Two Voices · No. 07 of 30 · all the sheets
“I create evil”
Isaiah 45:7, and what modern Bibles made of it.
The Hebrew says evil. Jesus said a good tree cannot bear it.
The verses on the sheet, as text
Isaiah 45:7 · KJV
I form the light, and create darkness: I make peace, and create evil: I the LORD do all these things.
The Hebrew · oseh shalom u-vore ra
עֹשֶׂה שָׁלוֹם וּבוֹרֵא רָע
Ra is the word of the tree in Eden: “the tree of knowledge of good and evil” (Genesis 2:9).
Isaiah 45:7 · NIV
…I bring prosperity and create disaster; I, the LORD, do all these things.
Isaiah 45:7 · ESV
…I make well-being and create calamity; I am the LORD, who does all these things.
Luke 6:43 · KJV
For a good tree bringeth not forth corrupt fruit…
KJV, NIV and ESV as labelled; the Hebrew of Isaiah 45:7. Free to share; please leave the sheet as it is, with its credit.
If the two halves of your Bible don’t agree
You are not the first to notice. The second-century churches that read the Bible as two voices were burned out of history, and their case can be read again. Start with the free gospel they carried, or the book that sets the two gods side by side, verse by verse.
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