Christians do you acknowledge that god created evil?

Question

Isaiah 45:7

Answer 1

I'm not Christian but I should note that in order for mankind to choose good over evil, the choice has to exist. Thus, G-d had to create the evil inclination to begin with.

Answer 2

I think evil is given a human analogy, because God created all things, look at the colors of a rainbow, one color rest upon another according to their color spectrum frequency, and I think Good and Evil are similar on some level...... I honestly believe God creates only Good and I think evil is the result of the misuse of freewill by the ego of the human minds that wills itself to be separate from God by fearing God..... God says he didn't create fear... so therefore he isn't the source of evil, we are, because our minds create it.

Answer 3

That Scripture says nothing about God creating evil. God can not do bad, everything God does is done out of love and with righteousness.

Answer 4

How can belief in Christianity, a cult made by stealing most of Judaism and adding a fake story to it. be considered even a thought.

Answer 5

What God created in the begining was all perfect !

Answer 6

God gave us free will. Some of us misuse thst. Would you prefer it were taken away? Including from you,of course?

Answer 7

Evil is not a thing.

Answer 8

Typical atheistic cherry picking



Again!



Wrong again, you atheistic troll!



Aside from the fact that none of you believe that God exists to begin with!- so all your comments are as irrelevant as your useless lives are:



You can’t deny I’m right!

Answer 9

God created Free Will, not Evil.

Answer 10

No. I acknowledge that Isaiah understood that God created the circumstance wherein evil could exist.

Answer 11

Rightly, Jehovah brought evil or calamity upon Adam for his disobedience. Hence, in the Scriptures, Jehovah is referred to as the Creator of evil or calamity. (Isaiah 45:7) His enforcing of the penalty for sin, namely, death, has proved to be an evil, or a calamity, for mankind. So, then, evil is not always synonymous with wrongdoing. Examples of evils or calamities created by Jehovah are the Flood of Noah’s day and the Ten Plagues visited upon Egypt. But these evils were not wrongs. Rather, the rightful administration of justice against wrongdoers was involved in both cases. However, at times Jehovah, in his mercy, has refrained from bringing the intended calamity or evil in execution of his righteous judgment because of the repentance on the part of those concerned. (Jonah 3:10) Additionally, in having a warning given, Jehovah has undeservedly provided opportunities for the practicers of bad to change their course and thus to keep living.—Ezekiel 33:11.

Answer 12

God is evil...there are people that dont believe in god, if god is real, when those people die they get sent to hell and burn for all of eternity, an infinite punishment for a finite crime. God sits back and watches children be born with cancer, spent the 2 years they are lucky enough to live in a hospital sick all of the time, and then their suffering onlly ends when they die. Christians claim that god is all powerful and omnicient. The suffering that people go through is proof that if God does exist, he is either not all powerful or he is evil incarnate.

Answer 13

No.



They blame it on their other made up character, Satan!

Answer 14

All goodness come from GOD and all evils come from the human hands.

Answer 15

god created EVIL ... feeding the CONCEPT . the definition of EVIL I use INTENT to HARM ..



PEOPLE can display INTENT to Harm



ANIMALS may have INTENT I have watched videos of Chimps going on raids of other groups of chimps that appear to exhibit INTENT to harm



... they can not VERIFY the god..



. adding the ASSERTION of ACTION



even if its not positive only FEEDS their conditioning ..



. depends on ones USE of the word can you ACKNOWLEDGE that which you can NOT VERIFY



ACKNOWLEDGE ( verb ) ( per dictionary ) to accept or ADMIT the EXISTENCE of the TRUTH of " X "



WEBSTERS states acknowledgement is to CONFESS or disclose against ones WILL or inclination



interesting the word ACKNOWLEDGE is not presented as a word until 1553 ( etymology ) meaning to ADMIT or CONFESS that which one had CONCEALED some use it to imply to RECOGNIZE a FACT or TRUTH



.. later it was used in the RELIGIOUS sense to DECLARE ones "BELIEF " per Wikipedia .



