Ever stop to wonder what’s in a simple day like today? There’s no guarantee that today will bring about anything substantial. In fact, today could be a big flop on the ground and no one would notice. I don’t know how any of that tends to work out though. It’s life right? Oh life, what are you even on about? I don’t understand you at times. It would be nice to be able to grasp something, even if it’s out of thin air, to understand and realize what that’s all about. But alas I cannot do that. It is life after all, and we cannot really understand anything that comes our way. If I had the ability to realize my own potential, I think I could benefit from it all. But I don’t know how to do that. It’s a shame really, to want to be able to do something with this life and then to be stuck without any reason for it? Yeah, no bueno.
In Isaiah 45:7 we
read:
I form the light, and create darkness: I make peace, and create evil:
I the Lord do all these things.
Then there’s a
footnote on evil, in LDS scripture, to the following scriptures:
Amos 3:6
Shall a trumpet be blown in the city, and the people not be afraid?
shall there be evil in a city, and the Lord hath not done it?
Alma 5:40
For I say unto you that whatsoever is good cometh from God, and
whatsoever is evil cometh from the devil.
Moroni 7:12
Wherefore, all things which are good cometh of God; and that which is
evil cometh of the devil; for the devil is an enemy unto God, and
fighteth against him continually, and inviteth and enticeth to sin,
and to do that which is evil continually.
Obviously one would
need to read these in context right? Because the way they’re laid
out here seems to state the Lord created evil. But then it states
that evil is from the devil. The Lord cannot be the devil right? (I
sure hope He wouldn’t be!) Either way, it is an interesting thing.
I mean, God did
create Lucifer aka Satan, but it was Satan who chose to have agency
to disobey God and lead 1/3rd of the hosts of heaven down to hell as
it were. So in effect, God didn’t create evil? He allowed it to
grow and flourish...until a time when it will be stopped. Someday
right?
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