We here at bibletruths.com believe that God causes all things, correct? Even the evil things- but God does so using other channels. God controls Satan, God sends strong delusions, God sends lying spirits, etc. But in the end it is all CAUSED by God. But I got into a debate with someone and they gave me some scriptures that I admit stumped me a little bit. Please read the following and tell me what you guys think.
God is NOT the source of every evil, read Jeremiah :Jer. 7:30
For the sons of Judah have done that which is evil in My sight,” declares the Lord, “they have set their detestable things in the house which is called by My name, to defile it. 31 They have built the high places of Topheth, which is in the valley of the son of Hinnom, to burn their sons and their daughters in the fire, which I did not command, and it did not come into My mind (DOESN'T SOUND LIKE HE PLANNED THIS OUT)
Jer. 19:‘Hear the word of the Lord, O kings of Judah and inhabitants of Jerusalem: thus says the Lord of hosts, the God of Israel, “Behold I am about to bring a calamity(this is how God creates evil, as a corrective against man's evil) upon this place, at which the ears of everyone that hears of it will tingle. 4 Because they have forsaken Me and have made this an alien place and have burned sacrifices in it to other gods, that neither they nor their forefathers nor the kings of Judah had ever known, and because they have filled this place with the blood of the innocent 5 and have built the high places of Baal to burn their sons in the fire as burnt offerings to Baal, a thing which I never commanded or spoke of, nor did it ever enter My mind[/b];(DOESN'T SOUND LIKE A FOREKNOWN EVENT!)
Jer. 32:31 “Indeed this city has been to Me a provocation of My anger and My wrath from the day that they built it, even to this day, so that it should be removed from before My face, 32 because of all the evil of the sons of Israel and the sons of Judah which they have done(Why didn't God say 'which I made them do'?) to provoke Me to anger(What kind of God makes Himself angry?)—they, their kings, their leaders, their priests, their prophets, the men of Judah and the inhabitants of Jerusalem. 33 They have turned their back to Me and not their face; though I taught them, teaching again and again, they would not listen and receive instruction. 34 But they put their detestable things in the house which is called by My name, to defile it. 35 They built the high places of Baal that are in the valley of Ben-hinnom to cause their sons and their daughters to pass through the fire to Molech, which I had not commanded them nor had it entered My mind that they should do this abomination, to cause Judah to sin.[/b](God didn't make them sin!)
Three times in very similar language, if God is to be believed, He denies that this was something He commanded, He says "it had never entered My mind". I believe God!
I have no answers to this!
Please help
Thanks,
Addison