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- In the Bible, evil is routinely contrasted with good. 10 Evil has a wide range of meanings in Scripture, referring to anything that is bad, deficient, harmful, or wicked. 11 The biblical concept of evil is identified as: Something deficient, negative, or worthless (Gen 41:3; 2 Kgs 2:19; Matt 7:17; Acts 17:5)
www.logos.com/grow/what-is-evil-biblically/What Is Evil—Biblically? What the Bible Says about Good & Evil
- Evil Is Real.Link
- All Have Sinned and Fall Short of The Glory of God.Link
- God Is Good.Link
- God Ordains All Things That Come to Pass, Including Evil.Link
- Man Is Responsible For His Actions.Link
- God Did Not Spare His Own Son.Link
- Heaven Works Backwards.Link
That is to say, we distort the Bible and do ourselves a profound disservice by minimizing the existence of suffering. God invites us to acknowledge our pain. The Psalmist wrote, "I believed, even when I spoke, 'I am greatly afflicted'" (Psalm 116:10).
In some ways, talking about a "problem of evil" is a false start. A better quandary to start with would be the problem of sin. How quickly we rush to raise a self-righteous fist while our other hand digs in the cookie jar. "Yet you say, 'The way of the Lord is not just.' Hear now, O house of Israel: Is my way not just? Is it not your ways that are ...
Whatever we say about God's sovereignty over evil (and say we will; see below), we must never imply that God is corrupt, that he somehow nurses a dark side. "Let no one say when he is tempted, 'I am being tempted by God,' for God cannot be tempted with evil, and he himself tempts no one" (James 1:13).
God does whatever he pleases (Psalm 135:6). To be sure, this means he clothes lilies and feeds birds (Matthew 6:26, 28). But he also makes lightning (Psalm 135:7). He strikes down firstborn children and kills mighty kings (Psalm 135:8). Our God holds sway over the good, the bad, and the ugly. "I form light and create darkness," he says. "I make wel...
Lest we fall into fatalism, we should remember that God's sovereignty never excuses wrongdoing. When a man commits murder, the blood is on his hands. "For the Son of Man goes as it has been determined, but woe to that man by whom he is betrayed!" (Luke 22:22).
The cross speaks to our theology of suffering in at least two ways. First, it shows us that God can will something to happen that he opposes. Proverbs 6:16-17 tells us that God hates "hands that shed innocent blood." And yet he sent his Son to suffer precisely that fate. Is this a mystery? Absolutely. But it is not nonsense. We can look at evil and...
C. S. Lewis writes in The Great Divorce, "They say of some temporal suffering, 'No future bliss can make up for it,' not knowing that Heaven, once attained, will work backwards and turn even that agony into a glory." Lewis is not being novel here. He is simply restating what Christians have hoped in for centuries, the promise that gives all our suf...
Isaiah 5:20. King James Version. 20 Woe unto them that call evil good, and good evil; that put darkness for light, and light for darkness; that put bitter for sweet, and sweet for bitter! Read full chapter. Isaiah 5:20 in all English translations.
Discover the meaning of Evil in the Bible. Study the definition of Evil with multiple Bible Dictionaries and Encyclopedias and find scripture references in the Old and New Testaments.
Jan 23, 2024 · From a biblical perspective, we can be sure of a few points: God is good, wise, and sovereign. His creation, which culminated in the Sabbath, was designed to allow for human flourishing, not human suffering. Humanity’s distrust of God resulted in brokenness, pain, and suffering.
Learning the wisdom of the Bible helps us discern good from evil and good teachings from evil teachings. Even when evil teachings are disguised as good, and argued shrewdly, we will not be easily fooled.
May 18, 2020 · Philosophers such as John Stuart Mill have argued that the existence of evil demonstrates that God is either not omnipotent or not good and loving—the reasoning being that if evil exists apart from the sovereign power of God, then by resistless logic, God cannot be deemed omnipotent.
