Who created evil?

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Who created evil - "created" as in created mountains, turnips, and galaxies?

No one. Evil to me is a state of being where there is no righteousness or holiness to be found. It's the absence of holiness. Sort of like when you dig a hole. If there is no dirt, there is no hole. If there was no holiness, there would be no absence of it - or evil.

I think when God said in Isaiah that He "created evil", he isn't talking about the concept of wickedness and unholiness. He is talking about bringing calamity on those who deserve His wrath.

I could not agree more.

This syllogism illustrates that.

God created all things.
Evil is a thing.
God created evil.

If the first two premises were true the conclusion would be true. But the problem is that the second premise is false.

Evil is not a thing in the same way that, as you note, a mountain is a thing and a turnip is a thing.

Therefore is not created.

A hole is not really a thing. It is the absence of a thing- dirt.

Darkness is really not a thing. It is the absence of a thing- light.

Evil is not really a thing. It is the absence of something- good.

 

[Luke2427]

So i guess the translators of the king James version didn't know Greek or Hebrew, or they just made a mistake and put the word evil in that scripture.

The King James translators did make mistakes but that is not one of them.

Evil, IN ENGLISH, means all kinds of different things.

When a series of unfortunate events overtakes a family we say IN ENGLISH, "Evil befell that home for three years..."

We don't mean that SIN fell over it. We mean calamity.