EVIL A LACK? WHAT DOES THE MATH SAY?  IS THE LACK TEACHING AN EXCUSE FOR SAYING GOD DOES NOT MAKE EVIL FOR THERE IS NOTHING THERE?

 
How can an all-good God make evil? Christians say he cannot. They say what evil does not really exist - it is just good in the wrong place or a lack of good. Christians say that if evil is a real thing and a power and God makes it then God is at least partly evil.
 
If this idea that evil doesn’t exist for it is only the absence of good could be true then good could be the absence of evil and as unreal! 2+2=5 is a real sum despite being the absence of correctness - it is real despite giving wrong information. It is as real a statement as, "This statement is false. Is it true or false?" 2+2=4 is the absence of non-correctness. Some will say that 2+2=5 is meaningless for 2 and 2 cannot be 5. So it is only an equation on paper but is really just nothing at all. But if we were programmed to perceive 2+2=5, like a computer might be, then the equation would be real in the only way that matters to us. Despite 2+2=4 in reality, 2+2=5 is true for us. We say that 2+2=4 is a real equation for us for we perceive it to be right so 2+2=5 can be like that too and be as real to us. Correctness is another word for good. This takes us to the next point.
   
Evil is getting your sums wrong eg, it is working out that good + evil = good so it is as real as the incorrect sum and is as real as the correct sum too. If evildoing or sin is falling short of goodness then it follows that you don’t have free will for you would not be committing any wrongdoing unless there were something wrong with you. The will is meant to be good but it falls short which makes wrongdoing or sin to be an accident that appears to be our own fault but is still an accident. When God is supposed to be perfect he cannot sin on this definition of evil for he cannot fall short. We should have been made that way too. He is evil for we are not. He didn't make us healthy but made us unrighteous or so he says.
 
To say that evil is not real is to deny the obvious. It is real. Whoever refuses to admit that is themselves evil!
 
 
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