[DoorGunner]

Maybe you should study the nature of the Reformed view of double predestination a little closer.

Maybe.

I was relying on my increasingly fallible memory. I thought (that some) Calvinists here hold that this verse:

Isaiah 45:7
I form the light, and create darkness: I make peace, and create evil: I the LORD do all these things.

Teaches that God is the creator of moral evil. It looks like I either misunderstood, or misremembered.

Sorry about that.

DG

[Frumanchu]

Isaiah 45:7 I form the light, and create darkness: I make peace, and create evil: I the LORD do all these things.

Teaches that God is the creator of moral evil. It looks like I either misunderstood, or misremembered. Sorry about that.

Misunderstood. The verse does not say that God creates moral evil. Look at the form: He forms the light and creates the darkness (opposite of light). He makes peace and creates evil. What is the opposite of peace? War/violence/etc. The OT is full of examples of God bringing about war amongst people.

Agreed?

[HarleyD]

A better translation is:

Isaiah 45:7 I form the light and create darkness, I bring prosperity and create disaster; I, the LORD , do all these things.