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Wednesday, October 30, 2019

There must be opposition in all things

Kwaku posted a video named "i believe in multiple gods". In it he says
So let's examine good and evil. If God created everything and saw everything that was going to happen and hit that first domino and said, "Let it all rip, let it all go", then He is the creator of good and evil. He is the father of evil.
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Since Father in Heaven is the father of the spirit of Lucifer. Technically, yes He is the father of evil. That does not make him the reason evil came into the world. Lucifer is the creator of his own evil, not Father in Heaven. In 2 Nephi 2:11 we learn
For it must needs be, that there is an opposition in all things. If not so, my firstborn in the wilderness, righteousness could not be brought to pass, neither wickedness, neither holiness nor misery, neither good nor bad. Wherefore, all things must needs be a compound in one; wherefore, if it should be one body it must needs remain as dead, having no life neither death, nor corruption nor incorruption, happiness nor misery, neither sense nor insensibility.

God is the father of all of our spirits. This includes Lucifer. God also knows the beginning from the end. God knew that Lucifer would rebel in our premortal life. God's foreknowledge does not make him responsible for Lucifer's choices. In 2 Nephi 2, Lehi instructed Jacob and his other children that there must be an opposition or else there is no way for us to progress to be like our Father in Heaven.

God has given all of us the gift of agency. We are unlike all the other creations He has made. This gift extends to Lucifer, who ironically sought to destroy our agency (Moses 4:1). It was the rebellion of Lucifer both in heaven and in the garden of Eden that provided the very opposition that agency requires.

(Link to my YouTube comment)

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