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chocolatehellhole

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NoBacon

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I hate Christ fags more than any other type of person. You will not go to heaven because god rolls his eyes at horseshit.

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If God didn't want gays in your study group he would have called the holy book the Holy Straightble!
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In Isaiah 45:7

The word "create" is the same word used in Genesis 1:1

The word's other uses are almost exclusively related to the act of creation. As in Jeremiah 31:22, many other applications suggest trying something completely different. Some usages, like "choose," "cut down," "dispatch," "done," and "make fat," have entirely different meanings. Except for this passage, though, none of them seem to discuss producing something undesirable.
Moreover, "darkness" and "calamity" seem to me more like the absence of something else than things in and of themselves ("light" and "shalom"). "Create darkness" seems a bit of an oxymoron, but maybe I'm reading more modern metaphysics into this passage.
From St John Chrysostom, AD 407
I form the light and create darkness, I make peace and create calamity; I, the LORD, do all these things.' - Isaiah 45:7

For since we are accustomed to use the word evil to speak of calamities, and not only of thefts and adulteries, so the prophet allows this usage. On this basis the prophet can say, “There is no evil in the city that the Lord has not done.” This too, by means of Isaiah, God has made clear, when he said, “I am God who makes peace and creates evil,” again naming calamities evils. This evil also Christ hints at, thus saying to the disciples, “Sufficient for the day is the evil thereof,” that is to say, the affliction, the misery. It is manifest then on all sides that he here calls punishment an evil, even as we commonly do, affirming at the same time that God brings these on us. This affords us the greatest view of his providence. For the physician is not only to be commended when he leads forth the patient into gardens and meadows, nor even into baths and pools of water, nor yet when he sets before him a well-furnished table, but when he orders him to remain without food, when he oppresses him with hunger and lays him low with thirst, confines him to his bed, making his house a prison, depriving him of the very light and shadowing his room on all sides with curtains. When he cuts, and when he cauterizes and when he brings his bitter medicines, he is equally a physician. - "Concerning the Power of Demons 1.5"
 
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