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Have You considered this from God's Perspective (Continued)

@LadyGrace

[quote]Ah, "Scientiaratio", your usual wanting to split hairs over a certain word and argue. Not going to happen. I've seen this question before from atheists/agnostics who just want to argue. I know you're line for line answers regarding the "meaning for devil" and the rest. Go nitpick someplace else. Something I've seen atheists use time and time again. Not interested in your usual twisting my words, either. Go argue with yourself or someone else.[/quote]

So called LadyGrace

Can't answer, then. Let me.

The word evil which appears at Isaiah 45:7, is ra, which can be translated as calamity, ugly, gloomy, bad, sad, disagreeable, and words to that effect. (https://www.biblestudytools.com/lexicons/hebrew/nas/ra.html) So, God created ra (punishment Adam's sin or for the flood). The word devil means slanderer/liar. The "Devil" is the father of the lie, and people who speak slander against God also fall under that category. And Lucifer, as I said in my response, means light bearer and isn't a name for Satan. The Hebrew word satan, by the way, means resistor or adversary. Like in Numbers 22:22 where God's righteous angel stood in the road to resist as an adversary to Balaam.
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@originnone Where is my god? Now, that's an interesting question. As you are probably aware, the Bible refers to the physical universe, as in the heavens. The ancient Hebrew word sha‧ma′yim is always in the plural. From an etymological perspective, the word means high or lofty. So, if you lift up your arms to extend your hands to the heavens, or for example, where the birds fly, where the clouds are. The Hebrew word ra‧qi′aʽ means expanse, which is the atmospheric region specifically. Also part of the heavens extends to the celestial bodies. Stars, sun, moon, planets, constellations etc.

The Bible says God, however, can't contain him. (1 Kings 8:27) The Bible doesn't give a direct answer as to why that is so it's a matter of theological speculation. It does say that God created heaven for spirit beings such as himself and the angels, and earth he created for man.