This is the verse when God says He "creates evil; I the Lord do all these things" etc. Well, I looked up other verses in the Bible where "Ra" is translated as "evil" - and it does INDEED refer to moral evil! My Bible language dictionaries back me up on this!!! So...?
2007-01-03 13:30:32 · 6 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
God is ruler over light and darkness, over good times and bad times. Our lives are sprinkled with both types of experiences, and both are needed for us to grow spiritually. When good times come, thank God and use your prosperity for him. When bad times come, don’t resent them, but ask what you can learn from this refining experience to make you a better servant of God.
2007-01-03 13:35:20 · answer #1 · answered by djm749 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Just as in English, words in Hebrew have different meanings depending on the context. This word means, "evil", "bad", "wicked", "noxious", "evil in appearance, deformed", "unhappy, unfortunate", or sad.
One commentary says that in Isaiah 45.7, "His claim to create evil should be interpreted accordingly. This is not moral evel, but the judgments which Jehovah sends into history. He is speaking of the distress and disaster which men experience from God as a consequence of their sin".
2007-01-03 13:44:24 · answer #2 · answered by Weird Darryl 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
isa 45:7Â Forming light and creating darkness, making peace and creating calamity, I, Jehovah, am doing all these things.
(Ecclesiastes 7:14) On a good day prove yourself to be in goodness, and on a calamitous day see that the [true] God has made even this exactly as that, to the intent that mankind may not discover anything at all after them.
(Isaiah 10:6) Against an apostate nation I shall send him, and against the people of my fury I shall issue a command to him, to take much spoil and to take much plunder and to make it a trampling place like the clay of the streets.
(Jeremiah 18:7) At any moment that I may speak against a nation and against a kingdom to uproot [it] and to pull [it] down and to destroy [it],
(Amos 3:6) If a horn is blown in a city, do not also the people themselves tremble? If a calamity occurs in the city, is it not also Jehovah who has acted?
2007-01-03 13:36:04 · answer #3 · answered by gary d 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Hebrew is a beautiful language of subtlities and...pointing or adding of vowels. More likely the word is "woe" or "sorrow" w/o moral connotation. The word does mean "evil" in the vast, vast majority of cases, but certainly not exclusively.
2007-01-03 15:40:52 · answer #4 · answered by Joe Cool 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
what other kind of evil IS there?
2007-01-03 13:32:32 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
I think jewish girl has a point, don't you?
2007-01-03 13:35:30 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