God’s Work In Evil

Now that we’ve established the character and nature of God and seen that The Bible doesn’t shy away from attributing God’s control to evil actions of humans, we look at two other aspects of evil The Bible talks about.

In divine hardening, we see that God steers the desires of humans to accomplish His will and His plans. We see it with kings and groups of people and individuals. The biggest example is Pharaoh in the Old Testament. But also seen in Romans 1 with those who suppress the knowledge of God. On the opposite end, God restrains evil humanity from being as evil as we could be. The nature of man is set in evil and there’s no divine need to force a choice to do evil. Just the opposite, for any good to occur God must be the first cause.

We, of course, have to look at the biggest example of evil and see that God is in control. Not just of the individual actions and decisions that lead to the culmination of God’s plan of redemption but in every single action, life, and continuation of life to get everything and everyone at that moment. It would take some all-powerful divine Being to orchestrate such a thing! Well, do I have a Book for you!