is creating evil an act of evil?

Question

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

if its "mistranslated" then how can u say there are no errors in it?

(please reply with something in response to the question, dont give me your "beating around the bush" tactics and prove your inability to answer a simple question)

Answer 1

Evil in the hebrew here means destruction (also, the NIV translation literally says "destruction"), and in this specific prophecy from Isaiah (the prophet), it means God brings destruction on the nations that are un-godly.

Here Isaiah prophecies the destruction of King Cyrus' Empire 125 years before Cyrus was born!

Creating pure evil would be a difficult task to undertake. This verse explains how God can and will destroy the nations that defy him continously. History shows the proof in that. Empires have risen and fallen through the ages.

The Kingdom of Heaven shall never fall.

It's always good to read the entire chapter of a confusing verse.

Answer 2

Cyrus was nominated, in the foregoing chapter, to be God’s shepherd; more is said to him and more of him in this chapter, not only because he was to be instrumental in the release of the Jews out of their captivity, but because he was to be therein a type of the great Redeemer, and that release was to be typical of the great redemption from sin and death; for that was the salvation of which all the prophets witnessed.

God here asserts his sole and sovereign dominion, as that which he designed to prove and manifest to the world in all the great things he did for Cyrus and by him.

(v. 7): I form the light, which is grateful and pleasing, and I create darkness, which is grievous and unpleasing. I make peace (put here for all good) and I create evil, not the evil of sin (God is not the author of that), but the evil of punishment. I the Lord order, and direct, and do all these things. Observe, (1.) The very different events that befal the children of men. Light and darkness are opposite to each other, and yet, in the course of providence, they are sometimes intermixed, like the morning and evening twilights, neither day nor night,

Answer 3

Isaiah 45:7 contrasts opposites. Darkness is the opposite of light. However, evil is not the opposite of peace. The Hebrew word translated "peace" is shâlôm,2 which has many meanings, mostly related to the well being of individuals. Râ‛âh,3 the Hebrew word translated "evil" in the KJV often refers to adversity or calamity.

God Bless You

Answer 4

The Lord God created Satan, the most beautiful angel, who rebelled in Heaven and was cast down. Satan is the father of all lies and a murderer from the beginning.
What does it mean; Don't give what is holy to dogs?
It sounds as if you are militantly opposed to the Kingdom of Heaven. If you really want to know the answers to your questions, then humble yourself and with truth and sincerity ask God to whom you owe every good thing you have ever possessed.
Think about this: If God made you and you where not made evil, how would you account for evil things done by you?

Answer 5

My Bible says: I form the light and create the darkness, I bring prosperity and create disaster; I the Lord do all this things. It clearly points to mistranslation and that is why fundamentalists quote a verse instead of reading an entire chapter. I would say seeing the whole picture puts things into perspective and quoting verses is equivalent to eavesdropping and hearing snippets of a conversation. You are bound to come to the strangest of conclusions! Are you not?

Answer 6

Yes it is.

Which is why we muslims dont believe satan is necessarily evil...he just tempts man at the right time and he does it with pride. If you equate fickle mindedness with evil, then yes he might be considered evil.

Also, good and bad are perceptions.

Reality is a perception. Check my previous questions about this one.

What we perceive as good and bad are actually nothing more than perceptions and not really a representation of what is True.

What is true is that God creates all of these, yes...even what we consider bad.

Thats where faith comes in.

Granted it is a very interesting subject.

Answer 7

Tough question, but a really good one.

The question somewhat asks the question, "Can God do evil things?"

And the answer to that is simply "No". God is not evil.

Moreover, creating in created beings the capacity to do evil in and of itself is not evil. Adam and Eve were created perfect but with the capacity to sin (commit evil, if you will).

Evil and Sin (by definition) are that which is in opposition to good. God is the ultimate source of good. He is purity and light.

The Bible also refers to Satan as having fell, implying that he, like Adam and Eve, was once "not fallen".

When God introduced what the Bible calls this "mystery of iniquity", He chose to allow evil in the world. This passage, and the one in your question leave no room to doubt that God is indeed the initiating source of evil.

However, there is something good about the presence of Evil in this world. Perhaps it is that having evil in this world provides mankind the ability to choose between God and Evil. It gives us the opportunity to reject our sinful nature and affirm our devotion to Him. Or perhaps it is something beyond our comprehension.

God is good, and while evil is bad, the introduction of Evil (somehow) is good, because God gave it.

Clear as mud, right?

Good Luck.

Answer 8

It is in contrast to peace, calamity as in war. It is not moral evil.

James 1:13 says, 'And remember, no one who wants to do wrong should ever say, "God is tempting me." God is never tempted to do wrong, and he never tempts anyone else either.'

A mistranslation is an error in translation. I looked up the original and it is correct as translated. I really dislike admiting that...
In context, it is a contrast Light/ Darkness :: Peace/ Evil ... so by implication the evil is calamity in war.

Answer 9

You are dealing with two different issues. The creation of evil and the committing of sin.

God never committed sin....he can enact evil, doom, death, dismay, etc...at will. He just has not sinned.

God also has hated.

"Malachi 1:2-4 (King James Version)
2I have loved you, saith the LORD. Yet ye say, Wherein hast thou loved us? Was not Esau Jacob's brother? saith the LORD: yet I loved Jacob,

3And I hated Esau, and laid his mountains and his heritage waste for the dragons of the wilderness.

4Whereas Edom saith, We are impoverished, but we will return and build the desolate places; thus saith the LORD of hosts, They shall build, but I will throw down; and they shall call them, The border of wickedness, and, The people against whom the LORD hath indignation for ever."

Evil can mean harmful, injurious, an act against someone, it could even be in a game. God rained down fire on Sodom and Gomorrah...I would call that evil...but it was not sinful. It was justified. God can do evil without it being against the law of God.

Answer 10

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