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1 | Did God create evil? | 3 John 1:11 | kalos | 5340 | ||
Cephas: No, God did not create evil. Who did? No one did. To reason that if God did not create evil, then He is not the creator of everything is a new and strange kind of logic I am not familiar with. The Bible specifically says in plain English that God IS the Creator of everything that was created. Nowhere does the Bible say or imply that evil is a created thing. "Evil originates not from God but from the fallen creature. I agree with John Calvin, who wrote, "'It is helpful, I think, to understand that sin is not itself a thing created. Sin is neither substance, being, spirit, nor matter. So it is technically not proper to think of sin as something that was created. Sin is simply a want of moral perfection in a fallen creature. Fallen creatures themselves bear full responsibility for their sin. And all evil in the universe emanates from the sins of fallen creatures. "For example, Romans 5:12 says that death entered the world because of sin. Death, pain, disease, stress, exhaustion, calamity, and all the bad things that happen came as a result of the entrance of sin into the universe (see Genesis 3:14-24). All those evil effects of sin continue to work in the world and will be with us as long as sin is.'" For further study see: Jay Adams, The Grand Demonstration (Santa Barbara CA: Eastgate,1991). Copyright 2000 Grace to You |
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2 | isaiah 45:7 | 3 John 1:11 | Buf | 5347 | ||
JVHO212. could you please tell me what ISAIAH 45:7 means? in the kjv GOD says that he creates evil. |
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3 | isaiah 45:7 | 3 John 1:11 | kalos | 5348 | ||
Buf: Occasionally someone will quote Isaiah 45:7 (KJV) and claim it proves God made evil as a part of His creation: "I form the light, and create darkness: I make peace, and create evil: I the Lord do all these things" (emphasis added). But the New American Standard Bible gives the sense of Isaiah 45:6-7 more clearly: "There is no one besides Me. I am the Lord, and there is no other, the One forming light and creating darkness, causing well-being and creating calamity; I am the Lord who does all these." In other words, God devises calamity as a judgment for the wicked. But in no sense is He the author of evil. |
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