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Something that confuses me about the bible.
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[quote:Anonymous Coward 71994152:MV8zODIxMDU5XzY4NjgwMzU3XzFGNUZFRUNB] [quote:Anonymous Coward 71994152:MV8zODIxMDU5XzY4NjgwMzQ2XzcxNDNFRjFE] [quote:Anonymous Coward 72205685:MV8zODIxMDU5XzY4NjgwMDMyXzNCMjkwMzlB] [quote:Anonymous Coward 71994152:MV8zODIxMDU5XzY4Njc5NzAxXzczMUFDRjNE] [quote:Anonymous Coward 76524840:MV8zODIxMDU5XzY4Njc5NDcxXzNFMURFN0Ez] [quote:Anonymous Coward 72205685:MV8zODIxMDU5XzY4Njc5NDQ4XzZDRUMwQ0M0] [quote:Anonymous Coward 76524840:MV8zODIxMDU5XzY4Njc5MzY0XzUyMjMzNEU4] [quote:Anonymous Coward 76524803:MV8zODIxMDU5XzY4Njc5MDU5XzVGOUE1Q0Y=] [quote:Anonymous Coward 76524840:MV8zODIxMDU5XzY4Njc4ODQ4X0RENEE5MkM1] [quote:Harabec:MV8zODIxMDU5XzY4Q0VDMDU2] Romans 13 Let every soul be subject unto the higher powers. For there is no power but of God: [b]the powers that be are ordained of God.[/b] 2 Whosoever therefore resisteth the power, resisteth the ordinance of God: and they that resist shall receive to themselves damnation. I want to please God, but I'm having trouble accepting the part in bold. Can anyone shed any light on this? [/quote] Then this verse will blow your mind OP! [b]Isaiah 45:7[/b] I form the light, and create darkness: I make peace, and create evil: I the LORD do all these things. God forms the light. [b]God creates darkness[/b]. God makes peace. [b]God creates evil[/b]. Most religious minds can't get around this verse. They try to explain it away with flowery bullshit. It states what it states. God is not a liar. [/quote] Question: "Why does Isaiah 45:7 say that God created evil?" Answer: Isaiah 45:7 in the King James Version reads, “I form the light, and create darkness: I make peace, and create evil: I the LORD do all these things.” How does Isaiah 45:7 agree with the view that God did not create evil? There are two key facts that need to be considered. (1) The word translated “evil” is from a Hebrew word that means “adversity, affliction, calamity, distress, misery.” Notice how the other major English Bible translations render the word: “disaster” (NIV, HCSB), “calamity” (NKJV, NAS, ESV), and “woe” (NRSV). The Hebrew word can refer to moral evil, and often does have this meaning in the Hebrew Scriptures. However, due to the diversity of possible definitions, it is unwise to assume that “I create evil” in Isaiah 45:7 refers to God bringing moral evil into existence. [/quote] I rest my case: from above: [b]Most religious minds can't get around this verse. They try to explain it away with flowery bullshit. It states what it states. God is not a liar.[/b] Were your ancestors those that put the Cathars to death for believing the truth? [/quote] Did you hear what God did that time to the firstborn of Egypt when they were slave driving his children? Sent an angel right into Pharoh's palace and killed his firstborn son...right in front to them. So what is your point? [/quote] You made my point! So God does create evil! [/quote] They want to claim God created everything until they have to explain why all of the strife and conflict through out the history of man is God's fault due to the consequence of his creation. Then all of the suddenly you start hearing bullshit spin and backtracking that it's Satan's fault or that's not what was meant. Bullshit. I've never met an honest religious person who would come out and say, "There are some discrepancies in my beliefs". This is because most have thrown the entire meaning of their human existence into believing a lie the was created by ruling powers to manipulate a populace. To have the truth revealed would destroy them. That's how weak their minds and character are. Simple minded belief (faith) is a total failure from the get-go. It's a elixir for the feeble minded and fearful. [/quote] That is because if an honest Christian said "There are some discrepancies in my beliefs", that would make them a liar. God created everything including the evil. What seems to be the problem with that passage of scripture? Why are you wanting to call that out as a strike against God? Why are all the Christians trying to make bs excuses and apologies for God's Word as if they are somehow 'wrong'? How weak is your faith in the Word. These are the same Christians that are afraid to tell you that he is going to send the reapers to gather the same evil and bind them to be burned in the Lake of Fire. [i]Matt.13 [30] Let both grow together until the harvest: and in the time of harvest I will say to the reapers, Gather ye together first the tares, and bind them in bundles to burn them: but gather the wheat into my barn.[/i] [/quote] Your answers are derived from writings that were determined to be "politically correct" at the time. Have you examined any of the rejected writings for information on what other points of view may have been held at the time? You have no idea what a supreme creator, if there is one, wants. You have only what you personally believe might be the answer. But that's only the answer for YOU. The rest of us must find our own and I for one would appreciate if you would stop trying to stick yours up my ass. As far as I'm concerned, you don't know shit from shinola because you're just parroting the same shit everyone else is saying. Sure, bring down your Hellfire on me for not believing as you. Because that's exactly what you "Messiah" did. [/quote] My reply starts with "Your answers" Nice quoting GLP. [/quote]
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Romans 13 Let every soul be subject unto the higher powers. For there is no power but of God:
the powers that be are ordained of God.
2 Whosoever therefore resisteth the power, resisteth the ordinance of God: and they that resist shall receive to themselves damnation.
I want to please God, but I'm having trouble accepting the part in bold.
Can anyone shed any light on this?
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