re: Those who trust in the Lord will renew their strength;

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according to this biblical quote, god is the creator of evil.

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That's exactly what the words say. Now, perhaps it's a bad translation into the English language, but, your point stands.

40 Then the Lord said to Job,

2 “Do you still want to argue with the Almighty?
You are God’s critic, but do you have the answers?”

Job Responds to the Lord
3 Then Job replied to the Lord,

4 “I am nothing—how could I ever find the answers?
I will cover my mouth with my hand.
5 I have said too much already.
I have nothing more to say.”

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Learn from Job. How can a man question the ways of The Creator?

2 Kings 6:28-29
"Then he asked her, 'What's the matter?' She answered, 'This woman said to me, "Give up your son so we may eat him today, and tomorrow we'll eat my son." So we cooked my son and ate him. The next day I said to her, 'Give up your son so we may eat him,' but she had hidden him.'"

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You are the billionth person to misinterpret the meaning of this scripture.

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What’s to misinterpret? It clearly states it right there.

Explain to me in detail with citations from credible sources how that passage could be interpreted any differently. It literally states “god created evil”. Ergo my premise stands. Everything he creates serves his purpose. Ergo, evil serves his purpose. The only logical conclusion to that would be that evil is a necessity and those who do it are in fact doing “gods will”.

But I’m open to some other option here provided it’s logical and has evidence to back it up. Please provide.


I’m simply asking questions that arise to me based off that line of scripture.

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I read it as i create peace and adversity in your life (in regards to Israel) the adversity is meant to propel you to holiness and to draw near when your actions have seperated you from my peace..

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I mean, I could see that. Not a bad explanation. However, we must “experience” something to know what it is. Therefore anyone doing evil is still following gods will because he needs someone to “show us what evil is”. Unless you adhere to the idea that we are born knowing good and evil in which case, there is no logical point for it to have ever been created. We could have just been born knowing what it is and never having to experience it for ourselves.


Obviously I am not a religious person. I can not say with certainty that there is no god however. It’s what they call and “unfalsifiable claim”. It doesn’t mean it’s true, it just means you can’t prove it wrong. Just like you can’t prove with certainty that ghost don’t exist. I do find religion fascinating though.

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I’m not here to knock anyone’s religion. You are free to worship whatever god/gods you want or to have none at all. But I can’t help but say, think about this statement long and hard and the actual implications behind it. If your belief is that god is infallible, and according to this biblical quote, god is the creator of evil. Doesn’t that make evil a necessity and therefore not “wrong”? I mean, if god “created it” it obviously serves a “purpose” so those who do “evil” are still, in fact, doing “god’s will”.

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We have to have the ability to commit evil in order to find salvation. If your next question is “why?” then I would just say that we can’t expect to have the same level of understanding of the universe as God.

I don’t think your objection is as earth-shattering or original as you think it is. Close to 100% of people who have ever read the Bible, have went down that same line of thought.

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Doesn’t that make evil a necessity and therefore not “wrong”? I mean, if god “created it” it obviously serves a “purpose” so those who do “evil” are still, in fact, doing “god’s will”.

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It's only necessary to show the mercies of God! By being or doing evil isn't doing Gods will in the sense that you are going too get an attaboy. God created vessels to good works and other vessels to evil.

Read Romans 9

I'm afraid that you are wrong. Muslims think they worship the same God but they do not.
1John 2:23
22Who is a liar but he that denieth that Jesus is the Christ? He is antichrist, that denieth the Father and the Son.

23Whosoever denieth the Son, the same hath not the Father: (but) he that acknowledgeth the Son hath the Father also.

Same goes for the 'jews' as well.