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Apr 10, 2023 · God’s sovereign rule over all things good and bad—over success and calamity for His people Israel—is cause for hope in the lives of believers today. We can trust and “know that God causes everything to work together for the good of those who love God and are called according to his purpose for them” (Romans 8:28, NLT).
- Questions About Isaiah
What did it mean that Satan wanted to be like the Most High...
- Did God Create Evil
Answer. At first it might seem that if God created all...
- Habakkuk 1
God is not the author of sin, but He can use sinful men to...
- Questions About Isaiah
- Why Create Free Creatures Capable of Evil?
- God Knows How to Derive Good from Evil
- The Greatest Good from The Greatest Evil
“God is in no way, directly or indirectly, the cause of moral evil. He permits it, however, because he respects the freedom of his creatures and, mysteriously, knows how to derive good from it” (see Catechism of the Catholic Church, 311). Free will alone cannot explain the existence of evil. If free will is the cause of evil, why would God allow th...
Genesis is bookended beautifully. At the beginning, we read of the creation and goodness of all things. Soon we find creation has become corrupted and evil has entered the world. Throughout the rest of the book, we see the fruits of this evil: murder, fratricide, genocide, rape, incest, adultery, deception, theft, etc. And in the case of Joseph, th...
We often think of the Old Testament as having the most egregious accounts of evil. And while it does certainly contain a great deal of it, it does not compare to the greatest of evils ever committed. But God knows how to draw good even from this. “From the greatest moral evil ever committed, the rejection and murder of God’s only Son, caused by the...
I form the light, and create darkness; I make peace, and create evil; I am the LORD, that doeth all these things. GOD'S WORD® Translation I make light and create darkness. I make blessings and create disasters. I, the LORD, do all these things. Good News Translation I create both light and darkness; I bring both blessing and disaster.
Jan 4, 2022 · Answer. At first it might seem that if God created all things, then evil must have been created by God. However, evil is not a “thing” like a rock or electricity. You cannot have a jar of evil. Evil has no existence of its own; it is really the absence of good. For example, holes are real but they only exist in something else.
Jan 4, 2022 · God is not the author of sin, but He can use sinful men to attain an objective. Romans 8:28 says, “For those who love God all things work together for good, for those who are called according to his purpose.” “All things” includes both good and bad things. God can use struggles, heartbreaks and tragedies in ways to bring about His glory ...
Jan 5, 2023 · Darkness is simply a lack of light, which is enormously helpful in seeing a few things. First of all, God, while sovereign over all things, is not the creator, the author, of evil. But it also means that evil simply does not have the kind of existence good does. Good and evil are not equal and opposite things. Good is an eternal reality found ...
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Occasionally someone will quote Isaiah 45:7 (KJV) and claim it proves God made evil as a part of His creation: "I form the light, and create darkness: I make peace, and create evil: I the Lord do all these things" (emphasis added). But the New American Standard Bible gives the sense of Isaiah 45:6-7 more clearly: "There is no one besides Me.
