The snippets you pointed out are OT...and NT...but you do not include the context....for example, the one you despise the most....
“Happy is the one who seizes your infants / and dashes them against the rocks.” To “imprecate” means to “pray evil against,” and the imprecatory prayers in the Bible strike people today as strange or wrong. It is important to understand the context of this verse and others like it. The background is the Jewish people calling upon God to exact revenge upon their military enemies.
Context doesn't alter what is said. When the bible tells us that God is responsible for the existence of evil, that is precisely what is meant and intended,
When the bible tells us that God creates evil and the evildoer for the day of evil, that is precisely what is meant and intended.
When the bible tells us that God as the 'Potter' creates vessels 'fitted for destruction,' that is precisely what is meant and intended.
Context does not alter what is written, meant and intended.
Context does not transform what is written, meant and intended into something more palatable for the believer. .
Yes, God created evil. However, it is important to understand that God did not create evil directly, but indirectly. God created angels and men with the potential and capability of committing evil by sinning because it was an important part of God’s Plan for them that they would experience both good and evil. Two beings who represent the pinnacle of evil are Satan and Hitler. One is a fallen angel and the other is a fallen man. God created a holy angel called Lucifer who became Satan when he sinned by rebelling against God. Also, God created Adam and Eve who were holy people before they sinned by eating the forbidden fruit from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil. As a result of their sin, Adam and Eve became sinners and all of their descendants are born with an unrighteous sinful fallen nature. God has complete foreknowledge of everything that happens in His creation. Therefore, the sins of fallen angels and the sins of fallen men do not take Him by surprise
you are just a bit ignorant. no God did not created evil. thats something developed by a spirit /angel that went against God's arrangement. that one was not named Lucifer we in fact dont know what his name really is
The bible itself states that God creates evil.
It states that God creates the evildoer for the day of evil, that God creates the dumb, the blind, the deaf, etc....that God is responsible for all these things, good and evil:
"And the LORD said unto him, Who hath made man's mouth? Or who maketh the dumb, or deaf, or the seeing, or the blind? Have not I the Lord?" Exodus 4:11
"Out of the mouth of the most High proceedeth not evil and good? " (Lamentations 3:38)
"The LORD hath made all things for himself: yea, even the wicked for the day of evil.'' Proverbs 16:4
Shall a trumpet be blown in the city, and the people not be afraid? shall there be evil in a city, and the LORD hath not done it?" (Amos 3:6, KJV)
''Whatever the Lord pleases, He does, In heaven and in earth, in the seas and in all deeps.'' (Psalm 135:6)
"I form the light, and create darkness: I make peace, and create evil: I the LORD do all these things." (Isaiah 45:7, KJV)
This is your bible telling you this, not me.
As usual, you don’t understand…..,probably because you don’t want to.
Be that as it may… God does bring judgment for sin and disobedience.
If one were to look at these verses in context this is clear.
However, you cannot..blinded?
For example, I have previously explained the “Happy is the one who…..” set of verses. As I recall the verses describe the enemies of the Jews after a Jewish defeat.
I don't understand? What a load of Crock.
It is you who cannot accept what the verses clearly say and mean.
It is you who seeks to rationalize what they are telling us.
You do that because it doesn't fit the image of God that you have created in your own mind.
Because what we are told about God creating evil does not suit the image of God you have created in your own mind, you seek to transform what we are clearly told into something that suits your needs, the opposite of what is clearly written and meant.
That is the truth.
Again and again and again.....That is your opinion.....not to be too crude, but opinions are like asp-holes, we all have one.
It's clearly not my opinion. I did nothing more than quote what is written in the bible.
Surely you don't think that the verses I quoted - anyone can check that they are in the bible - is somehow my opinion?
So to get this straight, I quote some verses and you say what is written in them is my opinion?
