Why does the Church..?

Question

Say God did not create evil, when he himself claims that he did in Isaiah 45:7, Lamentations 3.38, and Amos 3:6. I am finding this Bible Story so confusing....

Answer 1

Then quit reading the bible and look for other sources to teach you about the Living Presence. Investigate the truth of where the bible came from. It will shock you and embarrass you that you ever thought it to be THE SOURCE. Good luck

Answer 2

He didn't create EVIL he allowed Man to make his own decisions in how to live their life. Man became EVIL by disobeying the laws that he set when created life, they disobeyed again the TEN Commandments and the laws set today.
An angel disobeyed God and created an evil plain HELL. He allowed evil to try and influence on the world today.

You can't take scriptures from the Old testament and put them into the new.
The New testament explains all. The Bible has been rewritten to manipulate the truth about the past and present.
Your best of living a way of life, that you feel is right

Answer 3

The assertion in this passage is so bold that Marcion, an early Christian heretic, used this text to prove that the God of the Old Testament was a different being from the God of the New. Thus the nature of this hard saying is simply this: Is God the author of evil?

Numerous texts flatly declare that God is not, and could not be, the author of evil. For example, Deut. 32:4 declares that "his works are perfect, and all his ways are just. [He is] a faithful God who does no wrong, upright and just is he." Similarly, Psalm 5:4 notes, "You are not a God who takes pleasure in evil." If we read the Bible in its total canonical setting, it would seem that God is without evil or any pretense of evil.

The text in question refers to physical evil. As does Lament. 3:38, it contrasts prosperity and adversity. Thus the good is physical goodness and happiness, while the evil is physical distress, misfortune, calamity and natural evil, such as storms, earthquakes and other disasters.

Even though much of the physical evil often comes through the hand of wicked men and women, ultimately God permits it. Thus, according to the Hebrew way of speaking, which ignores secondary causation in a way Western thought would never do, whatever God permits may be directly attributed to him, often without noting that secondary and sinful parties were the immediate causes of the disaster.

The evil spoken of in this text and similar passages (such as Jeremiah 18:11; Lament. 3:38 and Amos 3:6) refers to natural evil and not moral evil. Natural evil is seen in a volcanic eruption, plague, earthquake and destructive fire. It is God who must allow (and that is the proper term) these calamities to come. But, one could ask, isn't a God who allows natural disasters thereby morally evil?

To pose the question in this manner is to ask for the origins of evil. Christianity has more than answered the problem of the presence of evil (for that is the whole message of the cross) and the problem of the outcome of evil (for Christ's resurrection demonstrates that God can beat out even the last enemy and greatest evil, death itself). But Christianity's most difficult question is the origin of evil. Why did God ever allow "that stuff" in the first place?

Augustine taught that evil is not a substance. It is, as it were, a byproduct of our freedom, and especially of our sin. The effects of that sin did not fall solely on the world of humans. Its debilitating effects hit the whole natural world as well. Nevertheless, it is not as if God can do nothing or that he is just as surprised as we are by natural evil. Any disaster must fall within the sovereign will of God, even though God is not the sponsor or author of that evil. When we attempt to harmonize these statements we begin to invade the realms of divine mystery.
What we can be sure of, however, is the fact that God is never, ever, the originator and author of evil. It would be contrary to his whole nature and being as consistently revealed in Scripture.

Answer 4

He does not say he created evil in any of these verses. He can cause calamity to occur to His enemies as is His right.

Satan is the cause of evil. Humans and angels make the free choice every day for good or evil.

The problem churches do not address is why God allows evil? The answer is God is not in charge of the earth. He has allowed Satan control. (1John 5:19; John 14:30; Eph. 2:2; 2Cor. 4:4)

The reason Satan is allowed time is the challenge to God's authority back in the Garden of Eden. By violating their one law, God's right to rule His creations was challenged. Would anyone serve God out of love for Him or just what they could get out of Him? He has allowed time for this to be settled. 6,000 years of men trying to rule men has proved a disaster.

