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1 | Why is the thread associated with ID# .. | 2 Pet 2:4 | Country Girl | 127393 | ||
Again, I'm not an expert on the subject; I'll let Tim Moran and the other scholars on languages speak to that. But I think the scripture you refer to in Isaiah is hinged on a word that can be interpreted a couple of different ways. Here, "create evil" really means to us that God allowed its introduction into the world because he allowed the Devil to choose that path of ungodliness. This can be compared to parent-child relationship here on earth. The parent tells the child over and over again not to do a certain thing like riding a bike without a helment or touch a hot oven but the child goes ahead and does it, insisting on having his way and finds a whole new definition for pain. From the child's young naive perspective, the parent created this situation in giving the bike or bringing the hot oven into his world. From our naive and physical, limited and finite minds, it appears the evil in the world came from God since He created the world and everything in it. But we forget the Devil was also created and God said EVERYTHING He created in the beginning was good. So again, obviously the Devil gets ALL the credit for actually bringing sin, pain, suffereing AND evil into the world. I'm afraid I can offer no specific verse to corrobarate my conclusion other than those to which I've alluded earlier. Keep studying and praying, dear friend. Blessings to you. Country Girl PS: I would invite our language scholars to chime in and contribute to the discussion. Thanks. |
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2 | When did the devil sin? | 2 Pet 2:4 | TheFinalSQL | 127403 | ||
Did the devil sin before or after God created the tree of the knowledge of good and evil? Praise the Lord! Norm |
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3 | When did the devil sin? | 2 Pet 2:4 | Stultis the Fool | 127412 | ||
The devil sinned "from the beginning." [1 John 3:8] Turn to page one in your bible, and you will see the "begining." Here God creates light, and darkness is already "over the surface of the waters." "In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth. The earth was formless and void, and darkness was over the surface of the deep, and the Spirit of God was moving over the surface of the waters. Then God said, "Let there be light"; and there was light." Throughout the scriptures, we see a comparison between good and evil, sin and righteousness, and light and darkness, [Mattew 6:22-23, Luke 11:34-36, John 1:5, John 1:7-9, John 3:19-21, John 8:12, and many more] and here in Genesis we see these very things manifested. We (Christians) know we are the "light of the world," and we know Satan is the "Prince" of this world. We know that this world is a fleshly world and a wicked place. Read the epistles (particularly Romans, Corinthians, and Galatians) and you will see this very thing. We shine like beacons in the dark, leading others amongst all the world (which is darkness) to the Gospel. If we consider the "beginning," and we look to it, we can see in scripture the very beginning of the premises of light and darkness, good and evil, and also, the answere to your question. Possibly. :) |
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4 | Who did the devil murder? | 2 Pet 2:4 | TheFinalSQL | 127422 | ||
Who did the devil murder? We are told by Jesus that the devil was a murderer from the beginning: John 8:44 Ye are of your father the devil, and the lusts of your father ye will do. He was a murderer from the beginning, and abode not in the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he speaketh a lie, he speaketh of his own: for he is a liar, and the father of it. Praise the Lord! Norm |
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5 | Who did the devil murder? | 2 Pet 2:4 | Stultis the Fool | 127425 | ||
We are told that to transgress the Law in any way is to transgress the Law in all ways. James says "For whoever keeps the whole law and yet stumbles in one point, he has become guilty of all." He illustrates with the following example: "For He who said, "DO NOT COMMIT ADULTERY," also said, "DO NOT COMMIT MURDER." Now if you do not commit adultery, but do commit murder, you have become a transgressor of the law." I hope this helps answer your question. |
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6 | Who did the devil murder? | 2 Pet 2:4 | TheFinalSQL | 127426 | ||
The father of lies: Genesis 3:4 And the serpent said unto the woman, Ye shall not surely die: Murderer from the beginning: Genesis 3:6 And when the woman saw that the tree was good for food, and that it was pleasant to the eyes, and a tree to be desired to make one wise, she took of the fruit thereof, and did eat, and gave also unto her husband with her; and he did eat. I would have to conclude the tree of the knowledge of good and evil was created before the devil sinned. God created evil. He created everything. John 1:3 All things were made by him; and without him was not any thing made that was made. Without evil there would not be the freedom of choice, we would have been robots: Joshua 24:15 And if it seem evil unto you to serve the LORD, choose you this day whom ye will serve; whether the gods which your fathers served that were on the other side of the flood, or the gods of the Amorites, in whose land ye dwell: but as for me and my house, we will serve the LORD. Praise the Lord! Norm |
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