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To: Jean Chauvin; RnMomof7; CCWoody, Jerry_M; OrthodoxPresbyterian; the_doc; Wrigley; xzins...
Your #1026, after quoting a number of fine Bible passages: (I'm tempted to let FTD know that THE Bible (KJV) declares that God does indeed create evil *grin*)

These passages do indeed declare God's omnipotence, foreknowledge, etc., but they do not say that God creates evil or predetermines all our choices.

There are some passages you could quote, such as: "... shall there be evil in a city and the Lord hath not done it?" (Amos 3:6b) that are a bit more of a challenge, but those you quoted aren't the ones.

1,030 posted on 03/01/2002 5:35:20 PM PST by White Mountain
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To: White Mountain
"These passages do indeed declare God's omnipotence, foreknowledge, etc., but they do not say that God creates evil or predetermines all our choices."

"I am the Lord, and there is none else, there is no God beside 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 beside 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. Drop down, ye heavens, from above, and let the skies pour down righteousness: let the earth open and let them bring forth salvation, and let righteousness spring up together; I the Lord have created it. Woe unto him that striveth with his Maker! Let the postsherd strive with the postserds of the earth. Shall the clay say to him that foashioneth it, What makest thou? or thy work, He hath no hands? Woe unto him that saith unto his father, What begettest thou? or to the woman, What hast thou brought forth? Thus saith the Lord, the Holy One of Israel, and his Maker, Ask me of things to come concerning my sons, and concerning the work of my hands command ye me. I have made the earth, and created man upon it: I, even, my hands have stretched out the heavens, and oall their host have I commanded. I have raised him up in righteousness, and I will direct all his ways: he shall build my city, and he shall let go my captives, not for price nor reward, saith the Lord of hosts." -Isaiah 45:5-13 (emphasis mine)

Right there in black and white, in the King's English!

Jean

1,032 posted on 03/01/2002 6:26:05 PM PST by Jean Chauvin
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