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I form the light, and create darkness; I make peace, and create evil. I am Yahweh, who does all these things.
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Evil Means Calamity, Not Sin
Commentators unanimously agree that when God says He 'creates evil,' He is not referring to moral evil or sin. The original Hebrew word is contrasted with 'peace' (shalom), which means prosperity and well-being. Therefore, 'evil' here means adversity, calamity, and hardship—like war or famine. God is asserting His control over both good times and bad times, not claiming to be the author of sin.
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18th Century
Presbyterian
I form the light, and create darkness - Light, in the Bible, is the emblem of knowledge, innocence, pure religion, and of prosperit…
19th Century
Anglican
I make peace, and create evil ... —The words have no bearing on the insoluble problem of what we call the origin of evil.…
Baptist
That they may know from the rising of the sun, and from the west, that there is none beside me. I am the LORD, and there is none else. I form t…
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16th Century
Protestant
Forming light. It is as if he had said that those who formerly were accustomed to ascribe everything either to fortune or to idols will ac…
17th Century
Reformed Baptist
I form the light, and create darkness Natural light, or that light which was produced at the first creation, and of which the sun i…
There is no God besides Jehovah. Nothing is done without Him. He makes peace, which here signifies all good; and He creates evil (not the evil of s…
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