If God created everything and evil is a thing, did God create evil? YES, GOD CREATED EVIL!
For those of you who are aware of Augustine's privation argument, it is cute but does not stand up to Holy Scripture.
Isaiah 45:5-9 I am the LORD, and there is none else, there is no God beside me: I girded thee, though thou hast not known me: 6 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. 7 I form the light, and create darkness: I make peace, and CREATE EVIL: I the LORD do all these things. 8 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. 9 Woe unto him that striveth with his Maker! Let the potsherd strive with the potsherds of the earth. Shall the clay say to him that fashioneth it, What makest thou? or thy work, He hath no hands?
DEATH, LIFE, EVIL, DESTRUCTION, HEALTH, PROSPERITY, BLESSINGS, AFFLICTIONS, GOOD and ILL FROM GOD
1.Exodus 4:11 "And the Lord said to him, "Who has made man’s mouth? Or who makes him dumb or deaf, or seeing or blind? Is it not I, the Lord?"
**Who does Scripture say makes one dumb, deaf, blind...?
2.Deut 8:18 But remember the LORD your God, for it is he who gives you the ability to produce wealth, and so confirms his covenant, which he swore to your forefathers, as it is today.
**Who is it that enables one to produce wealth or not?
3.Deut28:63 Just as it pleased the LORD to make you prosper and increase in number, so it will please him to ruin and destroy you. You will be uprooted from the land you are entering to possess.
**Does not the Lord state that He will be pleased to destroy Israel? The context is conditional upon breaking covenant.
4.Deut 32:39 'Now see that I, even I, am He, And there is no God besides Me; I kill and I make alive; I wound and I heal; Nor is there any who can deliver from My hand.
***Life and death are in whose hands? One's health is in whose hands?
5.Judges 9:23 Then God sent an EVIL SPIRIT between Abimelech and the men of Shechem;and the men of Shechem dealt treacherously with Abimelech:
***Where is this evil spirit coming from?
6.1 Samuel 2:6-10 "The LORD kills and makes alive; He brings down to the grave and brings up. 7 The LORD makes poor and makes rich; He brings low and lifts up. 8 He raises the poor from the dust And lifts the beggar from the ash heap, To set them among princes And make them inherit the throne of glory. "For the pillars of the earth are the Lord's, And He has set the world upon them. 9 He will guard the feet of His saints, But the wicked shall be silent in darkness. "For by strength no man shall prevail. 10 The adversaries of the LORD shall be broken in pieces; From heaven He will thunder against them. The LORD will judge the ends of the earth. "He will give strength to His king, And exalt the horn of His anointed."
***Who is in charge of life and death; one's poverty or prosperity; one being low or lifted up
7.1 Samuel 16:14 Now the Spirit of the LORD departed from Saul, and an EVIL SPIRIT from the LORD terrorized him.
***Where is this evil spirit coming from?
8.1 Samuel 16:15 Saul's servants then said to him, "Behold now, an EVIL SPIRIT from God is terrorizing you.
***Where is this evil spirit coming from?
9.1 Samuel 16:16 "Let our lord now command your servants who are before you. Let them seek a man who is a skillful player on the harp; and it shall come about when the EVIL SPIRIT from God is on you, that he shall play the harp with his hand, and you will be well."
***Where is this evil spirit coming from?
10.1 Samuel 16:23 So it came about whenever the EVIL SPIRIT from God came to Saul, David would take the harp and play it with his hand; and Saul would be refreshed and be well, and the EVIL SPIRIT would depart from him.
***Where is this evil spirit coming from?
11.2 Samuel 17:14 And Absalom and all the men of Israel said, The counsel of Hushai the Archite is better than the counsel of Ahithophel. For the LORD had appointed to defeat the good counsel of Ahithophel, to the intent that the LORD might bring EVIL upon Absalom.
***Where is this evil spirit coming from? WHO IS BRINGING EVIL UPON ABSALOM????
12.1 Samuel 18:10 [ Saul Turns against David ] Now it came about on the next day that an EVIL SPIRIT from God came mightily upon Saul, and he raved in the midst of the house, while David was playing the harp with his hand, as usual; and a spear was in Saul's hand.
***Where is this evil spirit coming from?
13.1 Samuel 19:9 Now there was an EVIL SPIRIT from the LORD on Saul as he was sitting in his house with his spear in his hand, and David was playing the harp with his hand.
***Where is this evil spirit coming from?
14.2 Samuel 12 10Now therefore the sword shall never depart from your house, because you have despised me and have taken the wife of Uriah the Hittite to be your wife.' 11Thus says the LORD, 'Behold, I will raise up EVIL against you out of your own house. And I will take your wives before your eyes and give them to your neighbor, and he shall lie with your wives in the sight of this sun. 12For you did it secretly, but I will do this thing before all Israel and before the sun.'"
