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Actually, Satan created evil.
Remember the story of Adam and Eve?
Satan decieved Adam and Eve into eating the fruit from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, even though God told them not to eat from it.
This cursed Adam and Eve, and this is how evil came to our world.
This all starts on Genesis 2:4 if you want to read it.
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This is based on knowledge gained from the Christian holy teachings. IT doesn't mean I agree with it -- it's just my interpretation of the teachings of the bible.
But the orginal sin is what separates us from the animals. I interpreted it as not that the fruit actually
caused sin -- but rather the capacity for sin within the humans.
As in, the right to choose. If you choose to become sinful that's your choice, but any good that you do should be as a product of free will -- you learn more from Jihad and striving towards felicity (and failing at the beginning) that you ever would from having no option but the right choice.
See, the option was there for the humans to live like the animals, in blissful dumbness -- not accountable for their actions, but they had the choice to go against this and it's only through that sin, and the choice and learning that came from that that we can learn anything -- 'cause you can shout it at someone as much as you like, but they'll only truly learn once they understand within themselves that is prevalent, or commonly sensical at this moment in time.
And that it's entirely probable that the God knew this.
The buddhists believe in a cycle of life -- that we are all once, and again will be, Gods. But we live a life free from struggle, and without hardship you cannot learn. Gods live a life of bliss, and without the presence of the Tai-Chi they grow both dumb, and then discontent. To be human is to know struggle, and it makes you stronger. If you lived in a Utopian solitary confinement, you'd leave this world as you entered it -- mindless and unlearned.
EDIT: It was on-topic when I started ^__^;