This is something the churches will not tell you. It is a toss up to whether they do not know or just want power they use on politics.

Answer 5

(Isaiah 45:7) Forming light and creating darkness, making peace and creating calamity, I, Jehovah, am doing all these things.
The Meaning of Jehovah’s Bringing Evil. Rightly, Jehovah brought evil or calamity upon Adam for his disobedience. Hence, in the Scriptures, Jehovah is referred to as the Creator of evil or calamity. (Isa 45:7; compare KJ.) His enforcing of the penalty for sin, namely, death, has proved to be an evil, or a calamity, for mankind. So, then, evil is not always synonymous with wrongdoing. Examples of evils or calamities created by Jehovah are the Flood of Noah’s day and the Ten Plagues visited upon Egypt. But these evils were not wrongs. Rather, the rightful administration of justice against wrongdoers was involved in both cases. However, at times Jehovah, in his mercy, has refrained from bringing the intended calamity or evil in execution of his righteous judgment because of the repentance on the part of those concerned. (Jon 3:10) Additionally, in having a warning given, Jehovah has undeservedly provided opportunities for the practicers of bad to change their course and thus to keep living.

(Lamentations 3:38) From the mouth of the Most High bad things and what is good do not go forth.

Jehovah was pronouncing his anger toward the nation because they weren't listening to him. He warned them what would happen and it wasn't going to be good.
In chapter 3, Jeremiah pours out his feelings, transferring them to the figure of the nation as an “able-bodied man.” In chapter 4, Jeremiah continues his lament. In the fifth chapter, the inhabitants of Jerusalem are pictured as speaking. The expressions of acknowledgment of sin, the hope and confidence in Jehovah, and the desire to turn to the right way, as portrayed throughout, were not the actual feelings of the majority of the people. However, there was a remnant like Jeremiah. So the view expressed in the book of Lamentations is a true evaluation of Jerusalem’s situation as God saw 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?

Jehovah’s message of judgment against Israel (Amos 3:1–6:14)
Israel has been specially favored by God; this results in special accountability
When Jehovah reveals his purpose to his servants, they prophesy; thus Amos warns that Jehovah will hold an accounting for false religious practices at Bethel and defrauding by luxury lovers in Samaria
Israel has not returned to Jehovah despite punishments already meted out; now warned, “Get ready to meet your God”

Even while warning of woes to come, Jehovah urges: “Search for me, and keep living,” “Hate what is bad, and love what is good”

Answer 6

God created everything out of nothing at all, but he didn't specifically create evil.

Evil evolved by it's own nefarious will, typically out of pride and jealousy.

The personification of evil is Satan, the devil.

God's wrath is loosed against evil, and when that happens, the results are typically good ... but it seems evil to those who have experienced the divine chastisement.

That's what is being written about in the scriptures you cite.

Answer 7

All that comes from God is good (this includes death and destruction; if you'll notice when every time He's wreaking havoc it is on sinners and the unrighteous). God is perfect goodness so anything less is evil. And guess what, thanks to Adam and Eve's decision to take the serpent's word over God's mankind became cursed. Which is why Jesus is so important; Jesus was sent to suffer and die to abolish death and all sin past, present and future so that those who believe and repent will have everlasting life.

Answer 8

Well, considering he made Lucifer and Lucifer then became evil in the attempt to save us from ourselves......Well, evil is subjective really. What one person's evil might be honored to another.

God created Lucifer, Lucifer has a differing opinion on how humans should be and gets into a fight with God and loses.

Thus, God does not make perfect things.

Have you ever wondered that, for the sake of arguement the angel war was true, that everybody on earth are actually the fallen angels that fought alongside Lucifer and lost. Earth is really Hell.....interesting concept, yes?

Answer 9

The Old Testament is confusing, it was written LONG before the New Testament.

You need some guidance when studying either text to understand the time it was written and also the style it was written in.

Peace!

Answer 10

Because if he created evil; that would mean he isn't all loving.

On the other hand, if he DIDN'T create evil, it would mean he didn't create everything.

o noes