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Good and Evil

Question for today.  If you believe in God, do you believe He sends us good and evil?

We often credit Him with giving us good things–health, wealth, and love.  But we hesitate, it seems to me, to say He sends us bad things.  Why is that?

While you’re thinking, here’s a verse to ruminate on.  Isaiah 45:7 (NASB, italics mine): “The One forming light and creating darkness, causing well-being and creating calamity; I am the Lord who does all these.”

I’m aware that some people feel God sends us tests in various forms, but how do you figure out if what you’re going through is sent from God or just something that happened due to natural causes?  I’m thinking of the incident in the New Testament where Jesus’s disciples see a blind man and ask Jesus, “Rabbi, who sinned, this man or his parents, that he should be born blind?”  And Jesus answers, “It was neither that this man sinned, nor his parents; but it was in order that the works of God might be displayed in him.”

Huh.  So what do you think?  Does God send both?  Or are our definitions of good and evil too narrow?

[Post image: Ghent Altarpiece of Cain and Abel]

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