Did God Create Evil?

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[TheNinjaInConverse]

I enjoy the long-suffering tone of these videos. A tired dad mood entirely!

[JustaLad]

Hahahahah
Dark:
"The gradual yet consistent fall of the society's moral standards, which leads us into an impending doom of misery and self distruction"

Or

"the Sun ain't up yet bro"

[LemLures]

I really appreciate this a lot. This is one of those things that I’ve put on the back burner of my mind and never got back to it. This was definitely one of those “Lord I believe, help me in my unbelief” moments.

[JosiahTheSiah]

A general sense of the word is just "bad." It has a huge lexical range, much broader than the english word "evil." So as you say, the meaning is better determined in context.

[TodoWasTaken]

Another thing worth noting, the Hebrew term translated to "Create" here can also mean to clear or cut down. Joshua 17:18 is one example. So this could be interpreted as God creating calamity as a punishment for sin, but it can also be interpreted as God cutting down/clearing calamity.

[docsspellingcontest]

It still causes suffering whether it’s evil, bad, calamity, or any other word you want to stick in there

[michaelg]

thx bro. you enrich my knowledge of good an evil

[glendagajsek-shears]

Help us all not to fall or be given into evil... God removes and changes hearts and minds from evil to good. The love of God wins over evil...
Please loving God almighty.

[Iluvantir]

Nice, polite, well thought out explanation... that doubtless fell on deaf ears, but... the truth needs to be said. Well done, brother.

[Jim-Mc]

Gavin Ortlund recently did a video that addressed 'natural evil'/disasters and related suffering as having been a product of the fall of the Principalities and Powers that govern nature. Very likely prior to man's fall (since the Serpent already was evil and intruded into the Garden). Would love your thoughts on this idea.

[evanlarson]

I had this on my mind as of late, but could not remember the line of reasoning concerning it. Thanks!

[CT-]

More hardline Calvinists like White also use this verse to tie God's sovereignty to Him ordaining evil (i.e. some form of determinism). They mistranslate a passage, combine with bunk philosophy, and bam! A warped view of God's character

[TheBigWeasel_]

Proof of what you said more too, is in the 3 chapter of Jonah.

2 different “evils” there

“Then God saw their works, that they turned from their evil way;
and God relented from the disaster that He had said He would bring upon them, and He did not do it.”
‭‭Jonah‬ ‭3‬:‭10‬ ‭NKJV‬‬

Some translations use disaster for evil.
Meaning they are two different things

[cvernon]

This is a good example of "lost in interpretation." There are a great deal of either nuances or key details that get lost from language to language because they don't have three dance means of sharing information or ideas.

[philltheotherguy]

And it seems this original short was a response to the comment which already says this.

[frogpaste]

Sorry, after you said 'ra' all I can hear is,

"Rah, rah-ah-ah-ah
Roma, roma-ma
Gaga, ooh-la-la."

So thanks a lot for that. 😩
😁

[CLDJ]

Nice breakdown of another often misunderstood verse 😎.

[sweatycalves]

It's always fun seeing atheists getting angry at God being the author of all things including using evil to signify that which is good, authors do this all the time and are not considered evil for doing so but when God the creator of all things does it it is automatically despised. It's a double standard do to our hatred of God that is inconsistent and laughable.

[JudgeGideon]

The simple answer is that God created literally everything that exists. We all just use what God gives us in different ways. Nobody, including Satan himself can create anything that God didn't already give to us.

[bronsonvann]

Please keep this stream up, it’s one of the only vegan and christian responses to this argument