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To: DoorGunner
Isaiah 45:7 I form the light, and create darkness: I make peace, and create evil: I the LORD do all these things.

Teaches that God is the creator of moral evil. It looks like I either misunderstood, or misremembered. Sorry about that.

Misunderstood. The verse does not say that God creates moral evil. Look at the form: He forms the light and creates the darkness (opposite of light). He makes peace and creates evil. What is the opposite of peace? War/violence/etc. The OT is full of examples of God bringing about war amongst people.

Agreed?

10 posted on 03/22/2004 8:10:43 PM PST by Frumanchu (I fear the sanctions of the Mediator far above the sanctions of the moderator...)
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To: Frumanchu
Agreed?

Not exactly. Nonetheless, I was not saying that I, personally, believed that; rather that I thought that certain FR Calvinists said that THEY did.

I am probably remembering their position (on this verse and the idea that God created evil) incorrectly.

DG

11 posted on 03/22/2004 10:05:47 PM PST by DoorGunner ("A KERRY Ain't Nothin' But a Sandwich")
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