Did (Christianity's) God create AIDS?

How about viruses in general? Does this make such a deity evil, or loving?

Okay, if you want to be devious about it, did God know (when "He" gave us free will) that we would eventually "sin" with homosexuality and "create" AIDs (lol?).

I heard the CIA did it.

Every religion must acknowledge that their God created all viruses, since he is responsible for all creation.
Viruses are not inherently evil, just as a bear is not evil.
If a wild bear mauls a man, no one is going to blame any god, it's the bears nature. Same with the virus - it's just it's nature.
Oh, and I am an atheist, in case you think otherwise.

Even if AIDS is a man made product, God, according to theists, made man. Hence, every malady that afflicts man has a causal link to God. Once you posit that God is the First Cause of all existence, you cannot avoid the chain of causation of every effect, both positive and negative, being traced back to that First Cause. So yes, if God exists, and if he is the First Cause of all existence, then he is responsible for AIDS, every virus that has ever killed humans, and every malevolent thought that has entered every human mind since the beginning of humanity.

ummm, no that would be the powers that be!

That would be high levels masters in the real power of government. ALSO, it is a bit elementary for people to say they invented it to kill off Africans (or as some think African Americans), but they did test it on Africans to see if it would produce the effects they are looking for. They turned it loose on the world to cut the population down among all races because in America alone there are too many people that will be relying on a broken social security system. When it actually goes broke, the politicians will have to answer for all of the money they stole from it. This isnt just a problem in America, it spans the globe. By spreading disease and promoting things like Diabetes, they will ensure that Social Security wont go broke and they wont have to account for the decades of abuse to that system.

If an investigation is started, they will find the missing funds in the bank accounts of the retired politicians and their predecessors.

Well God created everything, including the bad stuff so I guess so.

Here's a site with some weird (and some scary) alternative theories:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AIDS_origin

The one about it being a secret government experiment on gay and bisexual people is the most frightening to me. I doubt it but still... I doubt our government even more. :/

I love how fundie picks and chooses what made what.
Somehow they don't understand that IF an invisible hairy old space monster is responsible for EVERYTHING, like they say when it suits them, it means that 'he' IS responsible for everything.
'He' is responsible for all miscarriages, physical and mental deformities, ugly fat chicks AND tsunamis, hurricanes AND malaria, AIDS AND 'the devil'.

Either your talking-donkey-riding invisible hairy old space monster is master of the universe OR 'he' is not.
You can NOT pick and choose.
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No the scientists working with experimental vaccines for polio in the fifties started that using Africans as the test subjects. It got out of control.
By the way, He isn't the Christians God, He is the God of every man woman and child in this world.

God created all life forms. However, death and disease did not exist until after sin. That would mean that even though God created viruses and bacteria- they are, after all, life forms-, they were not at all harmful to any life until Adam and Eve sinned and God cursed creation. AIDS came as a result of sin, especially the rampant immorality that exists in this world. God knew man would rebel against Him and sin before He created Him. He is omniscient, remember? Therefore, to sum up briefly, God created all things in this universe, including all life forms. But He created everything perfect. There was no death or disease. These occurred because of Adam's sin and God's curse on creation.

Nope.

Biological & environmental factors allow viruses to multiply & invade hosts.

A mythological figure can't create anything.

all of that is caused by the original sin of Adam and Eve. their act brought death and sin into the world that before it did not have any of that. that includes all viruses.

From the nicene creed: "We believe in one God, the Father Almighty, Maker of all things visible and invisible."

Why not Islam's God? Why only Christian's God? Or any other God for that matter?

no he did not create it, but yes, he left us to our devices and if we make the bed, we lay in it

The whole of creation lost it's being all "good" (the beginning of creation) when sin entered the world.

man are you going to get a lot of gay bashers for this one. but to answer your question it was nature. viruses mutate like humans and all other living orgasms.

God gave people free will. people created AIDS.

what a silly question.

Sin of homosexuality created AIDS.

No the devil is in control of the world, he created it