Thank God for Evil.

So you deny is god is omnipotent, and claim that he does not have the power to make a world where he is known without the presence of evil?

I deny nothing.

God may very well be able to make a world without evil. We have no knowledge of such a world if indeed He has created one.
The example that we are given is one with evil. Do you think that we are unique in this area?
Do you know of a world were there is no evil? I do not.

Regards
DL

No he doesn't. If he is omnipotent, he makes the rules. Period. He controls his own needs. For you original claim to be true, that god NEEDS evil, it would necessarily mean that god is not omnipotent.

Isaiah 45-7
I make peace, and create evil: I the Lord do all these things.

God may not need evil for Himself. It is we who need the teaching and the tree is just a teaching tool.

If God did not need it for us then He would not have created it.

Evil here is not a particular thing.
Good and evil are used as adjectives, not nouns. They are units of measurement. One on each side of a bell curve. We use it to judge the various issues that we deal with in learning of the good or evil of each.

Regards
DL

He must know of some other way to teach us.

If He does, it may not be as good as this one.
This is evidenced by the fact that He has chosen this one. Any other might be inferior.

This one is working well. Why knock it. God is happy with it and us or He would intervene.

Regards
DL

Trial and Error.....thats what I think of the creator

Sweet.
Thanks for my first giggle of today.

I was thrown off of a number of sites for my God and Oops postings.

Regards
DL