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Some say that the Holy Spirit came upon Billy Graham just as it did upon John the Baptist announcing the Kingdom of God is at hand.

I believe that this is the same message where Billy Graham said the following: "God is not the author of evil." This begs a question:

I am the LORD, and there is none else; there is no God besides Me. I girded thee, though thou hast not known Me,
that they may know from the rising of the sun and from the west that there is none besides Me. I am the LORD, and there is none else.
I form the light, and create darkness; I make peace, and create evil; I, the LORD, do all these things.

If Billy Graham was preaching from the Spirit, then I would like an explaination of what he meant when he said that "God is not the author of evil." I did not watch it, BTW. I rarely watch TV. I heard this quote from the radio.

If Billy Graham was preaching from the Spirit, then I would like an explaination of what he meant when he said that "God is not the author of evil." I did not watch it, BTW. I rarely watch TV. I heard this quote from the radio.

That's because you're looking at a "translation" into English. The original does not mean that. And a more current translation (i.e., the "New Kings James Version") gives the accurate meaning in the English of the original language (and it's the original that is "inspired" and not the translation).

It goes like this --


   Isaiah 45:5-7 
      
   5 I am the Lord, and there is no other; There is no 
     God besides Me. I will gird you, though you have not 
     known Me, 
      
   6 That they may know from the rising of the sun to 
     its setting That there is none besides Me. I am the 
     Lord, and there is no other; 
      
   7 I form the light and create darkness, I make peace 
     and create calamity; I, the Lord, do all these 
     things.'

Calamity is not the same as evil. Think of calamity as disaster and/or judgement. Since God is righteous -- He cannot be the author of evil. Satan is -- not God. Billy Graham is right on that issue.

Billy Graham has had along National ministry,and I have no doubt that many have heard the Gospel and responded to it through him.

I must observe however that even he now understands that many of those "confessions" of faith were not "valid",but rather induced by the circumstances...and because he had no ministry in place to follow up no one except God knows how many responded to His grace thru that ministry.

I believe if the gospel is preached it always accomplishes what God intends for it..

Rev.Graham is now a very sick old man.May God bless and keep him.