did God crdeate evil

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Michael asks this question:Why did God create evil?
Isaiah45:7 says that God created evil, why?

Ireply:
i bet it doesnt !

edit: ok, im convinced there is something to this contradiction.[ideleted the rest of the answer] God cannot be a being without any darkness of any kind, and still plan for evil. or there are two different persons being spoken of here as the same god.

at face value it does certainly look like it. but one would have to realize translations dont always use the correct words.
7 I form the light, and create darkness: I make peace, and create evil: I the Lord do all these things.

for instance in the ten commandments alone the word in english is thou shalt not kill. yet every jewish rabbi and scribe will tell you it is literally thou shalt not murder.
so, in this example it might be a truer meaning to say God causes evil to happen or allows it to happen.

it is written else where God does not tempt with sin.

literally when a witch or a pagan Cries "foul" or points at a "baby-killing-god" couldnot be a god of love!
in another interpretation, God will destroy nations and wicked shall call it evil. but it not evil to defend people and destroy an army of murderers and peoples that do human sacrifices. when teh world sees stuff like this it is just as much a villification of the holy god.
even though God says of himself he is a warrior.

p.s. another point of veiw is that satan is self-created because it is written that in the beginning God created all the host of heaven and saw that they were good. lucifier is declared to become satan of his own choice by not obeying God or submitting to the Messiah Jesus. through pride.
the term Satan is defined as Enemy of God or enemy of righteousness. might have literally been "god-breathed" but who knows of this truth?
when it comes to mixxing of terms and conditions, one must agree that a plague is not evil, it is a punishment. it might be perceived as evil. but in general terms again if a person gets boils or lice and sufferes it could mean mostly that humans brought it upon themselves. thus its not a true creation of God. when man ignores the commandments of God and suffers aids or hiv or gonoreah, the suffer evil because it was a designed genetic punishment.
its like saying a freedom fighter to the Colonialist is a good person but to the English they were terrrorists. just another thought

someone else answered:
He created that which BECAME evil!

This verse in Isaiah IS correct in that it means that that which God created something that BECAME evil. So, in that sense-God Did create evil. But not to begin with, as seen here:

Genesis 1:31 (New International Version)

31 God saw all that he had made, and it was very good. And there was evening, and there was morning—the sixth day.

The Hebrew translation does not say "evil"
It says God created "ra" which means "Sorrow or Calamity

evil Gives us a choice and a bal not all evil is bad God uses it for His glory and if we are going to have freewill we have to have a choice. but evil will always be used for God's most Holy and wise purpose and for the Good of those who love the Lord read Genesis 50:20
Source(s):
Genesis 50:20
Evil has never existed. Evil is an adjective, a word, nothing more. A simple way of describing cruelty. Merely just a point of view.

but Jay answers this:
If "God did not create evil" then what of the following?

Isaiah 45:7
I form the light, and create darkness: I make peace, and create evil: I the LORD do all these things.

Exodus 32:14
And the LORD repented of the evil which he thought to do unto his people.

Joshua 23:15
Therefore it shall come to pass, that as all good things are come upon you, which the LORD your God promised you; so shall the LORD bring upon you all evil things.

Judges 9:23
Then God sent an evil spirit

1 Samuel 16:14
But the Spirit of the LORD departed from Saul, and an evil spirit from the LORD troubled him.

2 Samuel 12:11
Thus saith the LORD, Behold, I will raise up evil against thee out of thine own house

1 Kings 9:9
...therefore hath the LORD brought upon them all this evil.

1 Kings 14:10
Therefore, behold, I will bring evil upon the house of Jeroboam

2 Kings 6:33 ...Behold, this evil is of the LORD;

2 Kings 21:12 Therefore thus saith the LORD God of Israel, Behold, I am bringing such evil upon Jerusalem and Judah, that whosoever heareth of it, both his ears shall tingle.

2 Kings 22:16 Thus saith the LORD, Behold, I will bring evil upon this place

2 Chronicles 34:24 Thus saith the LORD, Behold, I will bring evil upon this place, and upon the inhabitants thereof...

Nehemiah 13:18 Did not your fathers thus, and did not our God bring all this evil upon us, and upon this city?

Jeremiah 4:6 Set up the standard toward Zion: retire, stay not: for I will bring evil from the north, and a great destruction.

Jeremiah 6:19 Hear, O earth: behold, I will bring evil upon this people

Jeremiah 11:11 Therefore thus saith the LORD, Behold, I will bring evil upon them

Micah 1:12 .... evil came down from the LORD

lynn says this:
Nonsense. God did not and can not create evil. The very idea is ridiculous. Who you gonna believe? Me? Or some guy named Isaiah?

jesus is lord said this:
In my Bible Isaiah 45:7 says 'I form the light and create the dark'
So as the dark is the absence of light, so evil is the absence of good.
God did not create evil.
He created the light and is the light.

CJ said this:
Here's the verse, for those too .. ummm... "busy" to look it up yourselves:

Isaiah 45:7 I form the light, and create darkness: I make peace, and create evil: I the LORD do all these things.


If God created all things, then he most certainly created evil.

Buddha said: If God allows evil to exist, then he cannot be good. And if hecannot do anything about evil, then he cannot be God.

ross said this:
Until you realize He didn't, we did, we think He did.

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