Dear God,

I was recently confronted by a non-Christian friend of mine who said that my religion doesn’t make any sense, because if God created the Universe, he must have created everything bad about it too, and such a deity who would choose to make so much bad stuff must not be worth worship.

I told him that Satan was the source of all evil, but then he quoted a scripture from the Bible, Proverbs chapter 20 verse 22, which says, “Do no repay evil for evil. Wait for the Lord to handle the matter.”

He says that Bible verse indicates that you will repay evil for evil, and doesn’t that make you a clear source of bad things in the world.

How do I respond?

- Lawrence

Lawrence,

If you’re honest, you’ll respond by agreeing with your friend.

I am sick and tired of Satan taking credit for creating evil in the world. It’s not true. He’s just a copycat and wants the credit for himself. I am the original source. Who, after all, created Satan himself. That would be me.

People want to believe things about me because they idolize me. Oh, God is all good, they say. What they need to understand is that, as far as I’m concerned, everything I do is good, by definition, and that includes creating bad things.

When they say that I am omnibenevolent, what it really means is that my word defines what is good and what isn’t, because I’m the ruler of the universe, and you had better get used to it.

Don’t like it? Create your own universe, if you can.

- God

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