... People can BELIEVE a lot of assertions but that does not make them TRUE ...



. BELIEF is a persons CONVICTION of the truth of a PROPOSITION ( proposal ) or allegation WITHOUT DIRECT knowledge

Answer 16

Evil is an eternal thing, difficult to be discovered in living beings before the have a phisical body. This is why it is necessary for humans to be proven here in this planet. Now. I’d like you to visit any of these web pages: https://www.slideshare.net/johnlangdon14/subliminal-images-imagenes-subliminales-1-103247772

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http://encriptado-elmer.blogspot.com/

Answer 17

Assuming that there is a Diety responsible for the creation of this world, its inhabitants, its environment , its terrible illnesses, its overpopulation, its appalling starvation, and the millions who perish in wars between nations, then most certain your God certainly has a funny way of showing his love for you.

Answer 18

As for the statement that God creates evil, it does not mean anything or any practice that is morally wrong. “Evil” as here used does not mean moral evil, of which God could never be guilty, but it refers to a calamity or disaster or destruction, such as he brings upon his unrepentant foes.

Answer 19

GOD CREATED *EVERYTHING* AND IF YOU DON'T BELIEVE THAT, YOU DON'T BELIEVE *HE* IS GOD (DANIEL 4:35)!



WHAT WOULD WE HAVE DONE WITH JUDAS?



GOD CREATES EVIL TO "BRING US TO GOOD" (GENESIS 50:20)!



JUST LOOK THROUGHOUT SCRIPTURE; JOSEPH'S EVIL BROTHERS BROUGHT GOOD, MOSES KILLED AN EGYPTIAN AND BROUGHT GOOD, ABRAHAM LIED ABOUT SARAH NOT BEING HIS WIFE BUT BROUGHT GOOD, DAVID HAD HIS WIFE'S HUSBAND KILLED BUT BROUGHT GOOD>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>



JUST LOOK AT GOD! LOOK HOW HE OPERATES!

Answer 20

An all loving, all powerful, all knowing Being could permit as much evil as He pleased without forfeiting His claim to being all loving, so long as for every evil state of affairs He permits there is an accompanying greater good. Evil serves the limited purpose of establishing real love relationships between creation and the Creator, and evil will be done away with after that purpose is achieved. Rather than saying that God created “evil,” Isaiah 45:7 is presenting a common theme of Scripture – that God brings disaster on those who continue in hard-hearted rebellion against Him.

Answer 21

The Bible shows that God did not create the Devil. Instead, He created the person who became the Devil. Regarding God, the Bible says: “Perfect is his activity, for all his ways are justice. A God of faithfulness, with whom there is no injustice; righteous and upright is he.” (Deuteronomy 32:3-5) From that statement, we can conclude that Satan the Devil was at one time perfect and righteous, namely, one of God’s angelic sons.



At John 8:44, Jesus said that the Devil “did not stand fast in the truth,” implying that Satan had at one time been truthful and guiltless.



However, like the rest of Jehovah’s intelligent creatures, the angel who became Satan had the freedom to choose between right and wrong. By choosing a course in opposition to God and inciting the first human couple to join him, he made himself Satan, which means “Resister.”—Genesis 3:1-5; Revelation 12:9.

Answer 22

Yes, he created you.

Answer 23

God creates ALL things that is why he is God. NOBODY else can create only god. And yes the Bible is HIS words and he says it so it is a fact

Answer 24

Isaiah 45:7

"I form the light, and create darkness: I make peace, and create evil: I the Lord do all these things."



God did not create evil. It is a word that was translated from the Hebrew incorrectly.

Isaiah 45:7 puts forth opposites. Darkness is the opposite of light. Evil is not the opposite of peace. The Hebrew word translated "peace" is shâlôm, Râ‛âh, the Hebrew word translated "evil" in the KJV means adversity or calamity.

Calamity is a correct meaning of the word, not evil.