***Did not 4 of David's kids die??? One at birth, one at suicide, one via his half-brother murdering him and the 4th killed in battle. Did not Ammon RAPE his sister and yet who is saying that He is going to do this??
15.1 Kings 17:20-22 0 And he cried unto the Lord, and said, O Lord my God, hast thou also brought evil upon the widow with whom I sojourn, by slaying her son? 21 And he stretched himself upon the child three times, and cried unto the Lord, and said, O Lord my God, I pray thee, let this child's soul come into him again. 22 And the Lord heard the voice of Elijah; and the soul of the child came into him again, and he revived.
***Who does the Scripture say is bringing EVIL????
16.1 Kings 22:23 "Now therefore, behold, the LORD has put a deceiving spirit in the mouth of all these your prophets; and the LORD has proclaimed disaster against you."
***Where is this evil spirit coming from?
17.Job 1:12-22 The LORD said to Satan, "Very well, then, everything he has is in your hands, but on the man himself do not lay a finger." Then Satan went out from the presence of the LORD. 13 One day when Job's sons and daughters were feasting and drinking wine at the oldest brother's house, 14 a messenger came to Job and said, "The oxen were plowing and the donkeys were grazing nearby, 15 and the Sabeans attacked and carried them off. They put the servants to the sword, and I am the only one who has escaped to tell you!" 16 While he was still speaking, another messenger came and said, "The fire of God fell from the sky and burned up the sheep and the servants, and I am the only one who has escaped to tell you!" 17 While he was still speaking, another messenger came and said, "The Chaldeans formed three raiding parties and swept down on your camels and carried them off. They put the servants to the sword, and I am the only one who has escaped to tell you!" 18 While he was still speaking, yet another messenger came and said, "Your sons and daughters were feasting and drinking wine at the oldest brother's house, 19 when suddenly a mighty wind swept in from the desert and struck the four corners of the house. It collapsed on them and they are dead, and I am the only one who has escaped to tell you!" 20 At this, Job got up and tore his robe and shaved his head. Then he fell to the ground in worship 21 and said: “Naked I came from my mother’s womb, and naked I will depart. The LORD gave and the LORD has taken away; may the name of the LORD be praised.” 22 In all this, Job did not sin by charging God with wrongdoing.
***Is it not God who gives a person all he/she has; wealth, wisdom, looks...? and is not the Scripture saying that it is God who takes them away?According to verse 22 was it sinful for Job to say that God takes away?
Job 2:7-10 7So Satan went out from the presence of the LORD and struck Job with loathsome sores from the sole of his foot to the crown of his head. 8And he took a piece of broken pottery with which to scrape himself while he sat in the ashes.
9Then his wife said to him, "Do you still hold fast your integrity? Curse God and die." 10But he said to her, "You speak as one of the foolish women would speak. Shall we receive good from God, and shall we not receive EVIL?" In all this Job did not sin with his lips.
***Where does Job say EVIL comes from???
18.Job 42:10-11 And the LORD restored the fortunes of Job, when he had prayed for his friends. And the LORD gave Job twice as much as he had before. 11Then came to him all his brothers and sisters and all who had known him before, and ate bread with him in his house. And they showed him sympathy and comforted him for all the EVIL that the LORD had brought upon him. And each of them gave him a piece of money and a ring of gold.
***Who do Job's relatives say brought the EVIL upon him?
19.Psalms 78:49 He cast upon them the fierceness of his anger, wrath, and indignation, and trouble, by sending EVIL angels among them.
***Where is this evil spirit coming from?
Psalms 90:2-3 2 Before the mountains were brought forth,or ever you had formed the earth and the world,from everlasting to everlasting you are God.3You return man to dust and say, "Return, O children of man!"
***Who turns man to dust?
20.Proverbs 16:4 The LORD hath made all things for himself: yea, even the wicked for the day of EVIL.
***who makes the wicked for the day of EVIL?
21.Eccl. 7:13-14 See the work of God, For who is able to make straight that which He made crooked? 14 In a day of prosperity be in gladness, And in a day of EVIL consider. Also this over-against that hath God made, To the intent that man doth not find anything after him.
***According to this verse who makes the EVIL day?
22.Isaiah 45:5-9 I am the LORD, and there is none else, there is no God beside me: I girded thee, though thou hast not known me: 6 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. 7 I form the light, and create darkness: I make peace, and create EVIL: I the LORD do all these things. 8 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. 9 Woe unto him that striveth with his Maker! Let the potsherd strive with the potsherds of the earth. Shall the clay say to him that fashioneth it, What makest thou? or thy work, He hath no hands?
