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doomguy93
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First off, stop reading wacky Ye Olde English translations like Douay-Rheims (no offense to those who actually read Douay-Rheims ¯_(ツ)_/¯) and try one that will illuminate and supplement your knowledge of the Word. Here’s that exact same verse you cited (Isaiah 45:7) in a Modern English translation:
“I create both light and darkness/I bring both blessing and disaster/I, the LORD, do all these things.” (GNT)
Key translation discrepancy there: “disaster” instead of “evil.” This is the same as the King James and Douay-Rheims translations of Exodus 32:14, which say “God repented of this evil” even though we know that that’s an inherently blasphemous statement. God is not evil and cannot do evil. He is literally incapable of it in any case. And he CERTAINLY doesn’t “repent”. God has no confessor. If he did, that would be a pretty sad excuse for a god. It would mean God makes massive, horrible mistakes and needs to make amends for them. Seriously, that’s not a god. Modern translations appropriately render it in some fashion as “God reconsidered his threat,” “decided not to bring this disaster,” etc. God says in Revelation that He WILL bring “disaster” on the wicked during the last days. Very violent disaster. He will rain hailstones and send untold armies of scorpions and cause the worst earthquakes that have ever been seen upon Earth since its creation. All in order to punish the wicked. Does this mean He is performing evil acts? Well, since this is His justice and vengeance against the wicked who have persecuted helpless humans and persecuted Christ all over again…no. Obviously not. This is the enemy. God gave them every chance for mercy until He just got sick of being rejected by those who will always hate Him. It becomes clear that they will never change and He will become sick of seeing His people persecuted and violated by unimaginable evil.
God, AGAIN, is not allowing Satan to do evil because He gets a big laff out of seeing evil things happening, He is not “the master troll” as I’ve heard some atheists label Him. He allows it because he is waiting for Satan and evil humans to turn back to Him. They continue to ignore His Word even though he’s left it in thousands of languages. There are surely only a handful of obscure languages that the Word of God has not been translated into…yet. Kim Jong-Un, Stephen Fry, Charles Manson, Marilyn Manson, every member of ISIS, Khalid Sheik Mohammed, those Aum Shimrikyo guys, and every other evil guy and hater of God you can think of in the entire world, in every language and culture since Jesus Christ have absolutely zero excuses for not believing in Jesus Christ, studying and loving and following His Word and preparing themselves for the return of our Lord and king and eternal life in God’s holy kingdom of unending goodness and righteousness. They are receiving chance after chance. God could end all of our lives with a single word from some God-language we could never wrap our heads around. The Earth would end and the Solar System would burn up and God could just start all over again. But he would rather extend mercy to us and wait for His Word to click in our heads and then we will start preparing and living holy lives.
/holy rant
“I create both light and darkness/I bring both blessing and disaster/I, the LORD, do all these things.” (GNT)
Key translation discrepancy there: “disaster” instead of “evil.” This is the same as the King James and Douay-Rheims translations of Exodus 32:14, which say “God repented of this evil” even though we know that that’s an inherently blasphemous statement. God is not evil and cannot do evil. He is literally incapable of it in any case. And he CERTAINLY doesn’t “repent”. God has no confessor. If he did, that would be a pretty sad excuse for a god. It would mean God makes massive, horrible mistakes and needs to make amends for them. Seriously, that’s not a god. Modern translations appropriately render it in some fashion as “God reconsidered his threat,” “decided not to bring this disaster,” etc. God says in Revelation that He WILL bring “disaster” on the wicked during the last days. Very violent disaster. He will rain hailstones and send untold armies of scorpions and cause the worst earthquakes that have ever been seen upon Earth since its creation. All in order to punish the wicked. Does this mean He is performing evil acts? Well, since this is His justice and vengeance against the wicked who have persecuted helpless humans and persecuted Christ all over again…no. Obviously not. This is the enemy. God gave them every chance for mercy until He just got sick of being rejected by those who will always hate Him. It becomes clear that they will never change and He will become sick of seeing His people persecuted and violated by unimaginable evil.
God, AGAIN, is not allowing Satan to do evil because He gets a big laff out of seeing evil things happening, He is not “the master troll” as I’ve heard some atheists label Him. He allows it because he is waiting for Satan and evil humans to turn back to Him. They continue to ignore His Word even though he’s left it in thousands of languages. There are surely only a handful of obscure languages that the Word of God has not been translated into…yet. Kim Jong-Un, Stephen Fry, Charles Manson, Marilyn Manson, every member of ISIS, Khalid Sheik Mohammed, those Aum Shimrikyo guys, and every other evil guy and hater of God you can think of in the entire world, in every language and culture since Jesus Christ have absolutely zero excuses for not believing in Jesus Christ, studying and loving and following His Word and preparing themselves for the return of our Lord and king and eternal life in God’s holy kingdom of unending goodness and righteousness. They are receiving chance after chance. God could end all of our lives with a single word from some God-language we could never wrap our heads around. The Earth would end and the Solar System would burn up and God could just start all over again. But he would rather extend mercy to us and wait for His Word to click in our heads and then we will start preparing and living holy lives.
/holy rant
