Who Created Evil?

[Guest antiantichrist]

I was wondering if God did creat evil. The reason why is i heard that if God created evil than he is not both good and holy, but i know that God is good and holy; so did God really creat evil?

Ryan Carr

[Ovedya]

I'm afraid you heard wrong. God did not create evil.

[Leonard]

Your thinking is incorrect. 'Evil' is not a "thing," which is created. It is a way of categorizing 'things' or events.

Things or events may be spoken of as 'created' but in the sense you are using the word, 'evil' does not have ontos.

[Guest Thomas I believe]

I was wondering if God did creat evil. The reason why is i heard that if God created evil than he is not both good and holy, but i know that God is good and holy; so did God really creat evil?

Ryan Carr

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Ryan, I am praying for knowlegde of the truth here !! God represents all that is good so I am not sure about the evil part.

[Yahsway]

Isaiah 45:7 I form the light and create darkness: I make peace, and create evil: I the Lord do all these things.

[Matthitjah]

Yahsway,

Moral evil/sin;

Jas

[Cherub_Rocket]

Evil is simply an absence of good. The less good, the more evil.

[Matthitjah]

Grace to you,

I would like to pose a question?

God is Sovereign.

So the question is this.

He could certainly stop any and all current tribulations in your life. He could also keep you from sin. However if He did do that. Where would that leave you? Would you ever advance in your walk? How would He obtain Glory from a Rose encased in glass? Kept from sin? The Rose was made to reflect God's Glory and to give off a fragrance and reflect His very Glory, Righteousness, and Beauty.

He is the refiners fire the launderers soap.

He has to purge the silver of any dross. Otherwise no reflection

As He did many times in the past with the Nation Israel. He allows certain calamity's to befall His people. So that they may be shaken from their very slumber. To show then the wages of sin. He has also at various and sundry times used those like Cyrus to advance His Glory and the ends to His Mighty means for His elects sake and His very Glory. He did not Create evil but will fulfill His purposes in it by keeping it in check.

Peace,

Dave

[RGR]

Try Isaih 45:7 in a more modern translation and see what you get-totally different!

[shammah]

Greetings all:

Lucifer was created with the abuility to choose to serve God, but pride entered in, and he wanted to be like God! He convinced one third of the angels that he was like God and caused them to follow him!

Pride always comes before the fall, and before there was money, there was power, and it became the source of all evil!

Pride caused the most beautiful and intelligent creation of God to become totally reprobate and want to destroy all that God had planned for Man!

Because man would also be given the choice to follow God, or believe the Lie that he, or she, could be just like God, knowing good and evil! More like Satan knowing good and evil, because God is not tempted by evil!

So Lucifer wanted to be like God, decieved the angels they could be like God, then decieved man they could be like God, and he is still selling that lie today!

It was the original sin, pride led to the fall, and all other fleshly and evil desires, then Cain murdered Abel shortly after!

Free will allows us to choose sin or Holiness, and the Holy Spirit working through a yeilded vessel , can now live and walk in the Spirit!

But who is willing to die to themselves and live a crucified life?

Those who choose the crucified life, sin has no more hold over them, and the evil has no place in a life dead to self and alive in Christ!

Agape; Ephraim,