***According to this verse, WHO CREATES EVIL???
23.Isaiah 54:16 "See, it is I who created the blacksmith who fans the coals into flame and forges a weapon fit for its work. And it is I who have created the destroyer to work havoc;
***According to this verse, WHO CREATES THE DESTOYER TO WORK HAVOC???
24.Jeremiah 18:11 Now therefore go to, speak to the men of Judah, and to the inhabitants of Jerusalem, saying, Thus saith the LORD; Behold, I frame EVIL against you, and devise a device against you: return ye now every one from his EVIL way, and make your ways and your doings good.
***WHO IS FRAMING EVIL AGAINST A PERSON?
24A. Lam. 3:37-38 Who has spoken and it came to pass, unless the Lord has commanded it? 38 Is it not from the mouth of the Most High that good and bad come?
***At whose command does a person's speech come? Where does good and BAD come?
25.Amos 3:6 Shall a trumpet be blown in the city, and the people not be afraid? shall there be EVIL in a city, and the LORD hath not done it?
***Who is the ultimate cause behind EVIL like NEW YORK 9/11????
26.Micah 2:1-3 Woe to them that devise iniquity, and work EVIL upon their beds! when the morning is light, they practice it, because it is in the power of their hand. 2 And they covet fields, and take them by violence; and houses, and take them away: so they oppress a man and his house, even a man and his heritage. 3Therefore thus saith the LORD; Behold, against this family do I devise an EVIL, from which ye shall not remove your necks; neither shall ye go haughtily: for this time is EVIL.
**Who is devising evil against this family?
27.Acts 2:23 This man was handed over to you by God's set purpose and foreknowledge; and you, with the help of wicked men, put him to death by nailing him to the cross.
****Who purposed the most EVIL CRIME ever committed on earth in which the sinless son of God, Jesus was murdered at the hands of wicked men who put him to death by nailing him to a cross???
28.Acts 4:27-28 Indeed Herod and Pontius Pilate met together with the Gentiles and the people of Israel in this city to conspire against your holy servant Jesus, whom you anointed.28They did what your power and will had decided beforehand should happen.
***Who does the Scripture say decided beforehand to empower Herod, Pontius Pilate, Gentiles and people of Israel to kill Jesus?
Isaiah 45:5-9 I am the LORD, and there is none else, there is no God beside me: I girded thee, though thou hast not known me: 6 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. 7 I form the light, and create darkness: I make peace, and CREATE EVIL: I the LORD do all these things. 8 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. 9 Woe unto him that striveth with his Maker! Let the potsherd strive with the potsherds of the earth. Shall the clay say to him that fashioneth it, What makest thou? or thy work, He hath no hands?
DEATH, LIFE, EVIL, DESTRUCTION, HEALTH, PROSPERITY, BLESSINGS, AFFLICTIONS, GOOD and ILL FROM GOD
1.Exodus 4:11 "And the Lord said to him, "Who has made man’s mouth? Or who makes him dumb or deaf, or seeing or blind? Is it not I, the Lord?"
**Who does Scripture say makes one dumb, deaf, blind...?
2.Deut 8:18 But remember the LORD your God, for it is he who gives you the ability to produce wealth, and so confirms his covenant, which he swore to your forefathers, as it is today.
**Who is it that enables one to produce wealth or not?
3.Deut28:63 Just as it pleased the LORD to make you prosper and increase in number, so it will please him to ruin and destroy you. You will be uprooted from the land you are entering to possess.
**Does not the Lord state that He will be pleased to destroy Israel? The context is conditional upon breaking covenant.
4.Deut 32:39 'Now see that I, even I, am He, And there is no God besides Me; I kill and I make alive; I wound and I heal; Nor is there any who can deliver from My hand.
***Life and death are in whose hands? One's health is in whose hands?
5.Judges 9:23 Then God sent an EVIL SPIRIT between Abimelech and the men of Shechem;and the men of Shechem dealt treacherously with Abimelech:
***Where is this evil spirit coming from?
6.1 Samuel 2:6-10 "The LORD kills and makes alive; He brings down to the grave and brings up. 7 The LORD makes poor and makes rich; He brings low and lifts up. 8 He raises the poor from the dust And lifts the beggar from the ash heap, To set them among princes And make them inherit the throne of glory. "For the pillars of the earth are the Lord's, And He has set the world upon them. 9 He will guard the feet of His saints, But the wicked shall be silent in darkness. "For by strength no man shall prevail. 10 The adversaries of the LORD shall be broken in pieces; From heaven He will thunder against them. The LORD will judge the ends of the earth. "He will give strength to His king, And exalt the horn of His anointed."
