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To: Forest Keeper; AlbionGirl; Kolokotronis; annalex
He allows things to happen that are evil. AG said that " ... God created all, good and bad and everything in between."

What I am hearing here is that evil, like good, is a creature of God? Wow!

God created sharks. Sometimes, sharks eat people. We say that's "bad". This is very different from any suggestion that God proactively inserts an evil demon or something into someone to make him do something terrible

Hmmmm, Job comes to mind...and Judges 9:23, and 1 Sam 16:14, and 1 Sam 16:15, and 1 Sam 16:16, and 1 Sam 18:10, and 1 Sam 19:19, and 1 Kings 22:23, and 2 Chron 18:22. (Notice how they are all from the Old testament, by coincidence I am sure).


4,520 posted on 04/10/2006 4:24:39 PM PDT by kosta50 (Eastern Orthodoxy is pure Christianity)
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To: kosta50; AlbionGirl; Kolokotronis; annalex
FK: "This is very different from any suggestion that God proactively inserts an evil demon or something into someone to make him do something terrible."

Hmmmm, Job comes to mind...and Judges 9:23, and 1 Sam 16:14, and 1 Sam 16:15, and 1 Sam 16:16, and 1 Sam 18:10, and 1 Sam 19:19, and 1 Kings 22:23, and 2 Chron 18:22. (Notice how they are all from the Old testament, by coincidence I am sure).

I read all of your verses. Only the last two, which are the same, are even arguably relevant to this topic. But even those fail. First of all, Ahab was warned about the false prophecies of his prophets by Micaiah, therefore nothing terrible (sinful) happened because of any false prophecies. Secondly, I would equate this scene to God simply levying His justice. Elsewhere in the Bible, God ordered Joshua to go and lay waste to the countryside. God didn't use a demon, but what's the difference? If you even believe that Joshua did any of those things, do you say that God ordered Joshua to sin? Of course not! It is the same here. I don't think any of your examples are evidence that God proactively caused anyone to sin.

4,606 posted on 04/11/2006 6:40:41 PM PDT by Forest Keeper
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