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 co-exist smoothly. The Hebrew word for evil is broad and it is used often in the Bible …
the word could mean calamity, and many of its synonyms, as well as evil and many of its synonyms.
Believing His Revelation literally, means that the Good God could and did create evil;
He created and exists with everything meant by that Hebrew word.
The assumption that the Good God could never create evil is wrong … 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 in Literal Lenses Book 2: Chapter 1.
Logically, since God is also Almighty, if there were any other source/origin of evil,
God would be able to defeat that source and eliminate its 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.