***Who is in charge of life and death; one's poverty or prosperity; one being low or lifted up
7.1 Samuel 16:14 Now the Spirit of the LORD departed from Saul, and an EVIL SPIRIT from the LORD terrorized him.
***Where is this evil spirit coming from?
8.1 Samuel 16:15 Saul's servants then said to him, "Behold now, an EVIL SPIRIT from God is terrorizing you.
***Where is this evil spirit coming from?
9.1 Samuel 16:16 "Let our lord now command your servants who are before you. Let them seek a man who is a skillful player on the harp; and it shall come about when the EVIL SPIRIT from God is on you, that he shall play the harp with his hand, and you will be well."
***Where is this evil spirit coming from?
10.1 Samuel 16:23 So it came about whenever the EVIL SPIRIT from God came to Saul, David would take the harp and play it with his hand; and Saul would be refreshed and be well, and the EVIL SPIRIT would depart from him.
***Where is this evil spirit coming from?
11.2 Samuel 17:14 And Absalom and all the men of Israel said, The counsel of Hushai the Archite is better than the counsel of Ahithophel. For the LORD had appointed to defeat the good counsel of Ahithophel, to the intent that the LORD might bring EVIL upon Absalom.
***Where is this evil spirit coming from? WHO IS BRINGING EVIL UPON ABSALOM????
12.1 Samuel 18:10 [ Saul Turns against David ] Now it came about on the next day that an EVIL SPIRIT from God came mightily upon Saul, and he raved in the midst of the house, while David was playing the harp with his hand, as usual; and a spear was in Saul's hand.
***Where is this evil spirit coming from?
13.1 Samuel 19:9 Now there was an EVIL SPIRIT from the LORD on Saul as he was sitting in his house with his spear in his hand, and David was playing the harp with his hand.
***Where is this evil spirit coming from?
14.2 Samuel 12 10Now therefore the sword shall never depart from your house, because you have despised me and have taken the wife of Uriah the Hittite to be your wife.' 11Thus says the LORD, 'Behold, I will raise up EVIL against you out of your own house. And I will take your wives before your eyes and give them to your neighbor, and he shall lie with your wives in the sight of this sun. 12For you did it secretly, but I will do this thing before all Israel and before the sun.'"
***Did not 4 of David's kids die??? One at birth, one at suicide, one via his half-brother murdering him and the 4th killed in battle. Did not Ammon RAPE his sister and yet who is saying that He is going to do this??
15.1 Kings 17:20-22 0 And he cried unto the Lord, and said, O Lord my God, hast thou also brought evil upon the widow with whom I sojourn, by slaying her son? 21 And he stretched himself upon the child three times, and cried unto the Lord, and said, O Lord my God, I pray thee, let this child's soul come into him again. 22 And the Lord heard the voice of Elijah; and the soul of the child came into him again, and he revived.
***Who does the Scripture say is bringing EVIL????
16.1 Kings 22:23 "Now therefore, behold, the LORD has put a deceiving spirit in the mouth of all these your prophets; and the LORD has proclaimed disaster against you."
***Where is this evil spirit coming from?
17.Job 1:12-22 The LORD said to Satan, "Very well, then, everything he has is in your hands, but on the man himself do not lay a finger." Then Satan went out from the presence of the LORD. 13 One day when Job's sons and daughters were feasting and drinking wine at the oldest brother's house, 14 a messenger came to Job and said, "The oxen were plowing and the donkeys were grazing nearby, 15 and the Sabeans attacked and carried them off. They put the servants to the sword, and I am the only one who has escaped to tell you!" 16 While he was still speaking, another messenger came and said, "The fire of God fell from the sky and burned up the sheep and the servants, and I am the only one who has escaped to tell you!" 17 While he was still speaking, another messenger came and said, "The Chaldeans formed three raiding parties and swept down on your camels and carried them off. They put the servants to the sword, and I am the only one who has escaped to tell you!" 18 While he was still speaking, yet another messenger came and said, "Your sons and daughters were feasting and drinking wine at the oldest brother's house, 19 when suddenly a mighty wind swept in from the desert and struck the four corners of the house. It collapsed on them and they are dead, and I am the only one who has escaped to tell you!" 20 At this, Job got up and tore his robe and shaved his head. Then he fell to the ground in worship 21 and said: “Naked I came from my mother’s womb, and naked I will depart. The LORD gave and the LORD has taken away; may the name of the LORD be praised.” 22 In all this, Job did not sin by charging God with wrongdoing.
