@Chris, 1 John 1:5 says �This then is the message which we have heard of him, and declare unto you, that God is light, and in him is no darkness at all.� So God is not the author of bad things.
But as people in the Old Testament had very little knowledge Satan, who is the author of evil, they attributed all; and the good, and the bad to God. And that is a Figure of Speech (way of expressing an idea that may be different from its literal meaning). And the Figure of Speech is called Idiom of Permission.
That Idiom is found in places like Matthew 6:13 where it says �And lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil: For thine is the kingdom, and the power, and the glory, for ever. Amen.�� Which would literally mean God may lead us into temptation; which the Bible denies God would do in James 1:13, as it says �Let no man say when he is tempted, I am tempted of God: for God cannot be tempted with evil, neither tempteth he any man:�
In fact the devil is responsible for all evil, and Jesus Christ made him known to the public (Church), Colossians 2:15. Satan can no more hide.
God bless you.
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1 John 1:5 says �This then is the message which we have heard of him, and declare unto you, that God is light, and in him is no darkness at all.� So God is not the author of bad things.
But as people in the Old Testament had very little knowledge Satan, who is the author of evil, they attributed all; and the good, and the bad to God. And that is a Figure of Speech (way of expressing an idea that may be different from its literal meaning). And the Figure of Speech is called Idiom of Permission.
That Idiom is found in places like Matthew 6:13 where it says �And lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil: For thine is the kingdom, and the power, and the glory, for ever. Amen.�� Which would literally mean God may lead us into temptation; which the Bible denies God would do in James 1:13, as it says �Let no man say when he is tempted, I am tempted of God: for God cannot be tempted with evil, neither tempteth he any man:�
In fact the devil is responsible for all evil, and Jesus Christ made him known to the public (Church), Colossians 2:15. Satan can no more hide.
God bless you.
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