jojom
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Sorry, your edit came before I finished posting my query. In any case, we have
1) God declaring himself the creator of evil
2) Moses claiming god's work is perfect and his ways are just. That god is faithful with justice (to what or whom we aren't told), and that he's righteous and upright.
3) Habakkuk who says (some say, "complains") that god's eyes are too good to look at evil, and can't condone wickedness (s.s. "evil"), and then complains "So why do you permit such evil?" (ERV)
Note that neither Moses or Habakkuk actually deny god created evil, nor should we expect them to. In fact, Habakkuk even acknowledges god's part in permitting evil to exist. Then there's the matter of whose word would you take as the most authoritative?2) Moses claiming god's work is perfect and his ways are just. That god is faithful with justice (to what or whom we aren't told), and that he's righteous and upright.
3) Habakkuk who says (some say, "complains") that god's eyes are too good to look at evil, and can't condone wickedness (s.s. "evil"), and then complains "So why do you permit such evil?" (ERV)
And then you cite CARM *sigh* (Talk about a sad, fundamentalist driven agenda. Sheeesh!)
"We can see that the Bible teaches that God is pure and does not approve of evil, that the word rah (evil) in Hebrew can mean many things, and that contextually the verse is speaking of calamity and distress. Therefore, God does not create evil in the moral sense, but in the sense of disaster or calamity."
Along with the sorry argument that "ra" necessarily means something other than evil in Isaiah 45:7. Having run into this apologetic before I found that almost half (47%) of all Bibles use the term "evil." The remaining 53% was comprised of eight other interpretations ("disaster" 16% and "calamity" 10%).
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