Is God the creator of evil? View all View original

This Bible contradiction is from the Skeptic's Annotated Bible.

Verses

Yes.

2 Kings 6:33 View context

And while he yet talked with them, behold, the messenger came down unto him: and he said, Behold, this evil [is] of the LORD; what should I wait for the LORD any longer?

Isaiah 45:7 View context

I form the light, and create darkness: I make peace, and create evil: I the LORD do all these [things].

Job 2:10 View context

But he said unto her, Thou speakest as one of the foolish women speaketh. What? shall we receive good at the hand of God, and shall we not receive evil? In all this did not Job sin with his lips.

Lamentations 3:38 View context

Out of the mouth of the most High proceedeth not evil and good?

Amos 3:6 View context

Shall a trumpet be blown in the city, and the people not be afraid? shall there be evil in a city, and the LORD hath not done [it]?

No.

Psalm 5:4 View context

For thou [art] not a God that hath pleasure in wickedness: neither shall evil dwell with thee.

1 John 4:8 View context

He that loveth not knoweth not God; for God is love.