Answer 25

Let say you build a robot to do good things. It's capable of doing bad, but only if you gave the instructions to carry out your thoughts. Adam and eve were humans with freewill, not robots. But Jehovah did not instruct them to be bad, but To be good.and that goodness was to help keep the earth clean, safe and secured for their future children and to have animals in subjection (Genesis 1,2).However, Satan the devil, who was a good angel, became bad and presented bad. He told the first lie.(Genesis 3)



Romans 5:12

That is why, just as through one man sin entered into the world and death through sin, and so death spread to all men because they had all sinned—.



John 8:44

You are from your father the Devil, and you wish to do the desires of your father. That one was a murderer when he began, and he did not stand fast in the truth, because truth is not in him. When he speaks the lie, he speaks according to his own disposition, because he is a liar and the father of the lie.



Genesis 3:11

At that he said: “Who told you that you were naked? Have you eaten from the tree from which I commanded you not to eat?”



2 Thessalonians 3:13 (Galatians 5)

For your part, brothers, do not give up in doing good.



Luke 6:9

Then Jesus said to them: “I ask you men, Is it lawful on the Sabbath to do good or to do harm, to save a life or to destroy it?” ( Jesus choose to do good, he could have done bad. He also had free will. Matthew/Luke 4)



Job 1,2 proves even imperfect humans can be good.



Today people say and do: (1 Corinthians 6:9,10)



Isaiah 5:20

Woe to those who say that good is bad and bad is good,Those who substitute darkness for light and light for darkness,Those who put bitter for sweet and sweet for bitter!



Galatians 5:22, 23

Study Bible (nwtsty)

22 On the other hand, the fruitage of the spirit is love, joy, peace, patience,* kindness, goodness,+ faith, 23 mildness, self-control.+ Against such things there is no law.



1 John 5:19

Study Bible (nwtsty)

19 We know that we originate with God, but the whole world is lying in the power of the wicked one. (Rev.12:7-12;20)



James 4:7

Therefore, subject yourselves to God; but oppose the Devil, and he will flee from you.

Answer 26

Of course I acknowledge that God created evil haven't you read Genesis and you shall not eat from the Tree of the knowledge of Good and Evil evil and good are both necessary but the only one qualified to dispense Good and Evil is God man is supposed to have only known what is good. But instead he decided to be a thief and steal what did not belong to him now the entire Earth is suffering because of somebody's down out right idiocies

Answer 27

I bet that your philosophy at school was in a position to tilt? The Lord has created what was according to his will, therefore evil l'has always created the'man on earth! If God would have used his omnipotence against'Humanity, here on earth, this'now there'was more none, but his grace goes beyond its limits of human endurance with sins, wars and other!!!



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Psalm 26: 1. The Lord is my light and my salvation,

of whom will I be afraid?

The Lord is the defense of my life,

of whom will I fear?

2 When the wicked assail me

to wreck my flesh,

they are adversaries and enemies,

to stumble and fall.

3 If an army camps against me,

my heart does not fear;

if the battle flares up against me,

even then I trust.

4 One thing I asked the Lord,

I only look for this one:

to live in the house of the Lord

every day of my life,

to taste the sweetness of the Lord

and admire his sanctuary.

5 He offers me a place of refuge

on the day of misfortune.

He hides me in the secret of his home,

he lifts me to the cliff.



Psalm 32: 18. Behold,'eye of the LORD is upon them that fear him, Upon them that hope in his lovingkindness, 19 to liberate them from death and keep them alive.



Psalm 145: 8. The LORD is merciful and full of compassion,

slow to anger and of great goodness.

9 The LORD is good to all,

full of compassion for all his works.

10 All your works will celebrate you,

or LORD,

and your faithful will bless you.

11 They will speak of the glory of your kingdom

and they will tell your power

12 to make known to the sons of men your wonders

and the majestic glory of your kingdom.

13 Your kingdom is an everlasting kingdom

and your domain lasts for every age.

14 The LORD supports all those who fall

and raise all those who are bent.

15 Everyone's eyes are for you,

and you give them food at the time.

16 You open your hand,

and from food at will to all the living.

