For those who contend that Jehovah created the woes of this planet, you don't really believe that?

Question

Do you? Jehovah God did know such thing. Jehovah told Adam and Eve what the consequences of sin would be, and so they are. If you tell your child not to go into the street without looking both ways and your child does so and is hit by a car, did you make it happen? Could you have prevented it? Most probably, by physical restraint, but that wouldn't be very rewarding or fulfilling an existence for either of you. Jehovah is outside of space and time. He holds the universe in the palm of His hand. Picture a rectangular acquarium in your living room. There is a goldfish there, who swims back and forth across the tank. Now, peering into the tank from this perspective you can see all that is happening at the same time. You can see the seaweed at the opposite end of the tank, and the coral skeleton that the fish will collide with if he doesn't change his course. You can see up, down, side to side, all at the same time, while the fish knows only what is in front of him.

That is how Jehovah view's the earth. When Adam and Eve sinned, they changed the composition of existence, of creation, until such time as it could be righted again. Jehovah peered across the expanse of time and saw what would happen as a result of their sin and corruption of flesh and creation. The ground was cursed, and natural disasters were to follow. And as sin was passed down again and again over time, and man grew further and further away from perfection, so was disease, corruption, deforminty, mutation, violence, and pestilence handed down. Imperfection has begotten imperfection, and it has multiplied, doubled, tripled, and quadrupled over multiple generations since the birth of man. Jehovah God didn't make it happen. He simply saw that it would, warned us, and as a loving God gave us an escape route. It's up to us to take it.

God did not create Satan, and He is going to destroy Him. It is taking as long as it is because the Scriptures plainly tell us that God desires no man to perish, but that all receive everlasting life. The longer he waits, the more time WE have to repent of our sins and to come to know Him. His prolonging destruction is a loving act, not a slow one. This very topic is discussed thoroughly in the Bible, word for word.

Answer 1

It is only from the perspective of the ungodly who await punishment that Jehovah can be said to perform "evil" or "calamity".

(NWT Isaiah 45:6,7) I am Jehovah, and there is no one else. Forming light and creating darkness, making peace and creating calamity, I, Jehovah, am doing all these things.

(KJV Isaiah 45:6,7) I am the LORD, and there is none else. I form the light, and create darkness: I make peace, and create evil: I the LORD do all these things.


Yet Jehovah is the very standard of righteousness and goodness, and Jehovah is motivated purely by love. Everything Jehovah does is good, and Jehovah actively looks for opportunities to demonstrate mercy and loving-kindness.

(Psalm 100:5) Jehovah is good; His loving-kindness is to time indefinite

(Psalm 145:9) Jehovah is good to all, And his mercies are over all his works.

(Jeremiah 33:11) Laud Jehovah of armies, for Jehovah is good; for to time indefinite is his loving-kindness!

(James 1:13) For with evil things God cannot be tried nor does he himself try anyone.

(1 John 4:8) He that does not love has not come to know God, because God is love.

(1 John 4:16,20) God is love... If anyone makes the statement: “I love God,” and yet is hating his brother, he is a liar. For he who does not love his brother, whom he has seen, cannot be loving God, whom he has not seen.

(Exodus 34:6,7) Jehovah, Jehovah, a God merciful and gracious, slow to anger and abundant in loving-kindness and truth, preserving loving-kindness for thousands, pardoning error and transgression and sin


Jehovah is the benevolent Almighty Father of angels and humans. When an angel or human alienates himself from Jehovah, truly 'the defect is his own' rather than God's.

(Deuteronomy 32:5) They have acted ruinously on their own part; They are not his children, the defect is their own


Here are a few Scriptural thoughts to consider:

(Psalm 14:1) The senseless one has said in his heart: “There is no Jehovah

(Romans 16:17) Keep your eye on those who cause divisions and occasions for stumbling contrary to the teaching that you have learned, and avoid them.

