Re: Poor-quality God -- and dishonest evangelism

stellaM wrote:
> Our purpose for being a Christian is to tell people about God, to refute
> the lies that Satan has spread about God for generations: God kills our
> innocent children and takes them to heaven; God brings bad things into our
> lives to watch us struggle to breathe like fish that missed the tide; God
> causes badness. Well, God is not responsible.

Yes, He is; read Isaiah 45:7 -- "I form the light, and create darkness:
I make peace, and create evil: I the LORD do all these [things]." (KJV)

NKJV uses "calamity" instead of "evil". But that verse is abundantly
clear that God *does* cause trouble, and your statement, while
pleasantly
optimistic, is not true to the Bible.

-- Jeffrey J. Sargent, jjsargent@xxxxxx


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