17 The LORD is right in all his ways

and benevolent in all his works.

18 The LORD is close to all those who invoke him,

to all those who invoke him in truth.

19 He fulfills the desire of those who fear him,

hear their cry, and save them.

20 The LORD preserveth all them that'love, but will destroy all the wicked.





Isaiah 41: 10.

Do not be afraid, because I am with you;

do not get lost, because I am your God.

I make you strong and I also help you

and I support you with the victorious right.

11 Behold, they will be ashamed and confused

how many raged against you;

they will be reduced to nothing and will perish

the men who opposed you.

12 You will seek, but you will not find,

those who argued with you;

will be reduced to nothing, to zero,

those who waged war.

13 For I am the Lord your God

that I hold you for the right

and I say to you: "Do not be afraid, I will come to your aid".

Answer 28

Isaiah 45:7 states: “I form the light, and create darkness; I make peace, and create evil; I am Jehovah, that doeth all these things.” (AS) Jehovah God sows light for righteously disposed ones, and through his Word the Bible enlightens their minds, but he brings mental darkness upon those who willfully continue in a wrong course. (Ps. 82:5-7; 97:11; 2 Pet. 2:4; Jude 13) Peace of mind, even now, is the lot of those devoted to God and his service, and in the new world under the reign of his Prince of Peace all then living will rejoice in that blessed state forever. (Ps. 72:1, 4, 7, 8; Isa. 9:6, 7) As for the statement that God creates evil, it does not mean anything or any practice that is morally wrong. “Evil” as here used does not mean moral evil, of which God could never be guilty, but it refers to a calamity or disaster or destruction, such as he brings upon his unrepentant foes, and that particularly at the battle of Armageddon. From rebellious Adam’s time onward punishment has come from God upon the willfully wicked, and this has been wholly just on God’s part, but it has been as an evil to the ones meriting it. This matter is discussed at great length in the two-part article entitled “Peace and Evil”, appearing in the May 1 and 15, 1930, issues of The Watchtower.

Answer 29

Yes, I do- to an extent. He did make it.

Answer 30

Yes, he said that he was the creator of all things including good and evil. he's all powerful, all knowing. God created the devil for the purpose he had. and he created the wicked on purpose, just so he can destroy them Proverbs 16:4, to make his power and wrath known Romans 9:22

Answer 31

No he didn’t creat evil. God created choices. The evil mentioned in Isaiah 45:7 is not moral evil. What is mentioned is destruction final end to evil. apon the the ones who willfully and continue to do evil.

Answer 32

Idk

Answer 33

NO SINCE the devil was perfect till he sinned.

Answer 34

Yes of course. Yahweh - Loving Father, God as Christians understand Him, is a God of choice and had to clearly set forth before us life and death, blessing and cursing, right and wrong, good and evil. If God had not given humanity choice, we would essentially be robots, simply doing what we were programmed to do. Thankfully, God created us to be “free” beings, able to make decisions, able to choose between good and evil. In order for us to truly be free, we have to have a choice, correct?.

Answer 35

GOD is eternal and never changes. We are experiencing GOD as He steadily reveals everything that He Is not, (the 'negation' proofs), as well as everything that He Is, (the 'affirmative' proofs).



Central to GOD's nature is liberty, (2 Corinthians 3:17). Liberty requires having a choice. Choice requires some alternative containing a version of everything that GOD offers to us upon His path. This alternative is what we call 'evil' or 'diabolos,' (Greek: 'the deep purpose'). Usually translated 'the devil,' diabolos is a tongue-in-cheek name ascribed to evil by GOD to remind us that the 'alternative' draws us in by attempting to make itself seem 'mysterious, deep or secretly better' than GOD and His path. In reality, evil is the absence of something, not the presence of something.



So did GOD also create the absence of substance, worth, value, purpose, direction, meaning, goodness, honor, decency, loyalty and every other thing that He Is not?



Yes.



