(November 8, 2017 at 9:38 am)Harry Nevis Wrote:
(November 7, 2017 at 5:05 pm)SteveII Wrote: Your statement is just a contradiction. He does not know because he has seen you do it, he knows because he knows what you would freely choose give circumstances x y and z. Important in this knowledge is he knows true counterfactuals--what you would have done if x, y or z were different.Isaiah 45:7.
God could not admit creating evil because by definition it is the deprivation of good. How can someone create a negative? You are barking up the wrong tree. Yes, he is responsible for the possibility of sin, but you are just complaining about the definition of free will.
Exactly. So we are the ones that get to define it.
That verse is not talking about moral evil. It is clearly talking about punishment or calamity. You do realize that it was not originally written in English and you can look up the Hebrew word to understand the meaning don't you? In fact almost all translations use punishment or calamity. http://biblehub.com/isaiah/45-7.htm -- Look at the left side of the page. It has all the translations of that verse listed one after another.
