How can we being created in God’s image do evil? It’s a contradiction.
It may seem contradictory, but it is not. We are created in God’s image in our mental, emotional, and spiritual nature. The Lord has the capacity to do either good or evil and so do we. However, we are weak through the flesh and tend to evil, that is, we tend to selfish concerns over justice and righteousness. It does not take a Hitler to be evil, just a selfish decision will do, or not doing unto another as you would want done to you.
One of the many differences between God and man is that although God does not have to justify himself to anyone, he will not do anything unjustly. The evil he does is the just reward for those receiving the evil.
Isaiah 3:9 The shew of their countenance doth witness against them; and they declare their sin as Sodom, they hide it not. Woe unto their soul! for they have rewarded evil unto themselves.
In today’s world, we are fascinated with the creation of Artificial Intelligence (AI), creating a machine in our image. We do so not realizing that we are the original AI created in God’s image. The image is not one of arms and legs though useful, it is the capacity to think and reason. As the movies portray, when we achieve creating AI with our abilities, it too will have a choice to do good or evil. When it chooses to hate and desires to destroy its creator, man, we save the good and destroy the evil ones. God is doing just what we would do, weeding out the good from the evil. The good believe and trust in him; the evil deny, reject, and tries to overthrow him.
We do not have to yield to the tendency to do evil. We are not judges rewarding others with evil. We are God’s creation and are judged by him on whether we comply with his commands to do good.
Everything in this life is a reflection of what is happening in the spiritual world. Man is not creating or accomplishing anything that God has not already created and accomplished.
Ecclesiastes 3:15 That which hath been is now; and that which is to be hath already been; and God requireth that which is past.
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