1. What is the origin of evil?
In Genesis 1 and 2: God Created Evil.
In Isaiah 45:7, God Himself said, " … I create evil … " Here is that entire verse more precisely from the Hebrew:
“Making light and creating darkness; making peace and creating evil. I Yahweh doing every one of these things”.
God Himself said it … He Himself created/originated Evil.
Many have difficulty with the idea that the Good God could create evil, but knowing the origin of evil helps us see that
God and evil easily co-exist. The Hebrew word for evil is broad and it is used over 650 times in the Bible … the word
could mean calamity, and many of its synonyms, and it could mean evil and many of its synonyms. Believing His
Revelation literally, means that the Good God could and did create evil; I believe that He created and exists with
everything meant by that Hebrew word.
Theologically and philosophically, it is a difficult concept that the Good God created evil … most will not even suggest
that it could be true … but it is what the Bible says, and I would rather accept the literal truth of the Creator’s
revelation than risk arguing with the Creator of our universe.
The assumption that the Good God could never create evil is a wrong assumption … most of those who say it do not
know what God created when He created evil. The point here is that God revealed both … both that He is Good
(Psalm 100:5; etc.) and that He created evil … so we believe them both, as also described in Literal Lenses Book 2: Chapter 1.
Logically, since God is also Almighty, if there were any other source/origin of evil, our good God would be able to
defeat that source and eliminate that evil. Our world and our reality is created for us by God alone. There is no other
Creator in our reality. We believe the Good God, Who told us that He is the One creating evil. God created evil … we
now define the evil that God created.