Problem of Evil?

It’s a big deal for atheists and religionists to seem to be either denying God or wondering out loud how to solve unbeliever’s questions about God’s suitability to be chosen as God within the lie of human free will, within the implication that only non-creating speech exists in total reality and within the lie that is spiritual uniformitarianism. The question is not even one held forth to be of personal doubt but of ‘social’ doubt as a political doctrine against Christian governance and the suitability of Christians to supposedly ‘do’ pagan compassion as governance:  everyone who is an unbeliever is looking to ‘solve the question of evil’ for the other guy just before he votes.

There is no “problem of evil” question in Scripture. Even when God Says through Paul that there is a ‘mystery of lawlessness’ He also says He has revealed all things to us in Jesus Christ/Word of God.

1Corinthians 2:9-16  But as it is written, Eye hath not seen, nor ear heard, neither have entered into the heart of man, the things which God hath prepared for them that love him.  But God hath revealed them unto us by his Spirit: for the Spirit searcheth all things, yea, the deep things of God.  For what man knoweth the things of a man, save the spirit of man which is in him? even so the things of God knoweth no man, but the Spirit of God.  Now we have received, not the spirit of the world, but the spirit which is of God; that we might know the things that are freely given to us of God.  Which things also we speak, not in the words which man’s wisdom teacheth, but which the Holy Ghost teacheth; comparing spiritual things with spiritual.   But the natural man receiveth not the things of the Spirit of God: for they are foolishness unto him: neither can he know them, because they are spiritually discerned.  But he that is spiritual judgeth all things, yet he himself is judged of no man.  For who hath known the mind of the Lord, that he may instruct him? But we have the mind of Christ.

1. God is the only God. He created and creates evil.

Isaiah 45:5-7  I am the Lord, and there is none else: there is no God besides me: I girded thee, and thou hast not known me:  That they may know who are from the rising of the sun, and they who are from the west, that there is none besides me. I am the Lord, and there is none else:  I form the light, and create darkness, I make peace, and create evil: I the Lord that do all these things.

2. Non-creating speech/Anti-Christ will never understand Creating Speech/Jesus Christ. Period. That God creates as His Word/Christ and then at times destroys what He formerly created to make it better, wiser, stronger, more perfect in accordance with His will as He lives would never enter non-creating speech’s mind. To anti-Christ, who can’t create anything, things are the way they are and they will always be that way: spiritual uniformitarianism. In a uniformitarianistic model of Things, anything that disturbs uniformitarianism is a no go. Plainly, non-uniformitarian things in uniformitarianism won’t work.

3. God creates His own enemies. And in newly creating the earth and the heavens does away with His enemies. A lot of what is called ‘evil’ by anti-Christ is simply code of “negative emotions experienced” and has to do with God getting rid of the very enemies He created as enemies specifically to make His power known. He says that: verbatim.

Romans 9:18-26  Therefore he hath mercy on whom he will. And whom he will, he hardeneth.  Thou wilt say therefore to me: Why doth he then find fault? For who resisteth his will?  O man, who art thou that repliest against God? Shall the thing formed say to him that formed it: Why hast thou made me thus?  Or hath not the potter power over the clay, of the same lump, to make one vessel unto honour and another unto dishonour?  What if God, willing to shew his wrath and to make his power known, endured with much patience vessels of wrath, fitted for destruction,  That he might shew the riches of his glory on the vessels of mercy which he hath prepared unto glory?  Even us, whom also he hath called, not only of the Jews but also of the Gentiles.   As in Osee he saith: I will call that which was not my people, my people; and her that was not beloved, beloved; and her that had not obtained mercy; one that hath obtained mercy.  And it shalt be in the place where it was said unto them: you are not my people; there they shall be called the sons of the living God.

In creating enemies and in taking out of that whole population of enemies some to be saved and become sons and others to destroy, God:

1. demonstrates absolute power

2. does so in such a way to be perfectly understood in perpetuity as having done so ( the saved/newly created as sons in Jesus Christ have that memory forever and keep it as a testimony )

The lie going around that God can’t create something that is not of His Own Character and thus could not have created evil is simply a lie. That lie seeks to limit God to being powerful ..within His Own Character.

But that is not so. God creates evil and thereby proves He is unlimited expressly by creating something not of His Own Character. Doing so proves absolute and total power –exactly as He Said. “To make His power known..”   ..which goes far beyond “He could but He wouldn’t..”

Oh yes He did.

And He did so in a way to be remembered forever by the elect as a gift of remembrance and as being never understood by the reprobate as withholding from them the Christ / Truth. The true Christian/new creature in Jesus Christ as a witness of God’s power sees both and simultaneously that God indeed creates evil and part of that evil is that He causes those He has predetermined to be the reprobate as vessels of wrath to not know Him –to never understand the ‘why’ of their fate as a whole, much less in advance.  They always think they can turn to God when they want ..at the end of a philosophical road. That induces fear in me of God to watch what God does to them; a holy dread which we are commanded to have both as a creating act of God as Word and as the experience of what-was-created in working out that Word.

Proverbs 4:18,19  But the path of the just is as the shining light, that shineth more and more unto the perfect day.  The way of the wicked is as darkness: they know not at what they stumble.

Isaiah 43:10  You are my witnesses, saith the Lord, and my servant whom I have chosen: that you may know, and believe me, and understand that I myself am. Before me there was no God formed, and after me there shall be none.

Ephesians 2:2-7  Wherein in time past you walked according to the course of this world, according to the prince of the power of this air, of the spirit that now worketh on the children of unbelief:  In which also we all conversed in time past, in the desires of our flesh, fulfilling the will of the flesh and of our thoughts, and were by nature children of wrath, even as the rest;  But God (who is rich in mercy) for his exceeding charity wherewith he loved us.  Even when we were dead in sins, hath quickened us together in Christ (by whose grace you are saved) And hath raised us up together and hath made us sit together in the heavenly places, through Christ Jesus.  That he might shew in the ages to come the abundant riches of his grace, in his bounty towards us in Christ Jesus.

To be wicked and reprobate is to never know Christ. That the wicked make a living by making a public face of ‘trying to know God’ is no different than the wolves who pretend to be crippled only to get closer to the prey by saying they gave Calvinism a chance or are even ex-Calvinists, but were put off by the supposed haughty attitude of Calvinists who don’t do the emotional rubric or spiritual intelligence of a single speech ( non-creating speech/anti-Christ), uniformitarian, free willed model of total reality and have no sympathy for it whatsoever.

We as new creatures in Jesus Christ know Who and What the truth is: God. Part of that Truth/Christ is that the reprobate will be debating and philosophizing until they are cast into the lake of fire.

In the end, evil is simply God getting rid of His enemies and causing even the elect to suffer a small portion of that wrath in the flesh to carry with them the memory forever as a grace from God. To know it, to understand it, is not at all to say “It’s evil to even ask what evil is  ..once.”

Romans 8:18  For I reckon that the sufferings of this present time are not worthy to be compared with the glory which shall be revealed in us.

In the Name of Jesus Christ, Amen