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John from Kentucky:
God is responsible for all things.
But God does not Himself do evil. It is offensive to Him. That is why He created Satan. Satan's purpose is to actually do the evil actions.
God does not kill people with tornados. They are not acts of God. God does not rape and kill children. Satan does.
Several who are unlearned in the ways of God, when they learn God is responsible for all things, falsely conclude God does the evil acts.
Ray had to address this matter when some suggested God willed the rape and murder of little girls. Not so. God does not do the evil acts. The little toady Satan does the actual evil deeds.
It is hard for newbies to understand this. It takes study of the Scriptures and the Spirit of God to fully understand the Truth of this matter. Some take some Scriptures and imply that God does the actual evil deeds.
Johnny70:
Hi John,
That is an interesting statement that God does not do the evil Himself - He just uses an evil tool like Satan who He created specifically to do His evil deeds. Satan is like a "HIT MAN" and that is fine - but I cannot understand how that makes God any less directly involved - Isaiah 45:7 Complete Jewish Bible (CJB) "I form light, I create darkness; I make well-being, I create woe; I, Adonai, do all these things." Having said that God is not in love with evil but He deems it necessary for the our development -we are molded and treated as raw clay and He is The involved Master Potter IMHO. Did Satan do this -Genesis 6:5-7 Complete Jewish Bible (CJB) (Maftir) "5 Adonai saw that the people on earth were very wicked, that all the imaginings of their hearts were always of evil only. 6 Adonai regretted that he had made humankind on the earth; it grieved his heart. 7 Adonai said, “I will wipe out humankind, whom I have created, from the whole earth; and not only human beings, but animals, creeping things and birds in the air; for I regret that I ever made them.” And again John who did this - Genesis 19:23-26 Complete Jewish Bible (CJB) "23 By the time Lot had come to Tzo‘ar, the sun had risen over the land. 24 Then Adonai caused sulfur and fire to rain down upon S’dom and ‘Amora from Adonai out of the sky. 25 He overthrew those cities, the entire plain, all the inhabitants of the cities and everything growing in the ground. 26 But his wife looked back from behind him, and she became a column of salt." No offence John just curious about how you reason these things out.
Johnny
Musterseed:
God did not regret making humans. I heard Ray speak on this. God does not regret
anything. He’s Sovereign.
I am not qualifyied with the my limited knowledge of scripture but I do remember certain
things spoken of by Ray. Maybe someone can help me.
John from Kentucky:
Hi Johnny,
This is a difficult truth to fully understand.
How can God be responsible for every single thing that occurs, and I mean everything, but not Himself do the evil things.
As Ray said. God is very smart. He has a high I.Q. God created a being who is pure evil, a crooked serpent, to do the evil actions that God Himself will just not do because evil things are not in His nature.
Evil is needed to educate His creation. You cannot know good without knowing evil to contrast good against.
James 1:17 tells us that the good comes from God in whom there is no variation or shadow of turning.
Another Scripture tells us God cannot lie. So how can you create a lie if you cannot Yourself lie? You create a being whose core is a lie. Jesus said Satan was the father of lies. Jesus also said Satan was a murderer from his beginning. So we know where all the murders come from.
Yeah, God has a high I.Q.
The Book of Job is probably the oldest book in the Bible. From it we learn many fundamental Truths. Satan is the one who actually does the evil actions. Satan kills Job's ten children with a destructive wind (tornado) since Satan is the prince of the power of the air. Satan takes away Job's wealth. Satan takes Job's health. But he leaves Job a nagging wife.
God does not do these evil things to Job. Satan does. But God sets limits and parameters around the evil that Satan can do.
Yes, the Book of Job teaches us certain basic truths about God and the function of Satan.
Also, the Spirit of God within us teaches fundamental Truths about God. God does not and cannot rape and kill little girls. God does not and cannot kill people and children with tornados. God does not lie. God is Good.
I find it offensive when others attribute evil deeds to God. God does not need me, but I will always support and defend our Magnificent God and King.
These matters need to be thought about and studied, and ultimately confirmed in our hearts, our innermost being, by God's Spirit.
"Not by might, nor by power, but by My Spirit says the LORD GOD Almighty."
Dennis Vogel:
Gen 3:22 And the LORD God said, Behold, the man is become as one of us, to know good and evil: and now, lest he put forth his hand, and take also of the tree of life, and eat, and live for ever:
One reason we are here is to learn about "good and evil."
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