God Created Evil

I form the light, and create darkness: I make peace and create evil: I the Lord do all these things.

(Isaiah 45:7) KJV

Something that you may hear if you discuss religion with other people are questions like, Why does God allow evil to exist? It’s a really good question, but fortunately we have a really good answer.

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I Am the Light of Life

Then Jesus spoke to them again, saying, “I am the light of the world. He who follows Me shall not walk in darkness, but have the light of life.”

(John 8:12) NKJV

On the 7th day God rested from his work of creating. This may have been the last time that the world could have been described as very good. It was the peace before the storm. However now there was light and darkness, good and evil, up and down.

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Death-like shadow: וְצַלְמָֽוֶת – tsalmaveth

He setteth an end to darkness, and searcheth out all perfection: the stones of darkness, and the shadow of death.

(Job 28:3) KJV

Mass sinks in time, into stratified layers of sediment: a solid core on fire in the darkness, sunk in the shadow of death.

(Job 28:3) MP Technical Paraphrase

The shadow of death: וְצַלְמָֽוֶת – tsalmaveth [death-like shadow, deep shadow] meaning to roll or tumble down. i.e. sink, sinking in the shadow of death.

Death-like shadow: וְצַלְמָֽוֶת – tsalmaveth

  • Root not used; Arab. to be obscure, dark; Syr. to figure, delineate.
    1. to tingle, of the ears; trop. of the lips, to quiver, Hab. 3:16, Hiph. to tingle, 1 Sa. 3:11.
    2. Kal to roll or tumble down. i.e. sink, Ex. 15:10
    3. Kal to be shaded, dark, Ne. 13:19.
  • Hiph. to shadow, Eze. 31:3.

Davidson Analytical Hebrew and Chaldee Lexicon page DCXLV

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July 4th

Matty's Paradigm a unified theory of everything

Indeed it was Very Good

Then God saw everything that He had made, and indeed it was very good. So the evening and the morning were the sixth day.

(Genesis 1:31) NKJV

The fall of man and the corrupted state of creation aren’t the same thing. The universe had to be created in a corrupted state so that the fall of man could take place.

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Where Light Dwells

And they that be wise shall shine as the brightness of the firmament; and they that turn many to righteousness as the stars for ever and ever. (Daniel 12:3)

Do you know where the light comes from
or what the source of darkness is?
Can you show them how far to go,
or send them back again?

(Job 38:19-20) Good News Translation

Night results from the obstruction of light. To separate them God has to cause the darkness to accumulate into a ball at the center of creation. Night, technically, is most concentrated inside the Earth.

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