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Why does the Christian god create evil and/or catastrophes?
Isaiah 45:7
"I form the light, and create darkness: I make peace, and create evil: I the Lord do all these things."
Some say it's better translated as "create catastrophes" but that doesn't really change the question.
1 Answer
- BJLv 77 days ago
The Meaning of God’s Bringing Evil. Rightly, God brought evil or calamity upon Adam for his disobedience.
Hence, in the Scriptures, God is referred to as the Creator of evil or calamity. His enforcing of the penalty for sin, namely, death, has proved to be an evil, or a calamity, for mankind.
So, then, evil is not always synonymous with wrongdoing.
Examples of evils or calamities created by God are the Flood of Noah’s day and the Ten Plagues visited upon Egypt. But these evils were not wrongs. Rather, the rightful administration of justice against wrongdoers was involved in both cases.
However, at times God, in his mercy, has refrained from bringing the intended calamity or evil in execution of his righteous judgment because of the repentance on the part of those concerned.
Additionally, in having a warning given, Jehovah has undeservedly provided opportunities for the practicers of bad to change their course and thus to keep living.