Can God commit an Evil Act?

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

 

1 John 5:3 (Geneva Bible 1587)
[/b]For this is the loue of God, that we keepe his commandements:
and his commandements are not burdenous.[/b]

For all we know the perverse adults were to be killed
to avoid the spread of some STD (sexually transmitted
disease). The animals, women, children, and babies were
to be killed also for these pervert had contaminated
them with STDs also.

What ever the reason, God is a God of Love and
gives the right commandments.

 

He is also a God of justice.

His divine justice dictated that these people were to die at the hands of His children.

Therefore, it was not a sin.

God can not sin.

Can God do evil things? I guess it depends upon how you define the word.

Something that would seem evil to us, in that it may kill us, could be construed by God as justice, or even love.

Think about someone who finds out they have cancer. They die only a few weeks later without going through much pain or anything. While we might think that God allowing them to have cancer is evil, God would perceive it as justice, as we all inherit death sue to our sin in Adam, and love, because He did not allow the person to suffer a great deal.

 

The doctrine of the sovereignty
of God (sorry i need to go to bed now):

God can do anything He wants, any how He wants,
any why He wants, anywhere He wants,
using any who persons (or donkeys) He wants,
for any goals that He might want.

It is not up to us to put limits on God.
God does not have to keep His commandments
He gives to people. God had a perfectly
GOOD reason to tell His Children what to
do. We just don't know that that reason
was NOW.

 

(1Jo 1:5) This then is the message which we have heard of him, and declare unto you, that God is light, and in him is no darkness at all.

God in His essence is the very opposite of sin and evil.

Your logic is okay, but your premise is incorrect.

Who ever said that ALL killing is evil? There are numerous passages throughout the Bible where God commands the taking of human life (Genesis 9:6 comes immediately to mind.) I reject your initial premise of the evilness of killing, so I also reject your conclusion.

Your syllogism is not unlike Satan's to Eve at Eden. He started with an idea that restrictions
were bad. God's plan contained restrictions (do not eat of the fruit of the knowledge of good and evil), therefore God's plan was bad. Again, you can't deny Satan's logic, but his premise was way off.

In Deut 20 God is giving his plan for nation building. No attacks without conditions for non-canaanitish countries, and mercy to the defenseless, and utter destruction to the canaanites because of the paganess in the land of promise. God is sovereign. AMEN!

 

No, I'm saying the word evil that we use today has not really the same meaning as the word was used when translated in 1611, and especially in the first century.

Today, it usually connotates something done out of wickedness.

Back then, evil could mean that, as well as anything negatively affecting events or people.

Can weather be evil? I think today we would say, "no". That does not change the fact that weather does negatively affect our lives many times.

In the "old" days, weather could have classified as being evil because of those negative affects.

I'm not saying the word today is open to translation, but back then, like many words, it certainly was.

God is also called awful in the bible. Today we have only one meaning for that word...something really bad. Back then, it meant that He, or His voice in particular, was full of awe, wonder, marvel, etc.

Words or phrases such as these must be taken in context of the passage in which they were written and the time in which they were written. Otherwise, you get people thinking that God has sinned.

 

Babies are not innocent in God's mind.

They are just as sinful as anyone else.

 

No.

But, the ten commandments say "THOU shalt not kill." It says nothing about what God can do.

He is God. His will is perfect.

He is the opposite of sin, so His acts, by definition, can not be sinful.

The bible says that the potter has the power to destroy the clay, and the clay does not question the potter's actions.

We are made by Him, therefore He has absolute authority over what He will do with us.

Is it evil for God to allow people to go to hell?

No, because we all are deserving of it.

It's the same when He either directly kills people or orders them to be killed. We are all deserving of it, and He has authority to do what He wills with His creation without reservation and without being sinful.

 

[ March 18, 2005, 02:37 AM: Message edited by: here now ]

 

No, it is God's judgement on a people. He is perfect, His way is perfect, His ways and His thoughts are not the same as ours.

 

Do you deny it was murder? </font>[/QUOTE]murder is sin, (Rom 1:29)
God cannot sin,(1JN 1:5)
therefore it was not murder.

When one has a system to his theology, the hard sayings of scripture are easier to comprehend. When one tries to reason Gods thoughts he fails in his endeavor.

 

Amen, Bro. James. Well put.