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Why does God, according to his own words, "create evil"?
At the outset, we need to grasp the significance of the sentence preceding the one you quoted:
There is none beside me. I am the Lord, and there is none else.
This is the Lord God Almighty, creator ...
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Why does God, according to his own words, "create evil"?
This explanation is extracted from the New English Translation version:
God is ultimately sovereign over his creation, including mankind and
nations, in accordance with his sovereign will, he can ...
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Does the false prophet cause the spirit of Satan to move into the image to give it life?
It is Satan himself who causes the arising of the beast from the sea, the beast from the earth, the false prophet, and the making of the image. Satan gives rise to those means of getting his wicked ...
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According to Catholicism, who is the leader of devils?
TL;DR
All four Bible citations talk about the same devil, as Satan, Lucifer, and Beelzebub are different personalities (and names) of the same devil according to the Roman Catholic tradition,[citation ...
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