Does God create evil?

The thread on how the liberal idols of equality keep shattering before our eyes, sometimes with horrible and tragic consquences for innocent human beings, got into a discussion, first, about whether and how it’s proper to use a human catastrophe such as the chimpanzee attack in Connecticut to make a point, and, second, about whether God causes bad things to happen. In reply to the latter I said, following Augustine, that God wills only good. Ben W. then quoted a passage from Isaiah in which God says, “I make peace, and create evil: I the LORD do all these things.” How is the statement “I create evil,” to be understood? I took a stab at it.

Posted by Lawrence Auster at February 22, 2009 09:12 AM | Send