***Is it not God who gives a person all he/she has; wealth, wisdom, looks...? and is not the Scripture saying that it is God who takes them away?According to verse 22 was it sinful for Job to say that God takes away?
Job 2:7-10 7So Satan went out from the presence of the LORD and struck Job with loathsome sores from the sole of his foot to the crown of his head. 8And he took a piece of broken pottery with which to scrape himself while he sat in the ashes.
9Then his wife said to him, "Do you still hold fast your integrity? Curse God and die." 10But he said to her, "You speak as one of the foolish women would speak. Shall we receive good from God, and shall we not receive EVIL?" In all this Job did not sin with his lips.
***Where does Job say EVIL comes from???
18.Job 42:10-11 And the LORD restored the fortunes of Job, when he had prayed for his friends. And the LORD gave Job twice as much as he had before. 11Then came to him all his brothers and sisters and all who had known him before, and ate bread with him in his house. And they showed him sympathy and comforted him for all the EVIL that the LORD had brought upon him. And each of them gave him a piece of money and a ring of gold.
***Who do Job's relatives say brought the EVIL upon him?
19.Psalms 78:49 He cast upon them the fierceness of his anger, wrath, and indignation, and trouble, by sending EVIL angels among them.
***Where is this evil spirit coming from?
Psalms 90:2-3 2 Before the mountains were brought forth,or ever you had formed the earth and the world,from everlasting to everlasting you are God.3You return man to dust and say, "Return, O children of man!"
***Who turns man to dust?
20.Proverbs 16:4 The LORD hath made all things for himself: yea, even the wicked for the day of EVIL.
***who makes the wicked for the day of EVIL?
21.Eccl. 7:13-14 See the work of God, For who is able to make straight that which He made crooked? 14 In a day of prosperity be in gladness, And in a day of EVIL consider. Also this over-against that hath God made, To the intent that man doth not find anything after him.
***According to this verse who makes the EVIL day?
22.Isaiah 45:5-9 I am the LORD, and there is none else, there is no God beside me: I girded thee, though thou hast not known me: 6 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. 7 I form the light, and create darkness: I make peace, and create EVIL: I the LORD do all these things. 8 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. 9 Woe unto him that striveth with his Maker! Let the potsherd strive with the potsherds of the earth. Shall the clay say to him that fashioneth it, What makest thou? or thy work, He hath no hands?
***According to this verse, WHO CREATES EVIL???
23.Isaiah 54:16 "See, it is I who created the blacksmith who fans the coals into flame and forges a weapon fit for its work. And it is I who have created the destroyer to work havoc;
***According to this verse, WHO CREATES THE DESTOYER TO WORK HAVOC???
24.Jeremiah 18:11 Now therefore go to, speak to the men of Judah, and to the inhabitants of Jerusalem, saying, Thus saith the LORD; Behold, I frame EVIL against you, and devise a device against you: return ye now every one from his EVIL way, and make your ways and your doings good.
***WHO IS FRAMING EVIL AGAINST A PERSON?
24A. Lam. 3:37-38 Who has spoken and it came to pass, unless the Lord has commanded it? 38 Is it not from the mouth of the Most High that good and bad come?
***At whose command does a person's speech come? Where does good and BAD come?
25.Amos 3:6 Shall a trumpet be blown in the city, and the people not be afraid? shall there be EVIL in a city, and the LORD hath not done it?
***Who is the ultimate cause behind EVIL like NEW YORK 9/11????
26.Micah 2:1-3 Woe to them that devise iniquity, and work EVIL upon their beds! when the morning is light, they practice it, because it is in the power of their hand. 2 And they covet fields, and take them by violence; and houses, and take them away: so they oppress a man and his house, even a man and his heritage. 3Therefore thus saith the LORD; Behold, against this family do I devise an EVIL, from which ye shall not remove your necks; neither shall ye go haughtily: for this time is EVIL.
**Who is devising evil against this family?
27.Acts 2:23 This man was handed over to you by God's set purpose and foreknowledge; and you, with the help of wicked men, put him to death by nailing him to the cross.
****Who purposed the most EVIL CRIME ever committed on earth in which the sinless son of God, Jesus was murdered at the hands of wicked men who put him to death by nailing him to a cross???
28.Acts 4:27-28 Indeed Herod and Pontius Pilate met together with the Gentiles and the people of Israel in this city to conspire against your holy servant Jesus, whom you anointed.28They did what your power and will had decided beforehand should happen.
***Who does the Scripture say decided beforehand to empower Herod, Pontius Pilate, Gentiles and people of Israel to kill Jesus?
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