A Master's In Christian Apologetics, By Greg Koukl

When God created the universe, all things were good. The Lord made everything, all planet and stars, all people and animals. He found these things to be good in his eyes. Since He is a perfect being, that means that these things were near perfection. However, the people that God made were given free will. Unfortunately, they chose to defy their perfect God, and in so doing, the humans distanced themselves from the flawlessness of Him. They ignored the only restriction put on them and they committed the first sins, ushering evil into the world. Although many people nowadays argue that, because God created everything, he also created evil, I think that it is the result of human choice, because God was not the one who brought evil into the world. In order to understand what

As shown above, God did create everything, so, if He did create all things, and He did not create evil, then evil must not be a thing (Augustine on Evil). This is an argument made by Greg Koukl. He has a Master’s Degree in Philosophy of Religion and Ethics, a Master’s in Christian Apologetics, and is a professor of Christian Apologetics at Biola University. His argument helps to further prove the points already made above, and really helps to explain the existence of evil. However, if evil is not a thing, then what could evil be, and how can it possibly exist? If evil is not a thing but it still exists and is acknowledged, then it can only exist as the absence of something, or an “anti-thing”. Evil as an anti-thing can be likened to other occurrences in the physical realm that we can easily see. For example, cold, this is merely the absence of heat, or night just being the absence of day, or cold being the absence of heat. These can be described as anti-things because, without their counterparts, their existence is