True, you didn't say he created it,
but your book does.
Isaiah 45:7
I form the light, and create darkness: I make peace, and create evil: I the Lord do all these things.
You've activated my trap card!
yeap it is written that way
Now though what does GOD choose? Is evil been created for us to see free choice and choose yes I think so, because all that was left after the cross was nad is to either believe and Choose God over Evil or not beleive and just continue in one's sinful behavior of hurting others as the religous leaders did in Christ's day here on earth HMMM!!!!!!!!!!
God does no evil, man does and God came to earth to show us to depend on God christ's Father and sent us the Holy Ghost to guide us as what guided Christ and this comes by belief, trust, Faith in the Gospel of Christ filled and all powerful in and of the cross, nowhere else or no way else. It is what it is, and by this one is changed to new life and is content in all that happens here as Paul exclaimed nothing can seperate him frpom the Love of God, nothing, and this I do believe is for all to exclaim by Christ living in oyu and through you
[h=3]Romans 3:1-27[/h]New King James Version (NKJV)
[h=3]God’s Judgment Defended[/h]3 What advantage then has the Jew, or what
is the profit of circumcision? [SUP]
2 [/SUP]Much in every way! Chiefly because to them were committed the oracles of God. [SUP]
3 [/SUP]For what if some did not believe? Will their unbelief make the faithfulness of God without effect? [SUP]
4 [/SUP]Certainly not! Indeed, let God be true but every man a liar. As it is written:
“That You may be justified in Your words,
And may overcome when You are judged.”
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5 [/SUP]But if our unrighteousness demonstrates the righteousness of God, what shall we say?
Is God unjust who inflicts wrath? (I speak as a man.) [SUP]
6 [/SUP]Certainly not! For then how will God judge the world?
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7 [/SUP]For if the truth of God has increased through my lie to His glory, why am I also still judged as a sinner? [SUP]
8 [/SUP]And
why not
say, “Let us do evil that good may come”?—as we are slanderously reported and as some affirm that we say. Their condemnation is just.
[h=3]All Have Sinned[/h][SUP]
9 [/SUP]What then? Are we better
than they? Not at all. For we have previously charged both Jews and Greeks that they are all under sin.
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10 [/SUP]As it is written:
“There is none righteous, no, not one;
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11 [/SUP]There is none who understands;
There is none who seeks after God.
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12 [/SUP]They have all turned aside;
They have together become unprofitable;
There is none who does good, no, not one.”
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13 [/SUP]“Their throat
is an open tomb;
With their tongues they have practiced deceit”;
“The poison of asps
is under their lips”;
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14 [/SUP]“Whose mouth
is full of cursing and bitterness.”
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15 [/SUP]“Their feet
are swift to shed blood;
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16 [/SUP]Destruction and misery
are in their ways;
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17 [/SUP]And the way of peace they have not known.”
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18 [/SUP]“There is no fear of God before their eyes.”
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19 [/SUP]Now we know that whatever the law says, it says to those who are under the law, that every mouth may be stopped, and all the world may become guilty before God. [SUP]
20 [/SUP]Therefore by the deeds of the law no flesh will be justified in His sight, for by the law
is the knowledge of sin.
[h=3]God’s Righteousness Through Faith[/h][SUP]
21 [/SUP]But now the righteousness of God apart from the law is revealed, being witnessed by the Law and the Prophets, [SUP]
22 [/SUP]even the righteousness of God, through faith in Jesus Christ, to all and on all who believe. For there is no difference; [SUP]
23 [/SUP]for all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God, [SUP]
24 [/SUP]being justified freely by His grace through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus, [SUP]
25 [/SUP]whom God set forth
as a propitiation by His blood, through faith, to demonstrate His righteousness, because in His forbearance God had passed over the sins that were previously committed, [SUP]
26 [/SUP]to demonstrate at the present time His righteousness, that He might be just and the justifier of the one who has faith in Jesus.
[h=3]Boasting Excluded[/h][SUP]
27 [/SUP]Where
is boasting then? It is excluded. By what law? Of works? No, but by the law of faith