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It's been covered in-depth here within this Thread already in previous posts.sanhedrin said:where then would evil be coming from if God is not the origin of evil?
Many of God's people don't really understand enough of God's Word about the devil's origin and how evil began, when our Heavenly Father did show us in His Word. Proof of that is how even here thus far within this Thread, it still has not yet progressed to the point of how iniquity could be found in Satan, since God originally created him a good cherub that was perfect in his ways (Ezek.28).
If that's not enough, many here still don't have a clue as to when it was when Satan first rebelled against God and drew a third of the angels into rebellion with him.
Seeking to define the word for "evil" in Isaiah 45:7 is not enough, since it is only in relation to this 'present' world since the man Adam. Since Satan began evil, God uses it for this present world since Adam. Not so for the world to come.lforrest said:We should first define what 'evil' is refereed to in Isaiah 45:7 from the translations that use this word.
So what is so evil about violent natural phenomenon unless they affect people. I would say it is the people subject to these natural disasters, and those that empathize with them that call it evil. A storm in the gaseous clouds of Jupiter is not evil. Good and evil is often used to subjectively describe some action that has an affect on someone. Good an evil is definitely subjective in the hearts of men, otherwise God wouldn't have written Isaiah 5:20. The evil we should be concerned with are the things considered evil in the Eyes of the Lord,
What do we do to know what God considers evil? He is unsearchable. Romans 3:10-18 And “Why do you call me good?” Jesus answered. “No one is good—except God alone." Mark 10:18
2 Chronicles 12:14 says "He did evil because he had not set his heart on seeking the Lord."
We know that if you seek you will find. Have Faith in him and persist in your attempts of doing good.
Only when you begin to understand that there was another world before the time of Adam when Satan originally rebelled against God, will you begin to be able to understand how the concept of evil began with the devil, and not from God.
Here, can you find the following events in bold having happened at any time within today's world since Adam??
Rev 12:3-4
3 And there appeared another wonder in heaven; and behold a great red dragon, having seven heads and ten horns, and seven crowns upon his heads.
4 And his tail drew the third part of the stars of heaven, and did cast them to the earth: and the dragon stood before the woman which was ready to be delivered, for to devour her child as soon as it was born.
(KJV)