DID GOD CREATE EVIL? CAN A GOD OF LOVE AND PEACE CREATE EVIL?

GOOD VERSUS EVIL. Can a God of Love and Peace Create Evil?

GOD is the First, the #1, the Creator, and the Cause of everything. He is the source and reason of all that exists, including evil. Evil exists because of the distance or absence of God. Good exists because of the closeness or presence of God. Another definition of EVIL is the quality of being unfinished, or incomplete.

By: LOPE COLUMNA

MESSIANIC-KABBALIST PASTOR GENERAL

The BRIDE OF CHRIST MINISTRY OF LIFE

Pure evil cannot exist in the presence of God. The Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil was able to exist in the Garden of Eden because there is good in it, but not for so long. If the Tree of Knowledge has no good in it, it cannot exist in the Garden, where the presence of God dwells.

Many people find it hard to believe that a God of love and peace will create evil. But God Himself admitted that it is He who created both good and evil, light and darkness (Isa 45:7).

• I form the light, and create darkness; I make peace, and create evil; I am the LORD, that doeth all these things. (Isa 45:7 JPS)

If a person believes that the Creator God did not create evil, then it follows that the person believes that there is another god, an evil creator god that created evil. This makes logic to corrupted human reasoning. But this is a lie and a very dangerous assumption. Therefore, the Only True God makes it clear in Isaiah 45:5-6.

• I am the LORD, and there is none else, beside Me there is no God...That they may know from the rising of the sun (East), and from the west, that there is none beside Me; I am the LORD; and there is none else. (Isa 45:5-6 Jewish Publication Society Bible)

The BELIEF THAT GOD DID NOT CREATE EVIL IS FOOLISHNESS, AND LEADS TO SIN!

There is ONLY ONE CREATOR GOD. And Good and Evil, including Satan, the agent of Evil, do exist because GOD created them all, for His own purpose. The wife of Job cannot accept this truth that GOD also create and send evil, even to the righteous people like Job (Job 2:10).

• But he (Job) said unto her, Thou speakest as one of the foolish women speaketh. What? Shall we receive good at the hand of God, and shall we not receive evil? In all this did not Job sin with his lips. (Job 2:10 KJV)

Job 2:10 shows that a person who believed that GOD only gives good, and not evil, is foolish. And this belief of falsehood leads to sin!

ALTHOUGH GOD CREATED EVIL, THERE IS NO EVIL IN HIMSELF 

Although God created evil, there is no evil in Himself. God is Holy and Divine, which means Pure Good. And Man was created to acquire the same characteristics and quality. This is what it means when God declared the purpose of the creation of man in Genesis 1:26.

• Then God said, "Let Us make man in Our image, according to Our likeness..." God created man in His own image; He created him in the image of God... (Gen 1:26-27 HCSB)

This means that man must develop a very close, intimate relationship with God the Father, for him to acquire that Image and Likeness of God, which are Holiness and Pure Good.

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