The Bible is arguably the most read book and also the most popular. But millions of people who read it sometimes do not reflect deeply and soberly on what it says. They read whole chapters/verses and move on.
My view is that if what every verse says were taken literally, as it should, Christians who have read Isaiah 45:7 and see evil all around us would stop blaming individuals they think are responsible and turn their attention to the creator of evil.
In plain English, Isaiah 45:7 says: “I form the light and create darkness: I make peace and create evil: I the Lord do all these things.”
You have to work hard to either misunderstand or misinterpret these words. The message’s meaning is unequivocal. As a noun, “evil” is defined by the Oxford Advanced Learners Dictionary as “a force that causes bad things to happen; morally bad behaviour”. As an adjective, it is defined as “(of people) enjoying harming others; morally bad and cruel.”
The third adjective-definition is even more telling. It says: “connected with the devil and with what is bad in the world.”
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There you have it! There is enough evil in the world to go round. Everywhere you look, you see evil. Killings, murders, rapes, domestic violence, wars—they all represent evil. Every day animals steal other animals’ lives to stay alive.
This evil is always blamed on humans, and it makes sense to blame them because we see them committing evil. But the verse quoted means humans are mere messengers.
Religious people keep saying that the world would be much better if humans lived the way their creator wants them to.
But people saying this tend to ignore the root cause of the problem. Who started it all? If God did not want evil, since it is a terrible thing, he would create an evil-less world. The fact that he went ahead to create evil and proclaims in the holy book that he is responsible means that he did what he thought best for humanity.
If we interpret the verse as we should, it means we do not have to prosecute murderers, rapists, robbers. The creator of evil decides when someone has to die. We do not have to jail a man who grabs a gun and kills another. The creator of evil is to blame.
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