On Sun, 20 Mar 2005 07:27:35 -0600 "Caroline
Wong" <
[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Dear Kevin;Thank you for your post on Strong's Hebrew
definitions of the word ra. Of the possible English choices the KJV
translator had when translating Isaiah 45:7, he picked the wrong one.
To say that God creates evil
is to go against what the bible teaches about God and it blasphemes God.
jt: Caroline if you are going
to correct Isaiah 45:7 then you will need to correct a lot of the other
Prophets & Patriarchs also for eg:
Job - "thou speakest as one of
the foolish women. What? shall we receive good at the hand of God and
shall we not receive evil? Job 2:10
Job - "his brethren, sisters
& aquaintances bemoaned him and comforted him over all the
evil that the Lord had brought upon him Job
42:11
Moses - "behold I set before
you this day a blessing and a curse" Deuteronomy 11:26 (the curse is
evil)
Moses - "See I have set
before thee this day life and good, and death and
evil" Deuteronomy 30:15
Amos - "thence will I command
the sword, and it shall slay them; and I will set mine eyes upon them
for evil, and not for good" Amos 9:4b
Jeremiah - "Therefore thus
saith the Lord of hosts, the God of Israel; Behold I will set my face
against you for evil, and to cut off all Judah"
Jer 44:11
Jonah - "God saw their works
that they turned from their evil way and God repented of the
evil that he had said that he would do unto them and he did
it not" Jonah 3:10.
This is what God's hate is like:
When I contemplate evil, nurse a grudge or
dwell in anger, He is not there. His presence is gone.
jt: I don't think so Caroline.
A born again believer has the Spirit of God indwelling and He does
not leave the first time they contemplate that stuff. The Lord knows
it was a way of life for many years and He is patient. However,
if it resumes as a way of life again after conversion - the
status quo may change.
This is because hate is the opposite of God's
being and when God hates, He is not there.
jt: Of course He is still there
and there are a lot of things God hates. This is why "the fear of the
Lord is to hate evil" Proverbs 8:13
Here are seven that he finds an
abomination (along with the abominations of the pagan nations
surrounding Israel, the ones that he drove out disinherited and had
killed) for starters:
1. He hates a proud
look
2. A lying tongue
3. Hands that shed innocent
blood
4. A heart that devises wicked
imaginations
5. Feet that are swift in
running to mischief
6. A false witness that speaks
lies
7. He that sows discord among
brethren
The problem is that I may end up entertaining
another presence, another person.
jt: Like another gospel along
with a different spirit?
David recognized this risk when he sinned
with Bathsheba and got found out. He saw what happened to Saul when the
Spirit left him. "Take not your Holy Spirit from me," he prayed (and
taught Israel to pray.)
jt: Israel couldn't pray the
above prayer Caroline. The Promise was not been sent (for the
people) until Pentecost. David had an anointing under the Old Covenant
because he was chosen to be Prophet and King.
Man's hate and man's wrath seek to destroy
and depersonalize the another person. It's a mistake to think of God's
hate and wrath in the same way. We hate according to who we are. Some
people take out baseball bats and get violent; some stew and mutter
curses. God, who is love, absents himself.
jt: Don't think so Carolyn; we
should always remember that we do not war against flesh and blood.
We war against wicked spirits in the heavenlies who inhabit flesh and
blood and God empowers us to win the battle. The sad part is that
most of the Church is not in it.
Grace and Peace,
Judyt
