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Morten:
Because God is love, and know what love is, does that mean he have experienced evil? Like us, if we don't know what evil is, then we neither know what love is.

Jennie:
As for me... that one will take some thinking on!

Kat:

Hi Morten,

Ray went into this a little bit at the '07 Nashville conference 'Who and What is Jesus? & Who is His Father?'  Here is a excerpt from that transcript.

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Gen 3:22  “And the Lord God said, now the man is become as one of Us, to know good and evil;”

When there was only God, no creation, no star systems, just God.  What did He know about evil?  What evil? 

Now He creates man and He said, “now he can become like one of Us, to know…”  and of course you can say good, because God is good.  But evil?  How did God know evil?  What in the universe... well there wasn’t a universe, well what in God then was there that was evil?  How did He know evil?  He created evil, but where did it come from?  Where did the idea come from?  When it was only God, who is righteous and good and Holy and just and all of that, where was the evil?  God was evil? 

What I’m saying is He knew evil, how did He know evil?  Now man understands evil.  They are going to be banished from the garden and they die.  This is an evil that has come upon them, because they disobeyed.  Which is another evil you see.  But God said “We understand good and evil,”( Gen. 3: 22)  Before there was a creation, God understood evil.  From where?  From what? 

[A question to Ray]  His reply; He’s just thinking ahead that He is going to create something called evil?  But where would that concept come from?  If He’s thinking ahead, He’s going to create a Son, who was going to live righteous and good.  But that comes from Him, that is what He is.  God is love, God is spirit, He’s invisible, this is what He is.  God is not evil.  How did He know evil?  I have some ideas about that.  What I’m saying is you can all see that it was there.  We’re going to go a little deeper then these other people go. 

God is all wise, all knowing, all powerful and He does not change.  Did He ever?  That’s what He is now, but did He have to go through something to become what He is.  Hmm, wow maybe there is more glory in that then you could ever conceive of.  Well why doesn’t He change?  ’What are you trying to say Ray, are you trying to insinuate that He’s learning?’  No, He knows it all.  When you reach perfection, you don’t change.  Once you reach total perfection, you do not change! Jesus Christ is the express, very absolute, image of God.  Guess what?  He doesn’t change.  You don’t change when you are perfect.  Total perfection!  Well you think about that.
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mercy, peace and love
Kat

CrossoverManiac:
God has infinite knowledge.  He made all things in existence.  He knows what is right and wrong by His omniscience.

legoman:
Look at 1 Cor 13, it defines love.  God is love, so it would also define God.


One of the qualities of love is this:  Love does not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth.  (from verse 6 in the NIV).


So, how can one NOT DELIGHT IN EVIL if you don't know what evil is?

Thus the reason why God has knowledge of evil, and why He is giving us this experience of evil.  So we will know what love is and so we can be made into His image.

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