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Is God the Author of Evil?

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Whenever I tell people that God-is-all-the-time-good, I am invariably rebuked by those who say he isn’t. And they’ve got the scriptures to prove it. Job 1:21 says God robbed Job 1 Samuel 2:6-7 says God makes people poor and kills them Exodus 4:11 says God gives people disabilities Isaiah 45:7 says God is the creator of evil and darkness I enjoy unpacking these scriptures and proving, from scripture, that God is not the villainous Dr. Evil that some people think he is. In fairness, those who say God does evil are usually quick to add that it’s a good kind of evil. “His ways are higher than our ways.” So when we do evil, it’s bad, but when God does evil, it’s good. Makes total sense. Let’s not mince words. To be evil is to be “profoundly immoral and wicked” and God is neither. For you are not a God who takes pleasure in wickedness; No evil dwells with you. (Psa 5:4) God and evil go together like light and dark. With that settled, let’s look at three scriptures that seem to suggest that God speaks or does evil. Is it not out of the mouth of the Most High [...]

The “I Wills” of God

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At the foot of Mt Sinai the Israelites boasted “We will do everything the Lord commands” (Ex 19:8). Perhaps you have said something similar, but this is a fatal boast, and a recipe for disaster. Make an impossible promise and you will invariably break it. What the Lord demands you cannot provide. This is the lesson of the old covenant, yet many have not learned it. They’re stuck on the vicious cycle of making and breaking promises, repenting, then promising to do better next time. Oh, how we need a revelation of the new covenant that is based on his unbreakable promises to us. I will make an everlasting covenant with them: I will never stop doing good to them, and I will inspire them to fear me, so that they will never turn away from me. (Jeremiah 32:40) The difference between the old and the new is we will versus he will. In the old, we broke our word again and again, but in the new he keeps his word forever. It’s a huge difference. We no longer wobble on the shaky ground of our resolve, but we stand secure on the Rock of Ages. List all the promises [...]

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