In the same way that human composers 'create' the spaces in between notes when playing music, or orators 'create' the pauses in between phrases of dramatic oratory speech. Is the 'absence' of music and speech 'deep, mysterious and better' than the music and speech themselves? Does it take on 'greater' meaning than the art by playing its role?



No. Of course not.



It will never be 'greater' or even equal to the art, no matter how we try to infuse it with meaning apart from the notes and the words, which give it the appearance of purpose and meaning. Apart from these, (apart from GOD's 'option'), neither has any value at all. They are 'worthless,' (Hebrew: 'belial'), which is exactly what 'evil' means.

Answer 36

Evil to me is ignorance. Science has shown me that I am able to overcome any evil in me with some education. Imagine what evil I would be able to overcome if I had lots of it (education)?

Answer 37

NO!! Bad Translation dear :) A better translation is " I form the light and create darkness, I make peace and create calamity/ disaster; I YehoVaH, do all these things."

Answer 38

The question you present is misleading.



Truthfully, the Almighty will bring judgment on those who rebel.

“Woe to him who quarrels with his Master” (Isaiah 45:9). That is the person to whom God will bring evil and disaster.



Therefore, rather than saying that God created moral evil, Isaiah 45:7 is presenting a common theme of Scripture – that God will bring disaster on those who continue in a hard-hearted rebellion.



When we place the cart before the horse we fail to understand the most basic principle.

Answer 39

If there were no darkness there would be no need for light. I am sad that the concept of the Divine Creator of all things having an absolute right to do exactly as He so chooses is beyond you but hardly surprising from an individual who doesn't mind people being put in a shoe-box with the label INTJ.



Why don't you break free of the shoe-box and become a free spirit?



My understanding is that everything which God has created began pure but then fell from grace so it is slightly contentious as to whether God actually makes thing or being which is actually evil it is just that ALL things were created by Him so that which has become evil was still the work of His hand.



However, the punch line is that everything which God does is good and whether you like it or accept it or not will change nothing.



Incidentally, before you start running some of these good people down why don't y'all tell us what your personal hang up is in life, i.e. why you don't want there to be a God in the first place.



Also, if you are going to go down the road named "Everything bad that happens is God's fault for not stopping it or preventing it!" then I will be tempted to put you in a shoe-box marked "moron". People are evil, not God. End of.

Answer 40

God created the possibility of evil --- by allowing us, His intelligent creations, to have a choice. A choice to follow Him, or something else. And anything else is evil. God did not create evil, He created a choice. In order to allow us freedom. Love isn't love if it isn't freely given. Robots cannot love. But He will use evil, if He has to, to corral us, or draw us, back to Him, if we will allow it to. This is why so many are turned to Christ -- because of the tribulations in their lives. But others, instead of submitting to God, use those same tribulations that are familiar to us all, to harden their hearts against God. Satan is the author of evil, but God uses the choices he makes, to turn His errant children around. If they will be His children. Romans 8:28.

Answer 41

God made everything and all is good but when you use something good to hurt others it can be evil.



Therefore like Yesmar who is someone I have worked on this forum for years his statement is somewhat correct.

If God forced people to only do good and not allow them to make mistakes and learn then that would be evil because unless people learn from mistakes they do not know they are mistakes.



I think God is mad about illegal drugs that can hurt the innocence of people and keep them from learning things on their own.

You need to learn by reading books and having experiences and not by stealing information from others and preventing them from profiting from their hard works.



But perhaps God would interfere if the survival of the earth and all life on it was threatened by the selfish decisions of those only seeking what pleases them.

Answer 42

There is a scripture I have a hard time finding, it says, paraphrasing, that God deals justly with the just, mercifully with the merciful, lovingly with those who show this quality, and wickedly with the wicked, treacherously with the treacherous.



If you look at the Deluge, at Sodom & Gomorrah, and many other events, you will see that God indeed does evil to the wicked. Soon, this wicked world and the ones who perpetrate wickedness shall get pay back in full. I hope you are on the right side when the sheet hits the fan.



