Boy, I just have to write this blog and right this wrong.
Who created evil?
After all that theological mambo-jumbo from even renown theologians, they could not answer this VERY SIMPLE QUESTION. I see all these non-biblical excuses that God is so good and perfect that He cannot create evil and so forth and just like the Five Points of Calvinism they are indeed LOGICAL but NOT BIBLICAL.
I keep on hammering this point ad nauseum in this blog. People, REALLY READ the bible with clear spectacles and not those Calvinist or Armenian colored glasses...PLEASE, PLEASE, PLEASE! Let us honor God's Word COMPLETELY and not make excuses for verses that OBVIOUSLY CONTRADICT our preconceived theological notions!!!
So for the very last time, WHO CREATED EVIL?
GOD, THE GOD OF ABRAHAM, ISAAC AND JACOB DEFINITELY DID!!!
The perfect God created evil among others. We will tell you why at the end of this blog.
Real Logic
Real Bible
Why Classical Theology cannot answer this question without contradiction or sounding ridiculous and irrational?
Classical theology is based on Hellenistic theological principles regarding the sovereignty and perfection of God and God being the First Cause, etc.
The Perfection alone of God that cannot create evil obviously contradicts the First Cause as to who created evil itself. Classical theology seems to propose that there is "another creator" apart from God who has the ability to create evil since God did not create it.
Utterly RIDICULOUS, and I pity those who are sucked into this confusing theology of the "wise" guys. That tells me that the rest of the foundation of your faith is unstable, illogical and ridiculous producing almost no faith at all.
Why did God create evil?
The simple answer is what we always teach at CrossCulture. God's goal in history is to create his own people of faith comprised of people who willingly, willfully, volitionally love God the way He loves them. This love can never be genuine unless there are substantive challenges to it. The experience of Job is the extreme but it illustrates this point quite clearly that love for God and faithfulness has to be tested to be proven.
God is an intelligent and logical God. He knows what is fake from what is true. All the fake are the goats in Matthew 25. They are those who chose the wide road in Matthew 7 instead of the narrow road that leads to life.
Hence when God created man in His image, He created a completely autonomous creature with the ability to reject Him, and God endowed man with the ability to love or hate, have faith or doubt, be faithful or disloyal, to hope or despair. That is why the three things that remain are faith, hope and love, precisely because God ordained at creation that He WILL NOT control these in man in order for the exercise thereof to be genuine. God knows all our hearts and determines judgement entirely based on the condition of our hearts and not what we ritually perform or ceremonially know. If we believe that we cannot fool the clever Satan, how much more can we fool the most intelligent person?
The great commandment is primarily about Loving God. And why, because God desires that which he no longer controls. That is why He commands us to love because that love has to come from man and not generated in any way by or from God. The ability to love was given entirely to man at the creation. The exercise therof is entirely man's responsibility and accountability and the basis for God's final judgment at both the Great White Throne judgment and the Bema judgment.
Any deviation from this viewpoint paints a different God other than the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob and must be rejected at the cost or benefit of eternity.
Who created evil?
After all that theological mambo-jumbo from even renown theologians, they could not answer this VERY SIMPLE QUESTION. I see all these non-biblical excuses that God is so good and perfect that He cannot create evil and so forth and just like the Five Points of Calvinism they are indeed LOGICAL but NOT BIBLICAL.
I keep on hammering this point ad nauseum in this blog. People, REALLY READ the bible with clear spectacles and not those Calvinist or Armenian colored glasses...PLEASE, PLEASE, PLEASE! Let us honor God's Word COMPLETELY and not make excuses for verses that OBVIOUSLY CONTRADICT our preconceived theological notions!!!
So for the very last time, WHO CREATED EVIL?
GOD, THE GOD OF ABRAHAM, ISAAC AND JACOB DEFINITELY DID!!!
The perfect God created evil among others. We will tell you why at the end of this blog.
Real Logic
- Can God create white without creating black? How then would we know the difference?
- Can God create light without creating darkness? How then would we distinguish between one and the other?
- So, will God create good if He cannot create evil? What is your logical answer?
- If God, did NOT create evil, then there must be another "creator" aside from God?
- Lets face it, a God who cannot create evil is a God who is unable to curse and a God who is unable to execute judgment or punishment because both curses and judgments are the executions of evil.
Real Bible
- Genesis 1:3-5 - God called the darkness Night. It is impossible for the creator to name a creation that He did not Himself create.
- 1 Samuel 2:6,7 - The Lord KILLS, He brings down to Sheol (the grave), He impoverishes (makes poor), He humbles.
- Isaiah 45:7 - God creates darkness, creates calamity, creates rah (evil). God even confirms that principle in this verse in HIS VERY WORDS, "I am the Lord who does ALL THESE THINGS"!
- Genesis 3:16, 17 - God creates evil consequences. Please don't color these consequences as otherwise. Just be honest and take it for what it is. If it is not good, then it is evil. God does create gray areas too but not this time.
