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I apreciate the thought in your post. The new world translation remark was a joke. Actually the JW's believe the same as most, and I have had some very lively pow wows with a JW couple who come a callen on me pretty regular. It was not just the tree of knowledge, it was the tree of the knowledge of good and evil. Why does everyone continue to leave this fact out of thier posts? If God created the tree, didn't He also create its fruit? Where did the evil in the tree come from? The book don't say that the devil put evil in the tree, nor that he created it. Might give you the potential gig though. I believe the scripture when it says that God created all things, and if created all things is responsible for all things, and can do with all things as He pleases. Nothing can operate out side of the soveriegnty of God. He can do with evil as He pleases, because He created it [ or if you will, its potential]. Isaiah 45: (7) I form the light, and create darkness: I make peace, and create evil: I the LORD do all these things. Romans 9: 20) Nay but, O man, who art thou that repliest against God? Shall the thing formed say to him that formed it, Why hast thou made me thus? (21) Hath not the potter power over the clay, of the same lump to make one vessel unto honour, and another unto dishonour? (22) What if God, willing to shew his wrath, and to make his power known, endured with much longsuffering the vessels of wrath fitted to destruction: (23) And that he might make known the riches of his glory on the vessels of mercy, which he had afore prepared unto glory, (24) Even us, whom he hath called, not of the Jews only, but also of the Gentiles? |
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