I sure try to do what I can to minimize my wickedness. The payback is blow for blow, eye for an eye - there is no escaping his justice, though the ones that deserve mercy will get it though all shall be disciplined.



General existence of evil:

Since God gave all, angel, man, animals somewhat, free will - there is no avoiding that some misuse this and do evil. That this is permitted is obvious; however, how can God judge and execute judgment against the wicked if they are not permitted to be so for some time proving themselves wicked?!



Thus satan, his angels, and his human servants - clearly do wickedness with glee. Their evil shall come to an end once judgment is executed. Then they shall be no longer.



It would be profitable for all not to be part of their crowd; though, wickedness does pay off in the short run. Even the Bible says this.

Answer 43

Yes.

Answer 44

Isaiah 45:7 has the phrase "I... create evil" in some translations (such as the KJV). This, however, is the opposite of "peace" in that verse, and not "evil" in the sense of sin or breaking God's law.



Here is how a couple of other translations record that same verse:



"I form light and create darkness; I make well-being and create calamity; I am the Lord, who does all these things." (ESV)



"I form the light and create darkness, I bring prosperity and create disaster; I, the Lord, do all these things." (NIV)



Here again, we see this concept is the opposite of "well-being" or "prosperity" and is translated as "calamity" or "disaster".



So did God create "evil" (as we would commonly think of that word)?



In a way. By giving His law, that made some things right in His sight. At the same time, it made other things wrong.



For example, when God said "Remember the Sabbath day" and told the Israelites how that was to be done, that made it right to do that, and at the same time, it made it wrong to disobey that law.



God established something was right, and thereby established other things were wrong.



But God did not commit the evil. Those who made that choice for themselves did.



When God told Adam to not eat of a certain tree, God made that action "evil" by that declaration. (He declared it to be evil.) But God did not make Adam eat of the tree. Adam and Eve did that by their own choices, but that action was evil because God had already declared it to be such.

Answer 45

I acknowledge that you are stupid. English has one word 'evil' to cover what Hebrew uses two for : Moral evil and Physical evil



"Isaiah 45:7 ▻. I form the light, and create darkness: I make peace, and create evil: I the LORD do .... and create evil] i.e. not moral evil, but physical evil"

Answer 46

Nº. Read on, don't cherry pick. God causes mayhem=evil. Doesn't mean satanical evil.



All words have meanings. This is Hebrew, not English.

Many are led astray.



Good does not CREATE evil.

Gotta be logical.

Answer 47

"I am the Lord, and there is no other.

7 I form the light and create darkness,

I bring prosperity and create disaster;

I, the Lord, do all these things.



8 “You heavens above, rain down my righteousness;

let the clouds shower it down.

Let the earth open wide,

let salvation spring up,

let righteousness flourish with it;





All that is He created, including the laws of nature.



Though His design of nature works, God has intervened at times and brought good or destruction at times. Mostly we see nature in action, but at special moments God can intervene and alter the outcome, according to His ultimate purposes.



This is a temporary life here, where we are to trust and follow His law: "Love one another".

But in the afterlife, there will be an accounting and perfect justice for all, and the innocent and the forgiven can expect eternal life in a perfected world (the "new Earth") or even in heaven.

Answer 48

"Evil" in this particular case is being used in the sense "disaster" or "misfortune" - I point out, a sense that it is rarely used in modern times, though it does still appear in the dictionary.



Read any modern, scholarly translation and you will see something along the lines of "disaster" or "misfortune". For example:

https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=isa+45%3A7&version=NASB;NRSV



Conclusion: many people misunderstand the King James Version because of its archaic usage of modern words. You should not rely on the King James Version unless you are well-versed (i.e. fluent) in early Modern English.

Answer 49

There is no doubt that evil exists. If, as the Christians maintain, that at one point there was nothing but god, and then he created everything that there is, then it is inescapable that god created evil.

Answer 50

Christians are people who follow the teaching of Jesus Christ. You cited a Jewish writing hundreds of years before Jesus arrived.



No. God didn't created evil, therefore it's an illusion you think is real.

