[UntoHim]

Originally Posted by awareness

God says in Isaiah 45:7 "I create evil."

Now Harold what did I just tell you about being myopic when quoting a single verse?

Here's the WHOLE VERSE:
The One forming light and creating darkness, Causing well-being and creating calamity; I am the LORD who does all these. NASB
forming the light and creating darkness, making peace and creating evil: I, Jehovah, do all these things. KJV

The more modern of the English translations, the NASB, renders a more true sense of the Hebrew here. Notice how light is juxtaposed with darkness, then peace is juxtaposed with "evil". The word translated “peace” here is the all-too-familiar Hebrew “Shalom” – the word translated “evil” is a somewhat more obscure (to us) Hewbrew “Ra”. So what shall we suppose to be the opposite of “Shalom/Peace”? It would certainly not be what the English reader would understand as “Evil”, at least not in the conventional sense of the word.(as you have implied). It would be more along the lines of “un-peace” or “anti peace”, thus the rendering of the NASB “calamity”.

For a complete treatment of this see: http://www.mountainretreatorg.net/faq/create_evil.html

Harold if you are going to be quoting God and his Word don’t be so off-the-cuff and sloppy.