million in Nazi Germany, 800,000 in Rwanda, created an apartheid state with the American Indians and elsewhere, humans make child soldiers, kidnap children and force them into prostitution, set up factories where children are worked to death, and I've not even Delta with the various reported humanitarian violations reported in religious texts.

Humans did these things and more. They just use God, or Satan, to justify what they did.

[Greatest I am]

20. Realism is not allowed for believers.

That is scripture.

Regards
DL

[Angry Dragon]

5. Perhaps they are just one and the same

just different names for the same being

Think of the Trinity

[Greatest I am]

21. Yes. A rediculaous concept.

Pushed into reality by Constantine for his own self-aggrandisement and forced down Christianity's throat.

Regards
DL

[Tyrs WolfDaemon]

6. Frost Giants

Frosts Giants are normally the greatest evil people deal with.


(One should also beware the Black Mist, the Eaters of the Dead - but then, no-one has seen any for over a thousand years.)

[cleanhippie]

11. Satan wins, hands down. Here is the proof, from the Bible!

[Greatest I am]

22. Thanks

Thanks for this.

Regards
DL