Do you believe that God creates evil, as the Bible states (Isaiah 45:7, KJV)? If you believe this, why do you worship Him?
2007-11-12 20:17:15 · 8 answers · asked by YO Y 2 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Brunella silly christian you should read your bible, god himself states he created both good and evil.
2007-11-12 20:26:02 · update #1
Of course. They worship God
2007-11-12 20:21:13 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 1⤋
The Hebrew word for "evil" also means "natural calamity or disaster." In the KJV, the fact that Hebrew words often have several different meanings wasn't considered by the translators. This is obvious from other "mistranslations." (For the record, it's nearly impossible to translate ANY foreign language completely accurately into English, but I still think the translators could have done a better job!) I don't entirely trust the KJV, to be honest.
Anyway, if God is God, then obviously He rules over both evil and good. God cannot physically do evil. It's not in His nature. I think God ALLOWS evil, He doesn't create it.
2007-11-13 04:31:41 · answer #2 · answered by The_Cricket: Thinking Pink! 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Maybe you should read an accurate translation before making claims, unless you profess to understand the word meanings and how they were different 400 years ago. An updated verse that uses today's language says this:
I form the light and create darkness, I bring prosperity and create disaster; I, the LORD, do all these things.
It is not that God creates evil it is that he brings trials to make those who believe in him stronger. God also says that he will not bring a trial greater than one can handle.
2007-11-13 04:46:02 · answer #3 · answered by mrglass08 6 · 1⤊ 1⤋
The potter has the right to use a single lump of clay to make one thing for good and another thing for evil. The clay can't say to the potter, " make me this way or that." If God wants to make some people to show his power to, and some to use to demonstrate his power, He can.
Now, I worship God because I love him. But He loved me first. If you are one of the chosen, to be a child of God, than you will love Him also. You will also understand the written word of God, it will make perfect sense. If the Word is covered, it is because you are perishing.
2007-11-13 05:11:01 · answer #4 · answered by BOC 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
The Hebrew word for "evil" in Isaiah 45:7 essentially refers to displeasure, in contrast to the word used for peace("shalom") of the same verse. The same word is used in Gen 40:7 to refer to displeasure: "And he asked Pharaoh's officers that [were] with him in the ward of his lord's house, saying, Wherefore look ye [so] sadly to day?".
2007-11-13 04:32:14 · answer #5 · answered by w2 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Good,Evil,are not created they just are.Without one,the other would not exist. There is duality in all things in nature."Link 1"
2007-11-13 04:48:39 · answer #6 · answered by Sweet Willy 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Because He knows what to do with it. And He uses it for His glory and our benefits.
Gen 50:20 But as for you, ye thought evil against me; [but] God meant it unto good, to bring to pass, as [it is] this day, to save much people alive.
2007-11-13 04:23:37 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 2⤋
Woe! The Lord is not mocked
2007-11-13 04:23:35 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 2⤋