What if God is Evil?

People have often speculated that they would not worship or love a God who was unjust, or ask the question, "What if God was evil?"

These thoughts (sincerely entertained) ultimately fail to consider our lowly state, and the supremacy of God as Creator. Ultimately, these thoughts are not truly seeking to understand God as a person supposes to be doing, but rather, seek merely to justify self before a holy God.

If God made us, then He is Who decides what good and bad are. Good and bad exist because God divided them, and said what is. He then allows us to perceive it, based on the reality He makes available to us. We can only entertain such thoughts because God allows it. At best we are able to perceive something as good or evil--and assuming we get it right--it is only by God's supreme design and definition that something can be evil or good for us discern in the first place.

If we, however, create in our minds a scenario where we become God's judge (maybe God is evil) and by our own self determined thoughts judge God as evil... then have become God's judge, and God ceases to be God.  You see, if God is evil, then evil would be good, and it simply becomes a moot point. Even saying so is a bit ridiculous.  Good is good, because God makes it good.  He makes it good based upon his sole discretion, power, and will.  We then exist in the world He created.

What man does not want to face, however, is that God is absolutely good all the time, and we (mankind) are continually evil of our own accord. Ultimately, the goal of such thinking that God might just be evil, is to dethrone God and justify ourselves by our own measurements and our own deluded righteousness--which is evil, by the way.

So, is God evil? The real question is, "Am I evil?" Likewise, the answer must be "yes," otherwise we are holy and perfect like God, and we have made ourselves to be God.

Not only is God absolutely good... but this.

“But now the righteousness of God has been manifested apart from the law, although the Law and the Prophets bear witness to it— the righteousness of God through faith in Jesus Christ for all who believe. For there is no distinction: for all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God, and are justified by his grace as a gift, through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus, whom God put forward as a propitiation by his blood, to be received by faith. This was to show God’s righteousness, because in his divine forbearance he had passed over former sins. It was to show his righteousness at the present time, so that he might be just and the justifier of the one who has faith in Jesus.”
Romans 3:21-26 ESV