Does God Experience Evil?
Brother Mike,
Thank you so much on your response. You know I fully understand your response. When the Lord started opening my eyes, I was afraid to believe because it all didn’t line up with ‘normal’ beliefs, so I was afraid that I might be a heretic. But then He started showing me some brethren that know the same thing especially you. Let me show you two things that He showed me that you used the exact same words that surprised me. He said to me that Babylon is the schoolmaster that brings us to Christ, and the following day I read it on your site. He showed me that man was formed of the dust, a dead soul, and the breath of God made him a living soul, a living creature, just in the same way the beasts were made. So man is essentially a beast who is being created in the image of God, but this cuts across the triune man that has been taught. I’m glad that you are so blessed with insights so deep but clear for all to see, and I thank you so much for your help.
The question I asked was seeing that is says “us” instead of man has become like “me”, who is the ‘us’? When I saw that, I suspected it’s also because He created evil, but I was thinking that the word “know” has the connotation of experiential knowledge. Those are the two main points of the question, if you can help me clarify them.
Thank you so much for your help, Brother Mike. I stand with you in your work for God and His elect.
Your brother,
A____
Hi A____
Thank you for all of your very encouraging words. No one knows as much about a creation as its creator. Yet it makes no sense at all to equate the Creator with His creation. The thing created is not capable of being the Creator. That is why, when everything is all said and done, our Creator will then submit Himself to His Creator:
Rev 3:14 And unto the angel of the church of the Laodiceans write; These things saith the Amen, the faithful and true witness, the beginning of the creation of God;
Just as we are created by Christ, and are therefore His sons, and His bride, so also Christ is both the Father’s son and the Father’s bride.
Rom 1:20 For the invisible things of him from the creation of the world are clearly seen, being understood by the things that are made, even his eternal power and Godhead; so that they are without excuse:
This verse is not a reference to the three parts of an egg or the three forms of water. It is a reference to the relationship of Christ to His father and our relationship to Christ. Look at what the scriptures reveal.Eph 5:22 Wives, submit yourselves unto your own husbands, as unto the Lord.
Eph 5:23 For the husband is the head of the wife, even as Christ is the head of the church: and he is the saviour of the body.
Eph 5:24 Therefore as the church is subject unto Christ, so [ let] the wives [ be] to their own husbands in every thing.
Eph 5:25 Husbands, love your wives, even as Christ also loved the church, and gave himself for it;
Eph 5:26 That he might sanctify and cleanse it with the washing of water by the word,
Eph 5:27 That he might present it to himself a glorious church, not having spot, or wrinkle, or any such thing; but that it should be holy and without blemish.Eph 5:28 So ought men to love their wives as their own bodies. He that loveth his wife loveth himself.
Eph 5:29 For no man ever yet hated his own flesh; but nourisheth and cherisheth it, even as the Lord the church:
Eph 5:30 For we are members of his body, of his flesh, and of his bones.
Eph 5:31 For this cause shall a man leave his father and mother, and shall be joined unto his wife, and they two shall be one flesh.
Eph 5:32 This is a great mystery: but I speak concerning Christ and the church.
Eph 5:33 Nevertheless let every one of you in particular so love his wife even as himself; and the wife [ see] that she reverence [ her] husband.All of this language about husbands and wives is really about “Christ and the church.” It is really all primarily about a spiritual subject instead of a physical subject. But look at the last verse:
Eph 5:33 Nevertheless let every one of you in particular so love his wife even as himself; and the wife see that she reverence her husband.
Even though this is primarily a spiritual statement, we still ought to acknowledge its physical application, and not ignore that part. Here it all is again, and this time Christ’s relationship to His Father is brought into the picture:
1Co 11:3 But I would have you know, that the head of every man is Christ; and the head of the woman is the man; and the head of Christ is God.
This is long after the resurrection, and we are being told that God is the head of Christ. Read the paper entitled The Head of Christ Is God, and read Is God a Trinity? on iswasandwillbe. com Christ submits to His head just as my wife submits to her head and just as I submit to Christ as my “Bridegroom.” Why is this so? It is because Christ is the channel for all life just as Eve is the mother of all of Adam’s children.
Gen 2:21 And the LORD God caused a deep sleep to fall upon Adam, and he slept: and he took one of his ribs, and closed up the flesh instead thereof;
Gen 2:22 And the rib, which the LORD God had taken from man, made he a woman, and brought her unto the man.
Gen 2:23 And Adam said, This [ is] now bone of my bones, and flesh of my flesh: she shall be called Woman, because she was taken out of Man.
Gen 2:24 Therefore shall a man leave his father and his mother, and shall cleave unto his wife: and they shall be one flesh.
This, too, is a great mystery which is really revealing Christ’s relationship to His Father:
1Co 11:3 But I would have you know, that the head of every man is Christ; and the head of the woman is the man; and the head of Christ is God.
1Co 11:12 For as the woman is of the man, even so is the man also by the woman; but all things of God.
The papers mentioned above will demonstrate scripturally that God the Father created Christ as the channel through which He created all the rest of His creation.
Joh 1:1 In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.
Joh 1:2 The same was in the beginning with God.
Joh 1:3 All things were made by him; and without him was not any thing made that was made.
Col 1:15 Who is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn of every creature:
Col 1:16 For by him were all things created, that are in heaven, and that are in earth, visible and invisible, whether [ they be] thrones, or dominions, or principalities, or powers: all things were created by him, and for him:
Col 1:17 And he is before all things, and by him all things consist.
That is why we see the word ‘us’ in Genesis; “Let us make man in our image.” God created Christ and BY Him the rest of His creation.
I hope this has helped to clarify these questions in your mind.
Mike