(2 Corinthians 4:4-6) The god of this system of things has blinded the minds of the unbelievers

(Philippians 2:14-15) In among a crooked and twisted generation, among whom you are shining as illuminators in the world

(1 Timothy 6:3-5) If any man teaches other doctrine and does not assent to healthful words, those of our Lord Jesus Christ, nor to the teaching that accords with godly devotion, he is puffed up with pride, not understanding anything, but being mentally diseased over questionings and debates about words. From these things spring envy, strife, abusive speeches, wicked suspicions, violent disputes about trifles on the part of men corrupted in mind and despoiled of the truth

Answer 2

confident. (Col a million:15, playstation 89:27, Jer 31:9, Rev 3:14, Heb a million:6, ect...) Scripture: Colossians a million:sixteen "all issues have been created with the help of* him" The Greek be conscious *dia* consistently denotes "the channel an act". often it represents an agent being utilized with the help of yet another, in spite of the incontrovertible fact that it could additionally mean the channel from which an act originates. The context, besides as a results of fact something of the scriptures, instruct that in the time of Colossians a million:sixteen the be conscious is used to precise that Jesus is used as an agent with the help of the God and Father of Jesus in creation.

Answer 3

God has given us the ability to make our own choices and if we walk in the ways of the Lord, we will face persecution and obstacles, yet we will ultimately enter the kingdom of heaven. When we let out flesh overtake us and lead us, things are bound to happen that would have happened differently, had we walked in the ways of the Lord. One thing we need to remember is that the Lord will always turn things around for the good. God Bless You!!!

Answer 4

In Deut. 27:12; When you have crossed the Jordan, These tribes shall stand on Mount Gerizim to bless the people: Simeon,Levi,Judah,Issachar,Joseph and Benjamin. And these tribes shall stand on Mount Ebal to pronounce curses: Reuben,Gad,Asher,Zebulun,Dan,and Naphtali.

In Deut. 5:9&10; You shall not bow down to them or worship them ; for I, the Lord your God, am a jealous God, punishing the children for the sin of the fathers to the third and fourth generation of those who hate me, But showing love to a thousand generations of those who love me and keep my commandments.

in the cursing on the mountain verses ,you may well attain that Jehovah asked the first tribes to bless his people and the second tribe to sound off the curses that would happen if they disobeyed Him. That He wasn't really cursing them but reminding them what would happen if they disobeyed Him. But in the punishing it does say that God will indeed punish. That leads me to believe that Jehovah God(the great "I Am"), does in fact curse and that the scriptures that one of the posts before me said, that He created curses.

If you believe in 2 Timothy 3:16; All scripture is given by inspiration of God Jehovah, and is profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for correction, for instruction in righteouness,
then I don't understand anyone not believing the scriptures that says that God created cursing & darkness.

The fact that, thru Moses, God told His people that they were in fact going to disobey Him and worship the idols of the people of the land in which he was giving them, is to me not just a warning but the truth that He knew from before He created man. Satan became His adversary before he made man. So, God knew that man would be defiled by Satan and He also knew that He would make a way out for man to not have to die for his sins.

Answer 5

Yeah, I agree. God allowed the possibility of humans to rebel, and rebel they did and do.
Certainly, God could have made humans automated robots that always did exactly what they should, but that removes freedom from humans. Without the freedom to sin, we also do not have the freedom to seek God.

Answer 6

I think mainline Christians will put the blame on someone else's shoulders just as a matter of practice. It's not an exception, it's the rule. Just don't worry about it. Let the other Christians sort it out in their little world.

Answer 7

true true, this is on subject that gets me mad when tragedy strikes preachers love to say Oh its Gods will or God needed an angel or something crazy like that But God doesn't cause bad things to happen to people.

James 1:13

Answer 8

Sorry, but I don't care for the "fish tank" analogy. Most fish owners don't put piranha in the tank with their goldfish just for giggles, and when their fish start to show signs of fin rot, good owners at least try to treat them with medication instead of sitting back and watching them disintegrate, whispering, "I won't interfere. Free will. Free will."

Answer 9

God created evil.

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

(Amos 3:6) - "Shall a trumpet be blown in the city, and the people not be afraid? shall there be evil in a city, and the LORD hath not done it?"

Answer 10

I've always just explained as we are a snow globe on YAHWEH's desk, not litterally but easy way to explain it.

But like yours too.