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I agree with you but think there is a little more to the story.It is a good question and my best answer came from the Book of Job.
Satan came before God and He inquired what was he up to...Satan says like a roaring lion searching to and fro seeking whom I may devour.
God asked him...have considered my servant Job.
Satan Yes, but you have a hedge of protection around him and I can't touch him.
God took away that hedge and told him to do whatever he wanted but don't take his life.
So after Satan attacked Job....Job went into prayer and in the end Job never once cursed God and gave God Glory for He is a Sovereign God and for his good pleasure He created all things and it is His to give and to take away.
So what was the purpose of all this? His Word says our faith will tested by fire....Paul said we rejoice in trials and tribulations for they are the working of our patience (which I believe this to be connected with our faith).
Brother, what one creates does not have to be a part of them...So how do you reconcile this verse with "in Him is no darkness at all" and "God cannot lie". They also are in the Bible.
I'm already responsible because I sin like every human does. And I'm already a believer.That is a fair reading, but Romans says all things work together for good to those that love God and are called according to purpose.
The Bible also says that the believers are destined to rule with the Lord. So then although you might not feel responsible for the mess due to man's rebellion, the day will come when you are the one who is responsible. Seems like now is a very good time to prepare for that day.
So if you are responsible surely the Lord is because apart from Him you can do nothing.I'm already responsible because I sin like every human does. And I'm already a believer.
There have been many different threads which have asked this question about Corona virus. Many of the posters assert that God is the creator of all things (agreed) that He is omnipotent and omniscient (agreed) and that given these criteria coronavirus could not have taken place without His allowing it (agreed). He foresaw it would happen (omniscient), He created it (creator of all things) and He had the power to prevent it (omnipotent). I agree with all of this.
Others, also quoting scriptures point out that God is love (agreed), He is a merciful and good God (agreed), in Him is no darkness (agreed), His thoughts for us are good and not evil (agreed). How do you reconcile these two?
This is commonly known as the problem of evil and is a logical argument used by atheists to deny that God exists. Their argument is that the definition of God is that He is the creator of all things (agreed). Evil exists (agreed). Therefore God created evil (disagree and will explain). There are many ways that Christians try to squirm out of this and they are not scriptural. They make Satan (Lucifer was also created by God) into some kind of powerful being who has the ability to create evil and sin even though he is a created being by God (this does not change the fact that if evil exists, it was part of the creation that God created). For example the Bible says God cannot lie. How then could he create a universe in which there are lies and liars?
Therefore I wanted to open this thread up to Christians so that we could examine the scriptures and understand "How could God allow this to happen?"
Did you not read the rest of my postings?God never does evil. That's radically unbiblical. God is just and holy. He cannot do what is against his nature.
Thank you for quoting these, but if there is evil in the city, like this Covid 19 in NYC, yes, the Lord hath done it, but at the same timeIsa 45:5 I am the LORD, and there is none else, there is no God beside me: I girded thee, though thou hast not known me:
Isa 45:6 That they may know from the rising of the sun, and from the west, that there is none beside me. I am the LORD, and there is none else.
Isa 45:7 I form the light, and create darkness: I make peace, and create evil: I the LORD do all these things.
Amo 3:5 Can a bird fall in a snare upon the earth, where no gin is for him? shall one take up a snare from the earth, and have taken nothing at all?
Amo 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?
Thank you for quoting these, but if there is evil in the city, like this Covid 19 in NYC, yes, the Lord hath done it, but at the same time
3 This is good and acceptable in the sight of God our Saviour; 4 who would have all men to be saved, and come to the knowledge of the truth.
Which Peter also echo's
9 The Lord is not slow in keeping his promise, as some understand slowness. Instead he is patient with you, not wanting anyone to perish, but everyone to come to repentance.
You said you were responsible, I am saying if you are responsible then so is Jesus, who is Lord of all.Are you saying God makes me sin? Not according to scripture.
Not refuting anything, only trying to give a full picture. Yes, this Covid 19 came from God, but not that we would perish but that all might be saved.OK, but I don't see how those verses refute what I'm saying. Maybe I'm missing something?
God did not CREATE evil---from your Isaiah verse.I form the light, and create darkness: I make peace, and create evil: I the LORD do all these things.
Yep he creates evil and good.
So what is the process by which calamity is created?Isaiah 45:7
7 I form the light and create darkness,
I make peace and create calamity;
I, the Lord, do all these things.’
It is without His Light that darkness naturally exists.
Simple. man did not walk in His light--so man can be blamed by his decision at first of creating calamity. He created man who he called good--so man, not God, really created calamity.So what is the process by which calamity is created?
God isn't responsible for sin, according to scripture.You said you were responsible, I am saying if you are responsible then so is Jesus, who is Lord of all.
"I am he that prepared light, and formed darkness; who make peace, and create evil; I am the Lord God, that does all these things." Isaiah 45:7 (Brenton LXX En)
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