RE: Why did god create evil?
November 21, 2011 at 9:14 pm
(This post was last modified: November 21, 2011 at 10:25 pm by Anymouse.)
(October 24, 2011 at 6:58 am)lucent Wrote: God didn't create evil. If you check the bible, there is only one place that God is creating anything, which is at the beginning of Genesis. When God finished creation, it was "very good".
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Well this is a very late response to a very early post to this thread (way back on page one), but it is amazing the number of Christians one runs into that claim "God did not create evil." So once again I quote from the Bible (which is the best defence for a Wiccan or an athiest):
Isaiah 45:7 I form the light, and create darkness: I make peace, and create evil: I the LORD do all these things. (KJV)
That seems pretty clear. Even for those who claim the Bible is allegory or not literal, that sentence is pretty hard to take any other way.
James, on the Left side of Nebraska.
Edit note: I see after I posted this someone else posted the same thing, though far more completely than me. Oh well, it bears repeating. Often. Because the verse (regardless of version) cannot be adequately refuted other than by claiming it means something else than what it is printed there.
"Be ye not lost amongst Precept of Order." - Book of Uterus, 1:5, "Principia Discordia, or How I Found Goddess and What I Did to Her When I Found Her."
