Does God Send Evil To People
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God is a just God. He is perfect, above reproach, and ultimately in complete control over all his creation. It is his law: "What goes around comes around, what you give is what you get, and what you sow is what you reap." If you put out good, then eventually good will come back to you: however if you put out evil, then evil will come back upon you. If a soul is evil, then of course God will send their just deserts to them and he will repay them evil for their evil doings. |
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---Eloy on 3/28/08 |
Although God made hell and the eternal lake of fire, he did not make hell for the righteous, but instead he made it for the devil and for the disobedient evil-doers whom follow the devil. God made the glorious paradise for the good people, and the hoorible torments for the bad people. |
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---Eloy on 3/28/08 |
Although God made hell and the eternal lake of fire, he did not make hell for the righteous, but instead he made it for the devil and for the disobedient evil-doers whom follow the devil. God made the glorious paradise for the good people, and the horrible torments for the bad people. |
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---Eloy on 3/28/08 |
Evil and sin are not God's work, it is the work of men who pervert God's righteousness.
God taking off the restraint from wicked men is judgment, not sin or evil.
MMR |
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---Michelle on 3/27/08 |
Gods judgments, withdrawing His hand of protection is righteous. The righteous judgment of God is not an unlawful, sinful or evil act, it is exactly what man should expect of a righteous God. Righteous judgments.
MMR |
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---Michelle on 3/27/08 |
God can allow evil spirit to come upon an evil person close to being insanity or perhaps absolute insanity. When a person does not have the good spirit which is ofcourse God then that person is a real prey to the evil spirit which is ofcourse Satan. He may become fretful, and peevish, and discontented, timorous, and suspicious, trembling. |
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---catherine on 3/27/08 |
No. There is no evil in God, none whatsoever.
1 John 1: 5 God is light, in Him there is no darkness at all.
James 1:13 Let no man say when he is tempted, I am tempted of God: for God cannot be tempted with evil, neither tempteth He any man.
MMR |
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---Michelle on 3/27/08 |
Romans 1:18 The wrath of God is being revealed from heaven against all the godlessness and wickedness of men who suppress the truth by their wickedness, since what may be known about God is plain to them, because God has made it plain to them.
MMR |
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---Michelle on 3/27/08 |
For since the creation of the world God's eternal power -- being understood from what has been made, so that men are without excuse.
For although they knew God, they neither glorified Him as God nor gave thanks to Him, but their thinking became futile and their foolish hearts were darkened. Although they claimed to be wise, they became fools.
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---Michelle on 3/27/08 |
Here the first thing we need to notw ia that Saul had stopped listening to the Lord. As a result of his "backsliding" the Spirit of the Lord (H.S.) left him v14. Result: H.S. out, the devil"s spirit went in. Acc. to Math 12:30 it is either the one or the other that rules-no neutral ground. So what happened is that the Lord simply withdrew His protection rather than actually "sending" an evil spirit. TO BE CONT. |
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---Pierr7958 on 3/27/08 |
Hi read the blog "Explain Isaiah 45:7 the answers are there. Now 1 Samuel 16:14 But the Spirit of Yahueh departed from Saul, and an evil spirit from Yahushua troubled him. (Yahushua created Lucifer who became evil and so the evil was attributed by the translators to come from Yahushua). Whereas we KNOW Yahushua does not have an evil spirit. Hope this helps |
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---Toby on 6/7/07 |
God created evil, not the evil of sin, God is not the author of that, but the evil of punishment He did create. In 1 Samuel The Spirit of the Lord departed from him. When you drive the good spirit away you become a prey to the evil spirit. Fearfulness, trembling, fretful,timorous, discontented. |
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---catherine on 5/25/07 |
God requires simple obedience. All through the old Testament, he has rebuked his children to get them to do what He requires.He chastens those He loves. The evil you discribe is that while he is loving He becomes angry with the wicked and inflicts terrible punishment. The spirit from God was not one that was in Him but one that he created,namely satan. New Test tells that we are not tempted by God, but we are chastened(punished)if he loves us. |
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---jody on 5/25/07 |
God lifts a veil of protection and permits torment based on our actions, or even what we may need to withstand. Paul said he was buffeted by a demon so he would remain humble before God as he received revelations(2 Corinthians 12:7). A true Christian that does wrong and doesn't repent, God will lift his protection and let torment come. I've been a witness to that myself. It all boils down to what God allows. This is why we are in consant need of God and should always be yielding to His will everyday. |
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---Matthew on 5/25/07 |
