Did God Create Evil?
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e v e
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man in His original had no evil and was perfect. God said His creation was good.
That is 100% true
jeremiah1five
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Scripture says otherwise:
6 That they may know from the rising of the sun, and from the west,
That there is none beside me.
I am the LORD, and there is none else.
7 I form the light, and create darkness:
I make peace, and create evil:
I the LORD do all these things.
Isaiah 45:6–7.
There's no way to understand this passage than literally. Yet there are many who see this and try to explain it away as something it is not or by claiming it doesn't say exactly what is written that God did create evil and He is the Author of it in creating sinful man for there is only ONE God; there is NONE like Him; and He gives His glory to NO ONE.
jeremiah1five
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The word "good" in the creation narrative means "good [enough]" or "to specification."
In other words, God is declaring the 'thing' He's creating is to His specification, according to the way He desired it to be.
The word has nothing to do with "perfection" except in the sense that the thing created is according to His specification, perfect as He desired it. There is no sense of morals or morality to this word. It is moral-exclusive.
Complete
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(5) I am the LORD, and there is none else,
there is no God beside me:
I girded thee, though thou hast not known me:
(6) That they may know from the rising of the sun, and from the west,
that there is none beside me.
I am the LORD, and there is none else.
(7) I form the light, and create darkness:
I make peace, and create evil: (i.e., God brings about disturbance - the opposite of peace, not evil as we know it)
I the LORD do all these things.
(Isa 45:5-7)
Hello Eve,
I hope this helps.
In Christ Jesus
Chris
Ezek 18:20
Berean Standard Bible
The soul who sins is the one who will die. A son will not bear the iniquity of his father, and a father will not bear the iniquity of his son.
ImCo:
Delegated responsibility is a man made concept to try to reconcile the facts that we are conceived in sin but GOD is holy and cannot create sinners. But it ignores the possibility that our conception is not our creation...
I contend that we are created innocent and not in sin but after we self created ourselves as sinful by a free will rebellion against HIM, we are conceived as sinners and born on earth to fulfill our redemption or our reprobation.
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Eternally-Grateful
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I see it as God created the possibility of evil by giving his creation free will. then placing a tree in the garden, and saying the moment you eat this you will die.
e v e
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I disagree.
101G
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Correct, Evil is not "Sin". nor is Evil an imprisonment. just as the devil is not sin, but EVIL. let's see some good example, Psalms 78:42 "They remembered not his hand, nor the day when he delivered them from the enemy." Psalms 78:43 "How he had wrought his signs in Egypt, and his wonders in the field of Zoan:" Psalms 78:44 "And had turned their rivers into blood; and their floods, that they could not drink." Psalms 78:45 "He sent divers sorts of flies among them, which devoured them; and frogs, which destroyed them." Psalms 78:46 "He gave also their increase unto the caterpiller, and their labour unto the locust." Psalms 78:47 "He destroyed their vines with hail, and their sycomore trees with frost." Psalms 78:48 "He gave up their cattle also to the hail, and their flocks to hot thunderbolts." Psalms 78:49 "He cast upon them the fierceness of his anger, wrath, and indignation, and trouble, by sending evil angels among."
God sent those EVIL Angels into Egypt. so, is God evil? no. Good is just the opposite of evil, to a means. both are in the economy of God to used as he see fit.
another example, lying is a sin, correct. for God hats sin... right. scripture, Proverbs 6:16 "These six things doth the LORD hate: yea, seven are an abomination unto him:" Proverbs 6:17 "A proud look, a lying tongue, and hands that shed innocent blood," Proverbs 6:18 "An heart that deviseth wicked imaginations, feet that be swift in running to mischief," Proverbs 6:19 "A false witness that speaketh lies, and he that soweth discord among brethren."
a lying tongue, Psalms 101:7 "He that worketh deceit shall not dwell within my house: he that telleth lies shall not tarry in my sight." well then, why was God having a conversation with the devil in the book of Job? see, the devil is the father of lies, but he is not SIN, but evil. and if one liusten to him without all knowledge and power, he could cause ... YOU ... to sin.
101G.
Maybe less complex as you think.
Consider a couple of questions -
1. When God created the angels, did He foreknew some of them (among the devil) would fall from grace?
If you think the answer is yes, God foreknew, then why did He created them after all ?
2. When God create A&E, did He foreknew they would fall?
If you think the answer is yes, God foreknew, then why did God created us after all ?
Does this make God the author of sin?
Of course not.
In fact we read in Revelation about Jesus being called the Lamb slain from the foundation of the world.
Meaning, before God created, knowing everything in advance, God the Father and God the Son agreed to the plan of the Lamb slain from the foundation of the world. Jesus who would restore everything.
Can you feel the love?
jeremiah1five
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Good for you.