Answer 51

98% of the american people are identifying as christian; being a skeptic, i have to ask myself two-questions: [1]. how probable is it? , and [2]. how true is it?

if there is historical - doctrinal proof, and theoretical proof, all that is lacking is "actual" proof.

actual proof would be the country of america, actually becoming peaceful, and all of the people came to peace.



that would be a modern miracle.

Answer 52

No

Answer 53

Does the Lord Create Evil?

In the first part of this verse Isaiah laid out contrasts:



“I form the light, and create darkness”



“I make peace, and create evil”



Since the opposite of peace is sorrow or trouble, the translation from the New American Catholic Bible makes better sense: (and NO, I am NOT Catholic) “I form the light, and create the darkness, I make well-being and create woe.” The idea is that the Lord is the author of peace, but that He also sends judgments upon the wicked who are ripe in iniquity. Therefore, even when the wicked are punished by the wicked (see Mormon 4:5), it is under the direction of the Lord.

Answer 54

One academic theologian says: belief in hell make us trusting and loyal to Jesus.

Answer 55

I'm amazed at the amount of sceptics like yourself who love the KJV so much, one would think that they were still back in medieval England. Use of this translation is problematic these days, since it uses an archaic version of modern English, which doesn't necessarily mean the same things today as when it was translated over 400 years ago. In addition, the KJV was produced using a limited number of medieval manuscripts that did not represent the earliest Alexandrian set of manuscripts. Isaiah 45:7 is directed to Cyrus king of Persia, and must be understood as spoken in reference to the Persian sect of the Magicians; who then held light and darkness, or good and evil, to be the supreme Beings, without acknowledging the great God as superior to both;'' God did not create evil, but He allowed it. If He had not allowed evil, Christians would be worshiping Him out of obligation, not by a choice of our own will.

Answer 56

that's actually not what the manuscripts suggest or say.



when i read this, i think of the level of the asker.

their agenda and reason asking this.



GOD did not create immorality (EVIL).

GOD allows tumult to come to the wicked children who deserve punishment.



HE sets things up.....(careful planning)

careful enough where they (the wicked) will (NOT) see that it is GOD. (the planning)

- satan can also be used in this.





money is usually the first to go.

car issues? losses? strange things?



if this is not enough then other things can happen.

drugs? (police issues?) driving?



i can go deeper.





here are all the words for evil (Hebrew alone)



http://www.eliyah.com/cgi-bin/strongs.cgi?file=hebrewlexicon&isindex=evil





only ONE WORD (the same word) was used in that verse.



do you know which one? (take a guess)



its not these......



5766 `evel eh'-vel or lavel {aw'-vel}; and (feminine) lavlah {av-law'}; or owlah {o-law'}; or .olah {o-law'}; from 5765; (moral) evil:--iniquity, perverseness, unjust(-ly), unrighteousness(-ly); wicked(-ness). 5767 `avval av-vawl' intensive from 5765; evil (morally):--unjust, unrighteous, wicked.





try this one......



7451 ra` rah from 7489; bad or (as noun) evil (natural or moral):-- adversity, affliction, bad, calamity, + displease(-ure), distress,





if you sew perversion?

calamity will come.



notice in the bible the wicked usually were corrected by an enemy.

- Nations?



what about personal issues?



satan sinned.

GOD did not create sin.

its a by product of satans free will choices. (SELF PRIDE)

thats a naughty sin. (thinking you are over others)



most atheists seem to enjoy this sin (so i have noticed).

who can help a know it all?



not me.....

Answer 57

The Christian God is the only God Who exists and a person can know this with certainty by reciting daily and with care the angelic psalter of the Virgin Mary.

Answer 58

i acknowledge thats what it seems to say, i have read the verse and continued reading! but what God says is that HE takes responsibility for causing evil to happen.

He chose Jesus in the pre existence to be the savior of the world and Lucifer wanted this, but when he was rejected he would not submit to Jesus and caused a war in heaven, seriously, lucifer became satan and chose his own path to become evil; good and evil seem to have always existed