I know that God allows things to happen. Saul fell from God (backslide) and when he did an evil spirit troubled him, and God allowed it to trouble him. God doesn't tell evil to attack us. But there are two ways evil can trouble us, 1. when one starts to backslide and then just gives up, 2. when someone is getting closer to God. Paul said when I do good, evil is always present. Satan tried every way for Job to curse God, satan took everything he had and God allowed it. But he never did he kept the faith. |
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---Rebecca_D on 5/25/07 |
Much OT text uses the word "evil" in a different context than is usually thought of by most people. It can either refer to enmity or rebellion against God, or it can refer to some sort of catastrophe, like plagues or floods. The first is what God and his people see as evil, the second is what man without God's guidance sees as "evil". |
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---david8576 on 4/23/06 |
3. all the parts in the whole nor the whole in all its parts. If at one glance we could take in the whole spectacle of the natural world and the complex actions of human history, we would see the world as one harmonious unit manifesting the glorious perfections of God. Most of you see a God waiting to see if you will love Him or not. If you don't He cast you out to hell. That He knows what is to come is true. There is no surprises from our actions. We don't defeat His purpose or plan. |
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---lupe2618 on 8/6/05 |
2. "Order is heaven's first law." From the divine viewpoint there is unbroken order and progress from the first beginnings of the creation to the end of the world and the ushering in of the Kingdom of heaven in all its glory. The divine purpose and plan is nowhere defeated nor interrupted; that which in many cases appears to us to be defeat is not really such but only appears to be, because our finite and imperfect nature does not permit us to see |
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---lupe2618 on 8/6/05 |
Some of you make God working through time. That He gives the Holy Spirit and then takes it away because a person changes his mind. That you become the Holy temple of God and then removes it, and the devil takes His place. God is infinite. His work is infinite. Nothing surprises Him. He knows the beginning and the end. You and I cannot change what He has prepared for His Church. If we could, we would be more powerful then Him. How could we be assured of anything if it depended on man? |
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---lupe2618 on 8/6/05 |
3. God didn't just realize that man was going to change his mind and acted on man's actions, for God does not learn as time passes. To Him there is no time, and He knows all. Every move He made in infinite time has a reason. If you go to 1 Kings 21: 29, you will read what God has to say about evil. Verse 29 "Seest thou how A'hab humbleth himself before Me? I will not bring the evil in his days: but in his son's days will I bring the evil upon his house." |
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---lupe2618 on 8/6/05 |
2. verse 23. "Now therefore, behold, the Lord hath put a lying spirit in the mouth of all these thy prophets, and the Lord hath spoken evil concerning thee." I do believe that God is sovereign and He can do anything He so wishes. The Holy Spirit left Saul, but it wasn't because of Saul's free will, It was because God ordained it to be that way. God knew what Saul was going to do way before the Spirit left him. God didn't just realize he was changing his mind and going against Him. |
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---lupe2618 on 8/6/05 |
To all that have answered on this subject I would like for you to go to 1 Kings 22:19-23, In verse 21 "and there came forth a spirit, and stood before the Lord, and said, I will persuade him. And the Lord said unto him, Wherewith? and he said, I will go forth, and I will be a lying spirit in the mouth of all his prophets. And He said, Thou shalt persuade him, and prevail also: go forth, and do so. |
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---lupe2618 on 8/6/05 |
Sometimes, it's necessary for God to afflict us. Otherwise, we might learn to rest our hearts in this world and forget about Him, and He knows that in the end that mistake would lead us to eternal misery and death. All He does, He does for love of us. In the KJV, anything painful or trying was sometimes described as an "evil", because the word had a broader meaning back then. |
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---Billy on 7/21/05 |
i see it like this, when the first man and woman sinned along with the serpent (which is Satan), God threw all three out of the garden into the earth, "to duke it out" so to speak, and the people who choose the Lord instead of continuing allegiance with Satan, and who endures up to the end will be restored back up to heaven. In the meantime count it as conditioning and tempering in the furnace of affliction; and i kid you not, we are each one at a very real war even to the death. |
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---Eloy on 7/21/05 |
God having the power to both good and evil,does not make Him evil. The flood of Noah's day was an evil on them, raining fire on Sodom and Gomorra,was an evil on them. Opening the ground and swollowing Korah Dathan and Abiram and thousands with them was an evil on them....None of this makes God "evil" |
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---1st_cliff on 7/20/05 |
cont from before
In Saul's, Job's, Pharo's case evil appears to proceed from the Lord it is actually the result of His withdrawing His protection and "allowing" the devil to have his way, fully (Saul/Pharoh) and partially (Job). For S+P it was respect for their freedom of choice (neg) and in J's case it was a matter of demonstratig that J was not serving because of some special favors but was excercising his freedom of choice (pos).
May God help us to me Jobs and not Sauls. |
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---Pierr7958 on 7/19/05 |
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