Posted on 12/18/2005 4:18:30 PM PST by kevnmoon
God created free will...evil created itself.
God created evil and carried its consequences on His very own shoulders through Christ, furthering His Kingdom into Empire, empirics and share with us mortal beings. It's not God but Trinity.
Those refusing to admit that are in a special league if uerberEvils, or, rather, they are fools who want to be hurt by evil so as in a ploy to blame God and take His power.
It's not going to work because Christ forgave and resurected, the empirics validated, the salvation made possible, the erasure of evil a real opportunity.
Evil is the greatest opportunity ever for good:
1. One is freeer than he were free when safe when one gives himself the greatest latitudes in fighting evil. There is no greater freedom and daring than in bravely exploring and fighting evil. Even the smallest of child does that and tries while getting aborted.
2. Evil self-destructs ultimately because evil relies on good for its own subsistence, on constriction of latitudes for vindication, which it cannot do and can only self-constrict and selfhate in the process. Hell is a very voluntary thing, a choice indeed, and not a punishment from God, though those with conflict of interests would like to abolish these high laws inconveniencing them. Thus there is a parallel between wishful thinking and the treacherous constricting heart that has chosen hell and which wants to project and accuse others of punishing them.
Actually he did create all things. The laws of nature and science demand opposing ends. You have good and evil, light and dark. GOD is sovereign over all and controls the boundaries of all his creation but evil is as much a part of the creation as light & dark. But it was satans choice of freewill that manifested evil. It was there up till his rebellion and it was his choice to utilize it.
Free will of which evil is an unfortunate by-product is part of GOD's creation. But the knowledge of good and evil on earth was not known {as it was in the heavens} until the fall of man in the Garden of Eden.
Why such a plain and simple text? Why not one that allows equivocation, muffing, fumbling, and thoughts of wiser professors?
exactly
Can I have some of what you've been smoking?
ding ding ding....we have a winner Hugh, tell em what he's won !
Deuteronomy 32:4 He is the Rock, his works are perfect, and all his ways are just. A faithful God who does no wrong, upright and just is he.
evil is the absence of God
Anyone who tells you He is the author of evil is misreading the hebrew or greek.
To put a finer point on it, it is not of the nature of perfection to create imperfection. However, it is in His will to create "calamity".
pleasure to have spoken with you
Merry Christmas
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