If God prevented evil from happening?

Question

If God stopped all of mankind from doing anything evil or from any sinful thought how far do you think we would get in life?

How many lessons would be learned? how much experience would you have? could your character become shaped and you become a better person? Would there be any consequences or rules needed?

Would we still grow as humans and develop skills and talents or would there be no mistakes made or allowed?

Answer 1

You already know the answer.

Answer 2

Well, think about it. there would be no "lessons" to learn. Because of evil and sin, we have to have hardship to get ahead in this world and "learn".

We wouldn't have to learn the hard way about things because there simply would be no "hard way".

If we were perfect we could still develop skills-through a "good" way-like Cain culervating the ground. =)

Answer 3

It is back to Philosophy 101 - introduction to moral.  Do you safe someone not knowing if his life is good or bad after he is saved?  Perhaps add a bit of dilemma, do you stop someone with a gun from killing another person not knowing if either is good or bad?  The answer should both be resounding "yes".  After all a life saved is a life saved, and we have laws and judges to sort things out.

If what I am hearing is right, the argument is that God has done exactly the opposite of those - knowingly let evil and sin run on without stopping them to proliferate.  God has done that in order for us to learn a few lessons?  That's the Christian justification?  It is not a very good one for God to gamble with choices decided by our free will - supposedly also given by God, right?

One conclusion is that God must know something we do not.  Who then are we to interfere with God's plan or second guess God when we are now confused by the contradicting choice made.  Every time we have the pleasure of dealing with miracles, we have problems making sense out of them.

So, the best hope we really have is to do what is morally right - ignoring whether God is watching or doing something behind our backs.  However, note that it is true simply because there is sin / evil in the world, if there isn't, then problems all solved without so much trouble.

Answer 4

The source of all evil is satan.  If god had not made that one slip of creating him evil would not exist, nor would earth or h**l.  Only heaven.  

Answer 5

The only growth that evil provides is the lessons on how to avoid evil.  If it didn't exist, we wouldn't need to learn to avoid it.  Evil is always an inhibitor, never a contributor, to the growth of good in mankind.    It is not needed for good to be learned, expanded, or enjoyed, and its eradication would be nothing but beneficial.

If there was absolutely no chance of crashing your car or injuring someone while driving, don't you think you'd be able to drive faster than you do now, with more practiced skill (because you'd be fearless of failure while your practicing) than you have now?

If you could live life without fear of evil intruding on your accomplishments, your life be better.

Think of the charities that would thrive if mistrust was driven out.  Think of the persons who would not have been harmed or killed from malicious motives.  Think of the energy saved by policemen, attorneys, soldiers, and the like in the absence of evil.  How could anyone possibly think that the presence of evil has any benefits at all?

And how could anyone beleive that a loving god would create it, or allow it to exist if he had the omnipotent power to eradicate it.

Answer 6

I hate when people say that evil in the world is proof god doesn;t exist. How can they be so ignorant?! God has a will, but he grants us freewill. Our actions and thoughts lead to consequences and outcomes. If God prevented evil we would all have submitted to him, which takes away the point of existence. People need to submit to god via freewill, not force.

Answer 7

Polices,Armys,Lawyers & Judges will be jobless.

Answer 8

Evil is different than mistakes or sins.

Sins are needed, for us to grow and learn and so are mistakes, but not evil. Three very different things.