Discussion quotes #1: Willy Mac, Déjà vu Bro. this feeling have familiarity to all of us, I lived through that present situation of yours before, growing up in a Christian circle and indoctrinated nations, it is understandable that it’s only natural that most God’s people feel as you do & don’t even believe that the fact that God does create evil is even in the Bible (it is Isa. 45:7; Gen: 2:16-17 etc.). The main problem you stuck on it is, that you fail to understand what In God’s economy what evil is and how God uses it. Evil is NOT, for example, a sin on God’s part. Evil is used to produce righteousness by God. That why even as humankind we teach our little children to not run into the street without looking left and right first, or touching a hot stove with their finger, etc… I understand your frustrations, but there is a reason for all what is at present a difficult things for you to understand, You need to understand the difference between evil and sin, Scripturally evil[ra` rah] means to crush to pieces, irrespective of any emotion. Human of course they SIN when they use evil against one another. Relation to man God does not do the act of evil nor make us sin (“let no man say when he is tempted, I am tempted of God, for God tempts no man’). Man volunteers to do sin of course with little bit outside influence. The Lord God has a plan long ago He set in divine motion a long time ago which involved creating His own workaholic adversary to do the dirty work, God do created evil, and made all man subject to all kind of moral futility b/e of a weak heart He gave to all man. When God brings His holy spirit in all of us He begins a work which He will bring to completion or reality by complete that in the end conforms all of us to God’s very spiritual image even now we all are changing into the same image from glory to glory, even as by the Spirit of the Lord. For all these reasons God takes responsibility for sin of the world and the process of saving mankind by Jesus.
The Lord God CREATED evil in Gen 2:9 to give man not only knowledge of good but to give the knowledge of evil isn’t He? “The tree of #knowledge of #good and #evil” God CREATED evil Isaiah 45:6 we know God USES evil all day long purposely. Its known to all evil has no moral bias. scripturally evil[ra` rah] means to crush to pieces, irrespective of any emotion. Human of course they SIN when they use evil against one another. God never sins when He uses evil on humankinds to humble them by it. For Man It is part of the very purpose of our existence to “experience evil in this world.” “…Unfortunately God give this to all man “It is an #EXPERIENCE OF #EVIL Elohim [God] has given to the sons of humanity #to#humble#them#by#it” (Ecc. 1:12). Dear Brother Willy name me one virtue or behavior showing high moral standards that is not the direct result of overcoming some form of evil even the Lord Jesus himself though he were a Son of God anointed with grace and truth, yet learned he obedience by the things which he suffered?
“Amos 3:6 Shall a trumpet be blown in the city, and the people not be afraid? shall there be #evil in a city, and the #Lord hath not #done #it?” This does not mean that The Lord God endorsed every instance in the world. God does not create things that do #not serve a good purpose. You need to see the sovereignty of God in all things. Without doubt the sovereignty of God is taught everywhere in the Holy Scripture. Majority Christians understand this in theory but in practice life they tend to confuse it with non-biblical fatalism. B/c of Babylon the great by her teaching for all nations have drunk of the wine of the wrath of her fornication, and the kings of the earth have committed fornication with her. God’s sovereignty is based upon Genesis 1:1, and it is based upon God’s rights as the Creator, by he’s right as a crater God owns all that He created and is therefore ultimately responsible for it. for He indeed hast created all things, and for his #pleasure they are and were created. Rev 4:11 Brother Bini. God is with you!