Isa 45:7  I form the light, and create darkness; I make peace, and create evil. I am Jehovah, that doeth all these things. ASV

Isa 45:7  I form the light, and create darkness: I make peace, and create evil: I the LORD do all these things. KJV

Isa 45:7  forming light, and creating darkness; making peace, and creating evil. I, Jehovah, do all these things. LITV

Isa 45:7  forming the light and creating darkness; making peace and creating evil. I Jehovah do all these things. MKJV
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                                     COMMENTARY

  Fidelity to the usage of words in their Scriptural contexts is critical.  In seeking to arrive at a proper understanding of Scripture it is wise to use Biblical terms in their Biblical meaning. Many mistakes in interpretation have occurred because a meaning, foreign to the analogy of Scripture, was packed into a Scriptural word or concept.

Example; "The Ten Commandments are the unchanging moral law of God binding on all men of all ages".
Such a proposition is the product of man's brain and is foreign to the Bible. Such false doctrine is the result of ignoring the principle of Analogy of Faith.

*Create; 'bara'; Same word used in Ge 1:1; God Created the heavens.

*Evil; 'ra'; Same word used twice in Ge 6:5; Wickedness of Man...Only Evil continually.  Of 620 usages It is mis-translated "calamity" once in the KJV. The lexicons do not give such a meaning to it . Do not be bamboozeled by such a bogus argument!

  Attempted escape hatch of "calamity" is a booby trap!
1. Of the modern versions the KJV is the only version that renders 'ra' as "calamities" in #Ps 141:5 . The ASV; NKJV; RSV; NASV; LIT; MKJV, all translate as Wicked or Evil.
2. There is another, separate Hebrew word that specifically means Calamity but the writer of Isaiah chose not to use it. Instead He used RA which in the vastness of Lexiconic evidence and word usage is correctly and properly rendered Evil and/or Wicked(ness). Never Calamity except once in #Ps 141...but as I said, this is a booby trap! 

  For the sake of argument let it be said that either translation is perfectly valid; i.e. Evil or Calamity. The fact that one chooses Calamity does not automatically disqualify Evil as a valid rendering. Was the holocaust a Calamity? He who answers no is a moron! The holocaust was indeed a "Calamity" brought upon the Jewish people and of course it was one of the most atrocious displays of evil the world has known! Except maybe for the WTC.

  Water always seeks its own level folks. To water down Isa 45:7 is to water down Ge 1:1 and Ge 6:5. Lots of people do a "tap dance" around this verse to make it deny the fact that God is the one who introduced evil into the creation. If He did not then who or what did? You say, "..." did. Then, "..." is equally ultimate with God and outside of His control, which is impossible! That’s dualism and dualism is anti-christ.

Qst; How did evil come into existence? Only one way anything comes into existence; it must be created! It was Conceived in the mind of God! It was the product of the sovereign Decree of God. In the control room of creation there’s buttons for everything that God wants to create. Where's the "evil" button? Who has that one? Satan you say? And who created Satan? God. If God created Satan not only knowing but Decreeing and Ordaining that he would be the "arch evil being" then God must have wanted evil. There's just no way you can push GOD out of the picture without denying the GOD of the Bible.

  Remember, the creation does -not- reflect the Character of God. That's panthiesm folks. Moreover nothing can come into being apart from the  active Decree of God.

  Here’s the ‘logical’ reasoning that lands people in false doctrine. They say if God created evil then He must be the author of sin. This assumes that anything God creates must share in His Character or attributes. If God creates evil then He must be evil. But such logic ends in absolute nonsense. We could just as well argue that, since God created a finite universe with a beginning and an end that He must be finite; He had a beginning and will have an end. Such is pure lunacy tho. God is not like His creation and does not share in any of the attributes of His creation and vic-a vers-a! God can create a bunny rabbit but that does not mean HE is a bunny rabbit. Logically this works out to;

p1 All things created by God are things that share His nature.
p2 The physical universe is created by God. .:
c1 The physical universe shares God’s nature.

This resolves to ‘God is a physical being’ which is absurd. This is arguing the attributes of creation back up to God and that’s pantheism folks! It identifies God with the creation. But God is not identified with the creation; He Transcends it.

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