Biblical Hebrew Forum

["Lisbeth S. Fried" <lizfried AT umich.edu>]

Dear Harold,
Are not disasters evil??? What about the Tsunami, which killed over 300,000
men, women, children, babies? You say that God as only good must have some
ulterior good motive for killing all those people? If God has free will,
acts, is a moral agent, and commits disaster, then he also does evil, as he
is quoted as saying.
Best,
Liz Fried
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> HH: God says that he creates evil, so of course you can say that. But
> clearly moral evil is due to moral agents, and God as a moral agent does
> not produce moral evil because he is holy. However, angels and men do
> produce moral evil by contravening God's good will.
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> HH: Right, but I think Isa 45:7 is using the term "evil" in the sense of
> "disaster." I understand what you are saying about moral evil being a
> by-product of God's creation of the world. However, it was not a
> necessary by-product, since it is due to the free will choices of moral
> beings. He was not the direct Creator of moral evil, since it arose
> through angels and human beings.
> 
> Yours,
> Harold Holmyard
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