- Exodus 4:11 - God created the deaf and the mute.
- 1 Kings 9:9 - The words for calamity and disaster come from the Hebrew rah. Verse 14 says,"The Lord did not hesitate to bring the evil upon us".The Hebrew word, rah means "evil" or "wickedness" but many versions translate this as "calamity". Excuses, excuses, excuses...
- 1 Kings 21:29 - God Himself says He will not bring rah upon Ahab. This means that the ability to bring evil comes from God Himself.
- 2 Kings 6:33 - This rah is from the Lord.
- 2 Chronicles 7:22 - " ...he brought all this rah on them"
- Jeremiah 32:23 - "You (God) brought all these rah upon them"
- Jeremiah 32:42 -"This is what the Lord says: As I have brought all this great rah on this people, so I will give them all the prosperity I have promised them."
- Jeremiah 40:2 - The Lord decreed rah upon this place.
- Jeremiah 44:27, 29 - God intended harm or rah and it will surely stand.
- Jeremiah 45:5 - God is bringing rah upon all flesh
- Daniel 9:13-14 - The words for calamity and disaster come from the Hebrew rah Verse 14 says,"The Lord did not hesitate to bring the evil upon us".
- Ezekiel 6:10 - This is worth quoting from the ESV, "And they shall know that I am the Lord. I have not said in vain that I would do this evil to them." The Hebrew word, rah means "evil" or "wickedness" but many versions other than the ESV translate this as "calamity". Excuses, excuses, excuses...
- Numerous other passages where God bringing evil and calamity is clearly implied.
The Enhanced Strong's Lexicon states the following references for the Hebrew rah
663 occurrences; AV translates as “evil” 442 times, “wickedness” 59 times, “wicked” 25 times, “mischief” 21 times, “hurt” 20 times, “bad” 13 times, “trouble” 10 times, “sore” nine times, “affliction” six times, “ill” five times, “adversity” four times, “favoured” three times, “harm” three times, “naught” three times, “noisome” twice, “grievous” twice, “sad” twice, and translated miscellaneously 34 times. 1 bad, evil. 1a bad, disagreeable, malignant. 1b bad, unpleasant, evil (giving pain, unhappiness, misery). 1c evil, displeasing. 1d bad (of its kind—land, water, etc). 1e bad (of value). 1f worse than, worst (comparison). 1g sad, unhappy. 1h evil (hurtful). 1i bad, unkind (vicious in disposition). 1j bad, evil, wicked (ethically). 1j1 in general, of persons, of thoughts. 1j2 deeds, actions. 2 evil, distress, misery, injury, calamity. 2a evil, distress, adversity. 2b evil, injury, wrong. 2c evil (ethical). 3 evil, misery, distress, injury. 3a evil, misery, distress. 3b evil, injury, wrong. 3c evil (ethical).
AV Authorized Version
Why Classical Theology cannot answer this question without contradiction or sounding ridiculous and irrational?
Classical theology is based on Hellenistic theological principles regarding the sovereignty and perfection of God and God being the First Cause, etc.
The Perfection alone of God that cannot create evil obviously contradicts the First Cause as to who created evil itself. Classical theology seems to propose that there is "another creator" apart from God who has the ability to create evil since God did not create it.
Utterly RIDICULOUS, and I pity those who are sucked into this confusing theology of the "wise" guys. That tells me that the rest of the foundation of your faith is unstable, illogical and ridiculous producing almost no faith at all.
Why did God create evil?
The simple answer is what we always teach at CrossCulture. God's goal in history is to create his own people of faith comprised of people who willingly, willfully, volitionally love God the way He loves them. This love can never be genuine unless there are substantive challenges to it. The experience of Job is the extreme but it illustrates this point quite clearly that love for God and faithfulness has to be tested to be proven.
God is an intelligent and logical God. He knows what is fake from what is true. All the fake are the goats in Matthew 25. They are those who chose the wide road in Matthew 7 instead of the narrow road that leads to life.
Hence when God created man in His image, He created a completely autonomous creature with the ability to reject Him, and God endowed man with the ability to love or hate, have faith or doubt, be faithful or disloyal, to hope or despair. That is why the three things that remain are faith, hope and love, precisely because God ordained at creation that He WILL NOT control these in man in order for the exercise thereof to be genuine. God knows all our hearts and determines judgement entirely based on the condition of our hearts and not what we ritually perform or ceremonially know. If we believe that we cannot fool the clever Satan, how much more can we fool the most intelligent person?
The great commandment is primarily about Loving God. And why, because God desires that which he no longer controls. That is why He commands us to love because that love has to come from man and not generated in any way by or from God. The ability to love was given entirely to man at the creation. The exercise therof is entirely man's responsibility and accountability and the basis for God's final judgment at both the Great White Throne judgment and the Bema judgment.
Any deviation from this viewpoint paints a different God other than the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob and must be rejected at the cost or benefit of eternity.
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