Some folks are eager to notice things that brand God expect bad. Recently, mortal brought Isaiah 45:7 to my attending for this purpose:
“I shape the light, as well as exercise darkness: I brand peace, as well as exercise evil: I the LORD exercise all these things.” KJV(1)
By ignoring the residual of Scripture, they concluded that God is responsible for evil.
However:
1. Scripture explains that God created a perfect basis as well as when mankind sinned, evil entered the world.(2)
2. Scripture describes God equally pure goodness, dearest as well as light.(3)
3. The Hebrew give-and-take ra' inward this passage is best translated “adversity,” non evil.(4)
4. The context of the passage is vantage as well as punishment, non the root of adept as well as evil.(5)
God does exercise judge through adversity: He punishes unrepentant sinners as well as refines the organized faith of His children through adversity.
But He doesn’t exercise sin, encourage sin, or campaign sin.(6)
Many verses inward Scripture, when pulled out of context or read inward a unmarried translation tin look to nation something they don’t.(7)
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(1) The King James is a adept translation, but only similar other adept translations, it has passages that don't best reverberate the master copy Greek as well as Hebrew. That's ane argue it's adept to written report several adept translations. The master copy Hebrew as well as Greek are the most accurate forms of Scripture, but God intended for all languages to savour His Word, as well as then nosotros shouldn't larn equally good hyper virtually translation differences. Many of the Hebrew as well as Greek words accept no equivalent inward other languages, as well as then nosotros exercise the best nosotros can.No translation is "perfect" but all of the major translations are adept for reading as well as study. The King James Version was written earlier the oldest manuscripts of Scripture were discovered (the Dead Sea Scrolls), as well as then it contains passages non included inward the master copy manuscripts but added afterward past times scribes. These added passages exercise non contradict Scripture, but the newer translations omit them because they were non business office of the master copy manuscripts. Some people claim that newer translations are less accurate than the KJV due to these missing passages. That's non true.
See Isaiah 45:7 inward the NIV,
ESV, NASB, NLT HERE as well as GNT, AMP, as well as NKJV HERE.
For to a greater extent than on translations, see: Is the KJV the Best Translation? Why Are the Newer Translations Missing Verses?, Missing Bible Verses, Is the King James the Only Reliable Bible?
(2) Genesis 1:31; Genesis 3
(3) Punishing evil is a adept affair as well as God promises to exercise so: Isaiah 13:11, Revelation 21:5-8.
God also uses adversity to dependent land His children as well as then they volition plough from sin: Hebrews 12:1-12. And He uses adversity to refine our faith: 1 Peter 1:6-7.
(4) Strong’s Concordance
(5) Isaiah 45
(6) There is no darkness inward God: 1 John 1:5. God never causes sin: James 1:13. Everything coming from God’s mitt is good: James 1:17.
(7) See Pieces Parts, Prayer inward Context, 3 Ways to Discern Spiritual Truths.
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