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Thank you FK. I will follow suit and withdraw, so as to allow this thread to cease. Apparently, some see no point in continuing to rehash the same topics over and over, as annalex aptly demonstrated a few posts ago. You are more than welcome to continue via private freepmail.

I read all of your verses

All those verse contained the words "evil spirit of the LORD," which was in response to your suggestion that there is no such thing (I agree, but the Old testament seems to use it, especially and exclusively in the Historical Books).

The rest of your post is a rationalization. In one place you say "God ordered Joshua to go and lay waste to the countryside...do you say that God ordered Joshua to sin?" Well, only you can read something so clear and say it's not what the Bible suggests. In fact, in the OT, God orders slaughters of thousands of people. But, those much better versed in the OT than I am tell me they find "rivers of love" and even Christ in all that. Curious.

Let me say this: I don't ever think that God would make or cause anyone to sin. I just don't see it so clearly in the OT.

Thank you FK. I will follow suit and withdraw, so as to allow this thread to cease. ... You are more than welcome to continue via private freepmail.

OK, Kosta, fair enough. Sorry for the additional posting I've done, I just got to this one. :)