Who created evil? SECTION ONE - What is evil? Evil (noun) - something that brings sorrow, distress, or calamity. Evil (adjective) - arising from bad character, or conduct. Read KJV - Read part of KJV - Interpretations belong to - whom? LORD - give us perfection in your - WORD. What is evil to you? Are you thinking - bad things? How do you know its bad? A bad thing to one person, could be a good thing to another. Type in - evil - on a search. Next - look at the images of evil. How many weird looking clowns, did you see? What is your perception of - evil? Evil - coined around year 800. What was evil called before the year 800? Hebrew - ra = bad. Greek - poneros = bad. KJVersion interprets ra - evil (442x), wickedness (59x), wicked (25x), mischief (21x), hurt (20x), bad (13x), trouble (10x), sore (9x), affliction (6x), ill (5x), adversity (4x), ill favoured (3x), harm (3x), naught (3x), noisome (2x), grievous (2x), sad (2x), miscellaneous (34x). KJVersion only translates ra - bad (13x). KJVersion interprets poneros - evil (51x), wicked (10x), wicked one (6x), evil things (2x), miscellaneous (7x). KJVersion does not translate poneros to bad. Bad - reconcilation/punishment/evil/wicked/harm Possible origins - Itself created - evil. satan created - evil. God created - evil. If Evil created itself, then it's opposite should be able to create itself. If good and bad are self created, then one could assume other attributes are self created. Love, compassion, anger, guilt etc. could be self created. Pastors preach - satan created evil. Bible colleges teach - satan created evil. Many agree with - satan creating evil? YHVH clearly states that He created - evil. Doesn't matter. Many will still say - satan created evil. satan can not create - Good or Bad Can satan create bad from good, or good from bad? satan has no gender. satan is an instigator. It instigated Eve to - EAT FRUIT - from Tree of Knowledge of Good and Bad. satan is an imitator. It can imitate a subtle serpent. It can imitate an angel of light. It can imitate a roaring lion, seeking whom it may devour. Read part of KJV - Did you read - satan is a murderer - from the beginning? How is satan a human killer? God says - through lies. satan is called - Father of lies. Father - figure of speech used for - first use. Path of lies, created by God - first used by satan. Do you believe God creates adverse paths? If satan could create, it would have created an army in an effort to defeat God. Does not satan entice messengers (angels), and humans, to war against each other? Is satan still active in imitating the creation of armies? Do you think satan, the waster, was created by God, to destroy? Do you think satan is an artisan blowing coals, to create implements? Implements such as, weapons, for war. Implements such as, instruments, for music. Implements such as, schemes, plans, devices for deception. God gave him a certain principality of the pneuma (air/breath/wind). satan is a great generator. He can generate confusion, pride, attitudes, suggestions, - and on and on. He puts them to use. He sets them in motion. Stumbling blocks, that satan can use for stumbling, have already been created. Read part of KJV - Paul wrote - stone of toward strike and rock of snare. Who created the stone? How can you stumble over the stone? Who created - the rock? Who is - the ROCK? Read KJV - Satan can lie about the stone, to confuse you, and cause you to stumble? Did he create the stone? YHVH allows satan to be first to put certain evils (bads) - in motion. This is why it is called - Father of lies. SECTION TWO - Who creates what? Who can create what? Depends on how you perceive - create. satan can NOT create - Does scripture support it? Does first use of something, mean that it is born in who ever used it first? Eve was the first human to eat of the fruit of the tree of the knowledge of good and bad (evil). Did she create the wood, or the fruit? Did she create knowledge of good and bad (evil)? A person can create a cup from clay. The cup was a result of manipulating things that have been already - created. A cup can be formed, then fashioned as a person desires, but still created from things already - created. If you were the first to drink from a cup - Was the cup born in you? Was the drink born in you? Did you create the cup, or the drink? Just because you were first to drink, might not make you creator of anything. Can you look at a cup, and simply say - Man created the cup? In actuality, you can only create the form of a cup, because the cup is composed of things already created by God. Even the knowledge to form the cup, is given by - God. Do you believe man created biological micro organisms, such as, Protozoans, Bacteria, and Viruses? YHVH formed and fashioned the Earth from things - He had already created. SECTION THREE - Manipulating With the examples given, do you think that things created, are a result of manipulating things already - created? What about the things that were already created? How were they created to be manipulated into things? Who created them? In direct like manner, evil (bad), can be a result of satan having a given power to manipulate, already created, stepping/stumbling blocks for a specific reason. From that thought, many say that satan created - evil. But then - satan, itself, was created for a purpose. What is that purpose? Read part of KJV - Isaiah wrote - and I, I created one-ruining, to, to-harm-of. Some of the stepping/stumbling blocks, which had already been created, that Satan may have the power to manipulate, within us, are: MISCHIEF ARROGANCE PRIDE SUGGESTION DECEPTION DESTRUCTION Much more The ACT of manipulating stepping/stumbling blocks for adverse specific reasons, instead of righteous reconciliation, is known in modern times, as - sin. Sin - coined around 900 BCE. What was it called, before that? The RESULT of that manipulation of stepping/stumbling blocks is a bad thing, but known in modern times as - evil. Evil - coined around 800 CE. What was it called, before that? God will use evil to chastise evil. God uses bad, to chastise bad. God uses bad, to punish, adjust, reconcile - bad. YHVH used the blood of His Glory, to wash - bad. Read scriptures where God brings evil upon Israel. Israel does evil in the sight of the LORD - God brings evil to Israel - Israel repents. Then Israel does evil again in the sight of the LORD - God brings evil to Israel - Israel repents. How many times can you read this in scripture? This goes on - today. Read part of KJV - Who will bring evil (bad, reconcilation, punishment)? When will YHVH bring it? God brings punishment when He desires, as He will. Do you think God is bringing a reconciliation that satan created? How comfortable are you with the thought that when God applied evil to Israel, on many occasions, that He used the evil, satan had created? If you were the first to use a new sword for righteousness - would righteousness be born in you? If you used that sword for evil - would evil be born in you? Who created the sword - did you? If so - did you create it, or form it from things already created? If you swung the sword North - did you suddenly create North? North was already created - even the right side. Read part of KJV - Did you read - North and South? Ethan wrote - North and right(side) You, You created them. satan may have been first to drink from a cup of unrighteousness. Did he creat the vessel, or the unrighteousness in the vessel? SECTION FOUR - Discourse to King Cyrus. Read Isaiah 45. God's discourse to King Cyrus, through Isaiah, for restoration of Jerusalem. YHVH, even our God Almighty, declares His Majesty. Read KJV - Did you read - form light create darkness make peace create evil do all these things? Isaiah wrote - yasar light bara darkness asa peace bara bad asa all these things. God declares - He does ALL these things. KJV interprets yasar(yaw-tsar') - form (26x), former (2x),fashion (5x), make (3x), maker (4x), frame (3x), potter (17x), earthen (1x), purposed (1x). KJV interprets bara(baw-raw') - create (42x), creator (3x), make (2x),choose (2x), cut down (2x), dispatch (1x), done (1x), make fat (1x). KJV interprets asa(ah-saw') - do (1,333x), make (653x), maker (13x), wrought (52x), prepare (37x), deal (52x), commit (49x),offer (49x), execute (48x), keep (48x), shew (43x), work (29x),do so (21x), perform (18x), get (14x), dress (13x), maintain (7x), miscellaneous (154x). YHVH - forms light - from Its light. creates darkness - in Its light. makes peace - as He will. creates bad - to adjust peace. Read KJV - Isaiah wrote - That thus, He says, YHVH, One bara the heavens - He, the Elohim, yasar the Earth - One asa her, He established (kunne) her - not chaos, He bara her - to dwell of, He yasar her - I, YHVH, and there is no further. God declares - He does ALL these things. Read part of KJV - Did you read - made? Asaph wrote - Summer and Winter, you, you yasar them. KJV interprets yasar(yaw-tsar') - form (26x), potter (17x), fashion (5x), maker (4x), frame (3x), make (3x), former (2x), earthen (1x), purposed (1x). Did God make, or form - Summer and Winter? God makes, forms, creates, establishes - Summer, Winter, Spring, Fall, or any season - as He desires. Read KJV - Isaiah wrote - Behold, Behold - I created, I created. Behold Behold - I created, I created - are repetition emphasis. God emphasises that He creates. Behold Behold - I created the Smith that blows coals - I created the waster to destroy - What kind of instrument do you think God created for the waster? Isaiah wrote - kli(kel-ee') (something