One of the most burning problems of theology has always been theodicy. Literally, this means "justification of God, " but more precisely, it can be defined as the resolution of the contradiction: if God is good, why He did evil, and whether he did at all. If He did not create it, why does it exist? After all, all things are created by God.
The relationship between good and evil is often represented within the framework of the Hegelian law of "unity and struggle of opposites." From this point of view, evil even seems to be a necessary element of Being. It is noteworthy that most often this point of view is expressed by people who did not encounter real evil - did not survive the war, did not become a victim of crime.
Accepting this point of view, we must admit that evil is a kind of independent entity, equivalent to good. For example, the Albiguian heresy was based on this: God (the bearer of good) and the Devil (bearer of world evil) seemed to be equal to each other, and God and good were associated only with the spiritual world, and the Devil and evil with the material, including the human body. But this is precisely heresy - a doctrine rejected by the church, and not without reason.
Essence of evil
It seems to man that everything in the world — any object, any phenomenon — should have an independent essence. This is partly due to human thinking, operating in terms of generalizations that reveal the essence of objects and phenomena. The error of such a representation can be proved even by the example of physical phenomena.
Here are a couple of opposites - heat and cold. Heat is the movement of molecules, and cold is their less intense movement. Theoretically, even such a cold is possible in which there will be no movement of molecules at all (absolute zero). In other words, in order to define cold, one has to use the definition of heat, cold is a small amount of heat or its absence, it does not have an independent essence.
It is the same with light and darkness. Light is radiation, a stream of particles. There are bodies that emit light - stars, spirals in electric incandescent lamps - but there is not a single body in the Universe that would radiate darkness. Even black holes do not do this, they simply do not emit light. Darkness also does not have its own essence, being the absence of light.
In the light of such analogies, the relation between good and evil becomes clear. Good is a natural state of the Universe corresponding to the Divine purpose, and in this sense, good is created by God. Evil is the absence of this state, its destruction. Evil does not have an independent essence, therefore it is impossible to create it at all. So a man committed a murder - he did not create anything, he ruined life. Here a woman cheated on her husband - she again did not create anything, she destroyed her family
.examples can be multiplied indefinitely, but the essence is clear: neither God nor anyone else could create evil.
