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According to the Bible (Isaiah 45:7) God creates evil. Why do so many people, especially evangelical types, find this so hard to understand and accept?
Because, paradoxically, "God is love".According to the Bible (Isaiah 45:7) God creates evil. Why do so many people, especially evangelical types, find this so hard to understand and accept?
Evil?...as in doing harm?
Or evil as intention.... deliberate and destructive?
So if you were God and saw a need to destroy something, to prevent further spread of it...
that would be evil?
If you were the devil and temptation is your tool to keep Man from entering heaven....
that would be evil?
So maybe, allowing the devil to tempt is evil?
Then if you fall to temptation you get to blame God?
as if you never had any freewill?
So many questions....
According to the Bible (Isaiah 45:7) God creates evil. Why do so many people, especially evangelical types, find this so hard to understand and accept?
No. The better translation (given parallelism and counterposition) is:According to the Bible (Isaiah 45:7) God creates evil.
According to the Bible (Isaiah 45:7) God creates evil. Why do so many people, especially evangelical types, find this so hard to understand and accept?
In Genesis, it says God created everything out of nothing. By default, God HAD to create evil and allow it to exist, otherwise the opposite of good would just be nothing, as God wouldn't have created an alternative.
In Genesis, it says God created everything out of nothing. By default, God HAD to create evil and allow it to exist, otherwise the opposite of good would just be nothing, as God wouldn't have created an alternative.
This leads to the obvious next question-What is the difference between good and evil?
That is not necessarily true.In Genesis, it says God created everything out of nothing.
We have a winner!!
good seeks to upbuild, evil seeks to tear down
evil doesnt 'exist'
if you do something bad to someone, you've performed an act of evil...but once you've completed the evil act, the evil is no more. Its only an action.
That is not necessarily true.
That is not necessarily true.
S/he never told me. I am addressing what I believe to be problematic translations of Biblical Hebrew. I prefer the JPS Torah which renders the opening lines of Genesis as:What else did God have to work with but nothing and not nothing (God) at the moment of creation?That is not necessarily true.In Genesis, it says God created everything out of nothing.
And I am simply pointing out that you and BSM1 may be misreading the text.I'm not trying to be argumentative, ...