Luke 4:
5 And the devil, taking him up into an high mountain, shewed unto him all the kingdoms of the world in a moment of time.
6 And the devil said unto him, All this power will I give thee, and the glory of them: for that is delivered unto me; and to whomsoever I will I give it.
7 If thou therefore wilt worship me, all shall be thine.
Considering we live in a pretty cruel world, doesn't this reflect us closer to Satan than God? Is Satan to blame for everything in his world?
God may know more about Evil then Satan, but is God causing these evils on Earth, I mean come one, it's Satan.
EDIT: It's mainly human beings now causing the Evil...
You are correct in thinking that all evil as meant in scriptures are human to human and from my point of view, God to God. I am a Gnostic Christian and I follow the saying of one of the Jesus' that says that as children of God, we are all Gods. Some of us are more works in progress than others. Wink.
But on to the source of evil.
When God created all from nothing, evil was one of his creations, --- like all of the other things possible and imaginable, --- including good. At that point in time is when man created the concept of God. That is when we collectively decided to make God unknowable except for what man said of him. Imaginary him that is.
Remember, this is all about man and his thinking and God is just a rhetorical best way or laws, from the political view.
So yes, God is the creator of all evil and he is in fact the epitome of evil himself. I mean, look at how he is shown to be such a prick in the O.T.
That Jewish based myth gives quite the moral lesson to help us judge God as evil and we should all thank Jews for that. Strange then that Christians, Catholics and Muslims would rather persecute them along with Gnostics of all religions.
https://ca.search.yahoo.com/search?fr=mcafee&type=B011CA1056D20141214&p=god+on+trial+verdict
But you have to remember my friend that God is good and that he would not have equal parts of good and evil. As with evolution, where we are trapped and forced to do evil, you can see that there is very little evil as compared to good. Evil can and is best measured by poverty and those numbers are the best today than they have ever been.
Have no fear. All of us Gods are working hard to make things better. Remember that we are hampered by those who will not as yet accept that they too are potential Gods and are slowing down our work of ending poverty. This link explains.
http://www.patheos.com/blogs/friend...cost-of-religious-tax-exemptions-71000000000/
All that aside. Man cannot help but do evil at present but at about 2050, when the tipping point to non-belief is supposed to happen, evil/poverty shall fall to Gods mighty sword of reason and logic over the faith of fools.
I suggest you look into theistic evolution, --- and Gnostic Christianity if you happen to be a free thinker and not a slave to some other form of thought.
Literalism is evil.
Regards
DL