Sunday, December 3, 2017

God Does Not Author Evil


James 1:13-14 “Let no one say when he is tempted, “I am tempted by God”; for God cannot be tempted by evil, nor does He Himself tempt anyone. But each one is tempted when he is drawn away by his own desires and enticed.”

I read that one of the often-used excuses for rejecting the God of the Bible is if God is omnipotent (“All-powerful” as the Bible teaches), and since evil exists in the world (as everyone can plainly see), then God must be the author of evil or incapable of preventing it. Either way, such reasoning insists, that kind of God is not worthy of worship.

If that logic were accurate, then most of the foundational truths of Scripture should be rejected. The Bible insists that the whole of reality was initially “very good”, but was quickly marred by Lucifer’s lie and Adam’s rebellion. The thrice-holy God, Lord God Almighty has no pleasure in wickedness, does not tempt any man with evil, and loves righteousness and hates wickedness. God does not cause evil. The Archenemy, Satan, is the father of untruth and was the source of the deception of Eve and the rebellion of Adam that brought sin and death into the creation.



Habakkuk 1:13a “You are of purer eyes than to behold evil, and cannot look on wickedness.”

The most precise description of the all-consuming character of the Creator God is that “God is light, and in Him is no darkness at all” (1 John 1:5). There can be no impurity or inconsistency within the nature of the Godhead. The holy separateness of the Creator is such that no thing, no concept, no act, no thought can ever cause a break within the absolute light of our eternal God. As darkness is the absence of light, evil is the absence of good. Know evil, No God. No evil / Know God. God is good all the time.


Blessings

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