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NASB | Isaiah 45:7 The One forming light and creating darkness, Causing well-being and creating calamity; I am the LORD who does all these. |
AMPLIFIED 2015 | Isaiah 45:7 The One forming light and creating darkness, Causing peace and creating disaster; I am the LORD who does all these things. |
Bible Question: Did God create evil? |
Bible Answer: I have read some of this thread and ....I don't know why but this seems simple to me..... Sin is twisted or perverted good...love/hate, faith/fear life/death give/covet.. Romans tells us that had the LAW not come there would be no sin. Sin, which is evil, is to oppose God's laws. Adam and Eve were given one command..do not eat, and they acted evil by choosing to disobey. When free will is given inevitably someone or something (Satan and his angelic following) will choose to rebel. But had there been no law, and had there been no choice, there would be no evil...Evil was not created, Romans 7:6-8 6 But now we are delivered from the law, that being dead wherein we were held; that we should serve in newness of spirit, and not in the oldness of the letter. 7 What shall we say then? Is the law sin? God forbid. Nay, I had not known sin, but by the law: for I had not known lust, except the law had said, Thou shalt not covet. 8 But sin, taking occasion by the commandment, wrought in me all manner of concupiscence. For without the law sin was dead. Anything that does not fulfill this commandment is sin. Matthew 22:36 Master, which is the great commandment in the law? 37 Jesus said unto him, Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind. God bless |