[teejay]

>I apologise, and you are right, what you have typed is Isaiah
>46:6-7. I had a typo, what I meant to write was Isaiah 45:
>6-7: "I am the LORD, and there is none else. I form the light,
>and create darkness: I make peace, and create evil: I the LORD
>do all these things."
>
>So now that we have established that god, not me, created
>evil, what is your Christian apologetic explanation?

ATlian

Apology accepted brother. So now let see what you are up to with chapter 45:6-7. I knew that you were getting at that initially, but I wanted you to see your mistake. I was in no hurry to correct it coz I already knew what I would tell you in the event that you rectified that mistake.

Now that you did, let me start by saying I think your have one problem. You don’t do candid research and reading of the bible and that is why you continually paste biblical phrases and more phrases that you don’t clearly fathom.

I always advocate for thorough reading and study of the Bible word by word and book to book.

The verse that you pasted here means a very different thing from your pasted intention. By saying that “He God creates evil,” He simply means that he withdraws his mercy so that those who disregard his ways can do as they please. But we always find in the bible that every time God withdraws his mercy, the stubborn House of Jacob always welcomed lots of trouble(read evil).Thus evil is created in that way by God. Asiyesikia la mkuu hawezi tena kusema eti mkuu huyo ndiye anayemtumbukiza kwenye majuto, ila hila zake mbaya. Mkuu anapoamuwa kulegeza masharti yake ili kumpa anayeasi nafasi yake muasi, na kutazama kwa kando, basi hawezi kulamiwa tena, Mkuu. Kwa namna hiyo uovu unatendeka (ndiposa bibilia ikasema “I create evil”).

When reading the bible you must always take not of very important notes such as

- the time a word or phrase is uttered
- to whom it is directed
- and why it said to them that way.
- In addition, be careful to take note of the Culture under
which some biblical events occur.

That way you are not in danger of misreading or misquoting the holy texts.