Isaiah 41:21 Produce your cause, saith Jehovah; bring forward your arguments, saith the King of Jacob. 41:22 Let them bring them forward, and declare to us what shall happen: shew the former things, what they are, that we may give attention to them, and know the end of them; –or let us hear things to come: 41:23 declare the things that are to happen hereafter, that we may know that ye are gods;yea, do good, or do evil, that we may be astonished, and behold it together. 41:24 Behold, ye are less than nothing, and your work is of nought; an abomination is he that ‘chooseth’ you. …
Very many persons who claim to be Christians are in the habit and slavery of being spoken through by non-creating speech/human speech to say that when something good happens to them, as they perceive good to be in any given instance, within the confines of the lie of human free will with its constantly shifting morals, accusations and flattery, that God has blessed them. In this they think to give glory to God.
But when something they perceive to be evil happens to them suddenly, within the same lie of free will and their own intelligence, they are ‘taking responsibility’ as if to avoid ‘blaming God’.
Yet God does all the evil and the good.
There is only one God, not many and seeking to take credit for what He has done is evil and sin.
God expressly says He creates evil:
Isaiah 45:5 I am Jehovah, and there is none else; there is no God beside me: I girded thee, and thou hast not known me; 45:6 –that they may know from the rising of the sun, and from the going down, that there is none beside me. I am Jehovah, and there is none else; 45:7 forming the light and creating darkness, making peace and creating evil: I, Jehovah, do all these things. 45:8 Drop down, ye heavens, from above, and let the skies pour down righteousness; let the earth open, and let them bring forth salvation, and with it let righteousness spring up. I, Jehovah, have created it. 45:9 Woe unto him that striveth with his Maker! Let a potsherd strive with the potsherds of the earth. Shall the clay say to him that formeth it, What makest thou? Or thy work, He hath no hands? 45:10 Woe unto him that saith unto his father, What begettest thou? Or to his mother, What hast thou brought forth?
Ecclesiates 7:13 Consider the work of God; for who can make straight what he hath made crooked? 7:14 In the day of prosperity enjoy good, and in the day of adversity consider: God hath also set the one beside the other, to the end that man should find out nothing of what shall be after him.
Proverbs 16:4 Jehovah hath wrought everything on his own account, yea, even the wicked for the day of evil.
Job 12:16-20 With him is strength and effectual knowledge; the deceived and the deceiver are his. 12:17 He leadeth counsellors away spoiled, and judges maketh he fools; 12:18 He weakeneth the government of kings, and bindeth their loins with a fetter; 12:19 He leadeth priests away spoiled, and overthroweth the mighty; 12:20 He depriveth of speech the trusty, and taketh away the judgment of the elders;
Those that supposedly defend God’s honor by claiming people are to blame for their own calamity dishonor God and seek to make of themselves gods. They wish to ‘do good, or do evil’ that God may be astonished and supposedly already having done the evil on the day of calamity they are quite satisfied to take credit for the evil, because it makes them seem magnanimous and self-effacing within the lie of free will and in the common sense of non-creating speech to give glory for the good part to God and only take the credit for the bad part of their lives. What they really do is lie that they have free will and their plans didn’t work out, but the implication they make is that their plans will work out next time if they learn from the past ‘self-errors’ made independently from God. If Satan can’t take all the credit falsely, he’ll take half.
But God has done it all. He has worked it all out so that it is impossible to escape His fear for those He loves and impossible to obtain His fear for those He hates.
Ecclesiastes 3:14 I know that whatever God doeth, it shall be for ever; there is nothing to be added to it, nor anything to be taken from it; and God doeth it , that men should fear before him.
Isaiah 33:5 Jehovah is exalted; for he dwelleth on high: he hath filled Zion with justice and righteousness; 33:6 and he shall be the stability of thy times, the riches of salvation, wisdom and knowledge: the fear of Jehovah shall be your treasure.
Inside the Name of Jesus Christ, amen