The Lord Creates Evil

I'll have to agree with Sipsey.

Tricky Passages:

1. We first have to consider context:
We should study God's character through all of scripture before jumping to conclusions from 1 verse.

2. We then have to consider simple things like basic semantics:
A very broad term like "evil" can often refer to entirely different categories of things.... therefore, it means what it means within proper semantic context; it doesn't mean whatever you happen to want it to mean.

3. If still drawing an odd conclusion, we might defer to some of the great Christian scholars:
Great Christian scholars, for millennia, have tackled and discussed tricky passages... we didn't just discover something new.

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Author: Elvis Welber
The Lord Creates Evil
Isaiah 45: 7 I form the light and create darkness, I make peace and create evil. I the Lord do all these things.

It is clearly noticeable in the text above that God is the creator of evil. The word evil comes from the Hebrew ra'râ'âh and applies both to moral evil and to calamities. Nothing that exists in the world came by chance, everything was determined and decreed by God to happen. The LORD has made all things for his own ends, even the wicked, for the day of evil. Proverbs 16: 4.
The Bible clearly shows several passages where God exercises active and sovereign control over ungodly deeds committed by men, let us look at some: 2 Samuel 12.11-12 Thus saith the LORD; Behold, I will raise up evil out of thine own house, and I will take thy wives and I will give it to your neighbor, who will lie down with your wives before this sun.

12 For thou didst it in secret, but I will do this thing before all Israel, and before the sun. We see here the punishment of God over David for the sin of murder and adultery that he had committed. A son of David would lie down to bed with his women. In verse 12 God says: I will do this thing. What this means? God would sovereignly control Absalom to do such a sinful act as a punishment upon David. The fact that God hardens the heart of the wicked to sin, does not mean that God is in favor of this attitude. God condemns all moral evil in His holy law. But the Bible is clear in showing that God is the one who creates and controls all evil. Evil exists because God has directly and actively decreed its existence. God sovereignly controls all creatures that there are so many just as ungodly.

Deuteronomy 2:30 And Sihon the king of Heshbon would not suffer us to pass through him, because the LORD thy God hardened his spirit, and hardened his heart to give it into thine hand, as it is this day.
But I will harden Pharaoh's heart, and will multiply my signs and my wonders in the land of Egypt. Ex. 7: 3.

For what? What Israel sought did not reach him; but the elect overtook him, and the rest were hardened.

8 As it is written, God gave them a spirit of deep sleep, eyes not to see, and ears to hear, to this day. Romans 11: 7,8.

I would have to agree with you on this if I took these examples at face value. God did not create evil. God blessed a certain way to live and respond and he cursed the other. Scriptures are very clear on that. Evil is a result of choosing the wrong path.
God has designed every thing including moral and spiritual living.
As with the story of Cain the grace of the Lord is shown, if Cain choose to do that which was accepted it would be well with him, but he choose not to. Sin lay at the door was Gods warning, Cain later killed his brother.
Pharoh had many chances to heed God's warning, choosing not to was causing a Harding of pride in pharoh. In the end the cost of this pride was answered.
Israels blindness is actually a blessing. For there rejection of Messiah they have been paying for over 2000 yrs as a fulfillment and testament of scriptures. Yet at the end you'll see that the blindness is lifted as they looked on him that was pierced. Bringing redemption to the jews,.
God knowing the end from the beginning is just and merciful in all ways, and his ways are higher than ours.
God cannot look upon sin nor be apart of it, he is holy. Evil is the perpetuation of sin.

Did God create satan?

Did God create you?

Through the Scriptures, mankind is told to “choose.” God could have made His creations to only choose good and to love everyone, but then, that wouldn’t be real choices, would it? Many want to outguess God and say how they would do things a little differently. We have a reliable body of work that tells us a good deal about ourselves and God, but “no one knows the depths and riches of what it means to be a Holy God.”

I suggest we pray and study more, and question God and His motives less.

Not in our little human minds, probably even a blade of grass doesn’t grow without His approval.

Yes prayer and study are great tools for spiritual growth, and i think it is ok to sit and reason with Him.

Author: Elvis Welber
The Lord Creates Evil
Isaiah 45: 7 I form the light and create darkness, I make peace and create evil. I the Lord do all these things.

It is clearly noticeable in the text above that God is the creator of evil. The word evil comes from the Hebrew ra'râ'âh and applies both to moral evil and to calamities. Nothing that exists in the world came by chance, everything was determined and decreed by God to happen. The LORD has made all things for his own ends, even the wicked, for the day of evil. Proverbs 16: 4.
The Bible clearly shows several passages where God exercises active and sovereign control over ungodly deeds committed by men, let us look at some: 2 Samuel 12.11-12 Thus saith the LORD; Behold, I will raise up evil out of thine own house, and I will take thy wives and I will give it to your neighbor, who will lie down with your wives before this sun.

12 For thou didst it in secret, but I will do this thing before all Israel, and before the sun. We see here the punishment of God over David for the sin of murder and adultery that he had committed. A son of David would lie down to bed with his women. In verse 12 God says: I will do this thing. What this means? God would sovereignly control Absalom to do such a sinful act as a punishment upon David. The fact that God hardens the heart of the wicked to sin, does not mean that God is in favor of this attitude. God condemns all moral evil in His holy law. But the Bible is clear in showing that God is the one who creates and controls all evil. Evil exists because God has directly and actively decreed its existence. God sovereignly controls all creatures that there are so many just as ungodly.

Deuteronomy 2:30 And Sihon the king of Heshbon would not suffer us to pass through him, because the LORD thy God hardened his spirit, and hardened his heart to give it into thine hand, as it is this day.
But I will harden Pharaoh's heart, and will multiply my signs and my wonders in the land of Egypt. Ex. 7: 3.

For what? What Israel sought did not reach him; but the elect overtook him, and the rest were hardened.

8 As it is written, God gave them a spirit of deep sleep, eyes not to see, and ears to hear, to this day. Romans 11: 7,8.

It is clearly noticeable in the text above that God is the creator of evil.

God created Lucifer.....he fell by pride and through sin became the Devil........and there is a difference