iHumans are not intrinsically evil...We are born with a nature that leans toward sin....God definitely does not make evil things. Genesis1:31 31 God saw everything that he had made, and indeed it was very good. So there was evening, and there was morning, a sixth day.
I think He creates evil things to battle evil things, because there are not enough warriors for God. He built up certain ruthless rulers and used them to battle other evil ppl, like the first ruler of Babylon, the ruler of the medes that shortly came after the hand writing on the wall, as just the easily documented examples of old. God's anger can be so terrible (although righteous), that He prefers to use those that will get the needed things done without the whole planet suffering (like with the flood). I dont say this as a learned man who knows scriptures back and forth, using them to back up arguments, but as one who gets a lot of inspiration of the Holy Spirit.
That's an interesting thought Dave....Let me ask you now....Can darkness exist without light? Or is simply a lack of light? Can evil exist without good? Or is it simply a lack of Good?
You can't destroy evil with evil. What would you have if you did?
Are you sure you're not misunderstanding based on translation? I mean....Why would God create evil....Its all in the death cycle...God is life. Why would He make death?
So you think the ruler of Babylon, the head of Gold, was a good ruler who destroyed the strength of the area around Israel (mostly Assyria), because he was a great force for good?
This is an interesting commentary.. Keeping in mind that commentaries are only one man's opinion or understanding of the Word. So, he could be right or not...Frustrating isn't it? :grin: We take our belief here, that God creates evil, from only one single verse..... But has any of us done a study of many verses about God, and whether or not He actually does create evil? Perhaps we should?
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I've never thought of Nebuchadnezzar as a good ruler or bad.....All I ever looked at him about was that he screwed up and God taught him a lesson.
This Human understands the Holy Spirit to be a breath, a puff of air...because of the word 'spirit' translates as 'pneuma' Pneuma simply means breath....So the Holy Spirit would be "The breath of God" Interesting but inaccurate.
Jer 27 1 In the beginning of the reign of Jehoiakim the son of Josiah, king of Judah, this word came to Jeremiah from the Lord, saying, 2 “Thus says the Lord to me: ‘Make for yourselves bonds and yokes, and put them on your neck, 3 and send them to the king of Edom, the king of Moab, the king of the Ammonites, the king of Tyre, and the king of Sidon, by the hand of the messengers who come to Jerusalem to Zedekiah king of Judah. 4 And command them to say to their masters, “Thus says the Lord of hosts, the God of Israel—thus you shall say to your masters: 5 ‘I have made the earth, the man and the beast that are on the ground, by My great power and by My outstretched arm, and have given it to whom it seemed proper to Me. 6 And now I have given all these lands into the hand of Nebuchadnezzar the king of Babylon, My SERVANT; and the beasts of the field I have also given him to serve him. 7 So all nations shall serve him and his son and his son’s son, until the time of his land comes; and then many nations and great kings shall make him serve them. 8 And it shall be, that the nation and kingdom which will not serve Nebuchadnezzar the king of Babylon, and which will not put its neck under the yoke of the king of Babylon, that nation I will punish,’ says the Lord, ‘with the sword, the famine, and the pestilence, until I have consumed them by his hand. 9 Therefore do not listen to your prophets, your diviners, your [c]dreamers, your soothsayers, or your sorcerers, who speak to you, saying, “You shall not serve the king of Babylon.” 10 For they prophesy a lie to you, to remove you far from your land; and I will drive you out, and you will perish.
