Evil

[Tellyontellyon]

"I form the light, and create darkness: I make peace, and create evil: I the Lord do all these things."
~ God (KJV)


Why would God deliberately harm us?

 

[Clare73]

"I form the light, and create darkness: I make peace, and create evil: I the Lord do all these things."
~ God (KJV)


Why would God deliberately harm us?

Evil as in disaster, as in the death of all the firstborn in Egypt, or the destruction of Pharaoh's army in the Red Sea.

God harms in judgment on sin.

 

[BobRyan]

"I form the light, and create darkness: I make peace, and create evil: I the Lord do all these things."
~ God (KJV)


Why would God deliberately harm us?

Is 45:
The Lord, the God of Israel, who calls you by your name.
4 For the sake of Jacob My servant,
And Israel My chosen one,
I have also called you by your name;
I have given you a title of honor
Though you have not known Me.
5 I am the Lord, and there is no one else;
There is no God except Me.
I will arm you, though you have not known Me,
6 So that people may know from the rising to the setting of the sun
That there is no one besides Me.
I am the Lord, and there is no one else,
7 The One forming light and creating darkness,
Causing well-being and creating disaster;
I am the Lord who does all these things.

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God takes credit for what He "allows"


And He brings disaster on evil.

 

[timothyu]

The world is a matter of cause and effect. If we pursue self interest someone else is inevitably bound to get hurt. If we love all as self then we are incapable of pursuing that self interest. God showed us how to get along in a cause and effect creation.

 

[Veni]

Did God harm the Messiah & the prophets?

 

[timothyu]

Did God harm the Messiah & the prophets?

Indirectly as His will tends to tick off self-serving mankind and they retaliate. But that is our fault, not His.

 

[Hawkins]

"I form the light, and create darkness: I make peace, and create evil: I the Lord do all these things."
~ God (KJV)


Why would God deliberately harm us?

Ancient Hebrews often did writings and thus with developed concepts in perspective of God's absolute sovereignty. "God created evil" could mean that God didn't stop evil from being present. God allows evil to be present on earth for a reason. That is, to eradicate evil once and for all lawfully by means of the Final Judgment.

"God hardened Pharaoh's heart", "God incited David for taking the census", "God created evil" are all written in the same format from the perspective of God's absolute sovereignty.

when written in normal sense:
Exodus 8:15
But when Pharaoh saw that there was respite, he hardened his heart, and hearkened not unto them; as the LORD had said.

Exodus 8:32
And Pharaoh hardened his heart at this time also, neither would he let the people go.

1 Chronicles 21:1
Satan stood up against Israel, and incited David to count the people of Israel.