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I form the light, and create darkness: I make peace, and create evil: I the LORD do all these things
DID GOD CREAT EVIL?
Isaiah 45:7 (King James Version)
7I form the light, and create darkness: I make peace, and create evil: I the LORD do all these things.
The Egyptians thought of him as the conqueror of evil and lies by bringing light to this world and also as a symbol of good and truth. The hawk head represents the sun's 'flight' across the horizon. Ra is also shown in a boat called the 'Barque of Ages', sailing across the sky. At the end of the day, he was believed to be traveling in another boat through the Underworld. The sun disk on the head of this Sun God had a cobra around it. Ra was also known by different names representing the various positions of the sun in the sky.
Egyptian Sun God-RA
http://www.buzzle.com/articles/egyptian-sun-god-ra.html
Triumph of the Sun God
http://www.sacred-texts.com/egy/eml/eml15.htm
In ancient Egypt serpents were believed, especially by the sun worshippers, to be incarnations of evil spirits. 2 Darkness, the enemy of light, was symbolized as the Apep serpent, which is also referred to as the Great Worm. It rose up each night in the realms of Duat to destroy the sun bark and devour Ra. Occasionally it issued forth in daylight, and appeared in darkening thunder clouds, when a dread battle was waged and lightning spears were hurled against it. At dreaded eclipse it seemed to achieve temporary triumph. In this respect the Apep serpent resembled the Chinese dragon.
In hebrew evil = RA which is the SUN'
קום ra` 'evil, bad' - like tob which means 'good' ra` has a wide and non-specific range of meaning. Unlike tob, of which Amos makes average use, ra` is more frequent in this book. It partners tob at 5:14-15 and 9:4; in 3:6 it refers to the 'evil' or 'disaster' which God will bring as punishment (as it does at 9:4 and by implication at least 9:10); 5:13 and 6:3 in differing words refer to an 'evil time' or 'evil day'.
the Hebrew word for evil is RA!
http://www.crystalinks.com/ra.html
SymbolismRa shared many of his symbols with other solar deities, in particular Horus, usually depicted as a falcon. In artwork Ra primarily is depicted as a man wearing a pharaoh's crown (a sign of his leadership of the deities) and the wadjet sun disk above his head. Often he had a falcon's head, as does Horus. In later myths about Ra, the sun is portrayed differently according to the position of the sun in the sky.
This was an early theme in Egyptian myths, with different names assigned to the sun depending upon its position in the sky. At sunrise he was the young boy Khepri, at noon the falcon-headed man Harakhty, and at sunset the elder Atum. This constant aging was suggested by some later Egyptians as the reason Ra stayed separate from the world and let Osiris or Horus rule in his place. This idea often is coupled with the myth in which Isis is able to trick an elderly Ra, having ruled on earth as a human pharaoh, into revealing his secret name, and thus the secret of his power. Ra subsequently lost his power, resulting in the cult of Isis and Osiris to rise in importance.
Re: Did God Create Evil?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LORfMOWrlro
http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Isaiah+45%3A7&version=KJV
Isaiah 45:7 (King James Version)
7I form the light, and create darkness: I make peace, and create evil: I the LORD do all these things.
The Egyptians thought of him as the conqueror of evil and lies by bringing light to this world and also as a symbol of good and truth. The hawk head represents the sun's 'flight' across the horizon. Ra is also shown in a boat called the 'Barque of Ages', sailing across the sky. At the end of the day, he was believed to be traveling in another boat through the Underworld. The sun disk on the head of this Sun God had a cobra around it. Ra was also known by different names representing the various positions of the sun in the sky.
Egyptian Sun God-RA
http://www.buzzle.com/articles/egyptian-sun-god-ra.html
Triumph of the Sun God
http://www.sacred-texts.com/egy/eml/eml15.htm
In ancient Egypt serpents were believed, especially by the sun worshippers, to be incarnations of evil spirits. 2 Darkness, the enemy of light, was symbolized as the Apep serpent, which is also referred to as the Great Worm. It rose up each night in the realms of Duat to destroy the sun bark and devour Ra. Occasionally it issued forth in daylight, and appeared in darkening thunder clouds, when a dread battle was waged and lightning spears were hurled against it. At dreaded eclipse it seemed to achieve temporary triumph. In this respect the Apep serpent resembled the Chinese dragon.
In hebrew evil = RA which is the SUN'
קום ra` 'evil, bad' - like tob which means 'good' ra` has a wide and non-specific range of meaning. Unlike tob, of which Amos makes average use, ra` is more frequent in this book. It partners tob at 5:14-15 and 9:4; in 3:6 it refers to the 'evil' or 'disaster' which God will bring as punishment (as it does at 9:4 and by implication at least 9:10); 5:13 and 6:3 in differing words refer to an 'evil time' or 'evil day'.
the Hebrew word for evil is RA!
http://www.crystalinks.com/ra.html
SymbolismRa shared many of his symbols with other solar deities, in particular Horus, usually depicted as a falcon. In artwork Ra primarily is depicted as a man wearing a pharaoh's crown (a sign of his leadership of the deities) and the wadjet sun disk above his head. Often he had a falcon's head, as does Horus. In later myths about Ra, the sun is portrayed differently according to the position of the sun in the sky.
This was an early theme in Egyptian myths, with different names assigned to the sun depending upon its position in the sky. At sunrise he was the young boy Khepri, at noon the falcon-headed man Harakhty, and at sunset the elder Atum. This constant aging was suggested by some later Egyptians as the reason Ra stayed separate from the world and let Osiris or Horus rule in his place. This idea often is coupled with the myth in which Isis is able to trick an elderly Ra, having ruled on earth as a human pharaoh, into revealing his secret name, and thus the secret of his power. Ra subsequently lost his power, resulting in the cult of Isis and Osiris to rise in importance.
Re: Did God Create Evil?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LORfMOWrlro
http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Isaiah+45%3A7&version=KJV
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