prepared). KJV interprets kli(kel-ee') - vessel (166x), instrument (39x), weapon (21x), jewel (21x), stuff (14x), armourbearer (18x), thing (11x),armour (10x), furniture (7x), carriage (3x), bag (2x), miscellaneous (13x). Did satan create any of that? SECTION FIVE - USE and ABUSE, of EVIL Read Psalm 104. Was it beautiful? YHVH forms things out of Its Power. God formed Earth from things that God had already formed. Read KJV - Power of God renews the Earth, with His Breath. Read KJV - Solomon wrote - is not wisdom she is calling, and understanding, she is giving voice to her? Isn't wisdom calling you? Do you put forth it's voice with understanding? Read KJV - Read KJV - Wisdom established, ever before the Earth was. Read part of KJV - Wisdom proclaims, even before God prepared the heavens. Logos (lawgoss) = thought → idea → logic → wisdom → proclaim → WORD Did satan create wisdom? Read part of KJV - Can satan do that? Read KJV - Read KJV - Author wrote - they shall praise name of YHVH, that He instructed, and they were created. Read KJV - Did you read - for BY Him, were all things created? Paul wrote - for IN Him, is created the all. Did you also read - BY Him and FOR Him? Paul wrote - THROUGH Him and INTO Him. ALL things - GOOD or BAD. Read part of KJV - CREATE - Greek(ktizo) = to make, produce. God created Principalities. God gave satan a certain principality of the air. Read KJV - Who creates ALL things? Read part of KJV - Who forms all things? Read KJV - SECTION SIX - Looking at Bad. Bad - punishment/reconcilation/wicked/harm/evil Is evil consistent? How can evil be described, if it has relative value? Evil to one person, may not be evil to another. For instance, if you spank your child, you do evil to your child. One person sees it as destruction, another sees it as loving reconciliation. Modern laws, see it as evil, and does evil to you, by putting you in jail. Did God ever do evil to Israel? Heritage dictionary says - use of evil brings disaster effects. How many scriptures supports God's use of stepping/stumbling blocks, that He had already created? Read part of KJV - Bad(evil) can be used as a - tool. Did you read - as sword, judgment, pestilence and famine? Bad/punishment/reconciliation/evil/harm, can be stumbling blocks. - negative effects. Good can be stepping stones - positive effects. Evil(bad) can be a path. Righteousness can be a path. Evil is a choice. God will use Bad for Glorification - positive. satan will use evil as God allows it to use evil - negative. How many bad(evil) paths do you think YHVH - created? Are the paths - literal, figurative, or both? Do you think satan chose a pathway that was already created for it to choose? God gave His angelic host (messengers), certain powers, with certain wisdom and knowledge. They are accountable for adverse action. It is preached there is no salvation for messengers that miss the mark. Salvation is what we have, that they desire to look into. Scripture talks of amartisen angels (amartisen = no mark). Angels miss the mark, by choosing an adverse path. Amartisen messengers are bound by YHVH. God will release them for a season - soon. Read KJV - Did you read - everlasting chains? Jude wrote - bonds unperceived. Read part of KJV - Did you read - hell- and chains of darkness? Peter wrote - hades (unperceived unseen) and caverns of gloom. Some say that amartisen angels, are fallen angels, that become demons for satan to use. Does scripture support angels becoming demons? Since Israel chose evil over and over again - Was evil born in Israel? Since Eve was the first human to disobey God - Was evil born in Eve? Since satan was created as a waster - Was evil born in satan? Can't see the pure diamond unless you contrast it on a black background. Hard to see purity, unless you contrast it with impurity. Evil, used for punishment, can be for loving reconciliation unto righteous paths. SECTION SEVEN - About satan. Is evil in the devil? Some say satan has talent of music. satan may have sung to Eve - for attention and confidence. As satan passes through realms - God uses it as an instrument of contrast. satan passes to and fro upon the Earth. satan walks up and down in the Earth. satan has a certain principality of the pneuma/air. Ezekiel links metaphor of King Tyrus to satan, as - cherub that fails. Angels are created breaths (spirits) of God. YHVH created the waster - to destroy. satan is a tool instrument. Created by YHVH, to glorify - YHVH. God creates all paths - good or bad. Some with blessings. Some with cursings. Why? It glorifies God, to have His free-will creations learn to be - over comers. YHVH loves to see us prevail in choosing a righteous path, over any enticement of an adverse path. God is incredible. Praise the LORD - forever. brotherwilson