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Originally Posted by n david
I love this scripture. But this doesn't mean God is wicked, not by any means! The word for "evil" here is adversity or calamity. It's righteous judgement, not evil, such as sin is.
I made a cake once....didn't make me a baker. God created adversity and calamity, but He is not wicked.
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Yes, I love this scripture too, because it shows the diversity and creativity of our God. The wisdom that He had in the beginning to create both good and evil, in order to bring about a greater good. We can't even begin to fathom all who He the Creator is, but we can be sure that He has a plan.
Another question I've always pondered in my heart is this. We always say or have read "God is love". God loves all humanity. Indeed He does.
But, he also has the capacity to hate too.
Read this:
Mal. 1:1-3
1 The burden of the word of the LORD to Israel by Malachi.
2 I have loved you, saith the LORD. Yet ye say, Wherein hast thou loved us? Was not Esau Jacob's brother? saith the LORD: yet I loved Jacob,
3 And I hated Esau, and laid his mountains and his heritage waste for the dragons of the wilderness.
And then again:
Romans 9:13-16
13 As it is written, Jacob have I loved, but Esau have I hated.
14 What shall we say then? Is there unrighteousness with God? God forbid.
15 For he saith to Moses, I will have mercy on whom I will have mercy, and I will have compassion on whom I will have compassion.
16 So then it is not of him that willeth, nor of him that runneth, but of God that sheweth mercy.
How can a GOD who loves so much, hate one, even though he sought forgiveness carefully with tears?
Heb. 12:17
I can't really answer that question, because I'm not God. But I do know that God, in His infinite wisdom, has a plan, and a purpose in all that He does. Paul recognized this too, because he didn't give an answer as to why God hated Esau and why Pharaoh was raised up to serve an evil purpose for the Israelites, but went on to write these beautiful words:
Romans 9:
8 Therefore hath he mercy on whom he will have mercy, and whom he will he hardeneth.
19 Thou wilt say then unto me, Why doth he yet find fault? For who hath resisted his will?
20 Nay but, O man, who art thou that repliest against God? Shall the thing formed say to him that formed it, Why hast thou made me thus?
21 Hath not the potter power over the clay, of the same lump to make one vessel unto honour, and another unto dishonour?
22 What if God, willing to shew his wrath, and to make his power known, endured with much longsuffering the vessels of wrath fitted to destruction:
23 And that he might make known the riches of his glory on the vessels of mercy, which he had afore prepared unto glory,
My point being this... who am I, to question the Lord of Glory as to why He can love one, and hate another, why he can raise up a man to be used in wickedness against His own people in order to bring forth a greater good... I don't have the answers to these questions, nor will I find them.
Can the potter say to the clay, why has thou made me thus? Paul didn't have the answer either, but settled on the fact that whatever God's plan and purposes are, they are greater in design than we can fathom.
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