No, that really is not all I nor anyone else needs to know. Religion promotes hideously abject EVIL messages and deeds in its own texts, perpetrated by its own god. That's hardly trying to stop it. It also fronts that which is EVIL with messages of love and forgiveness, which is a deceit and in itself an EVIL thing to do. Any God that is supposed to have created everything, including EVIL, is an EVIL monster. More like that's what you probably believe atheism believes. Evil is broadly defined as that which can or does cause harm, destruction or misfortune in thought or deed. Religion is obsessed with death cultisms of one type or another, where even wholly good and honest people, including children, are to be condemed with obnoxious threats of harm, destruction and misfortune by something the religious call hell simply because they don't accept the same absurd imaginary god concepts as you do. That's EVIL.
Yes, He is!! God traded places with us at the cross! God made Him who knew no sin to be sin on our behalf, so that in Him we might become the righteousness of God. 2 Corinthians 5:21
Stu said, "Any God who is supposed to have created everything, including EVIL, is an EVIL monster." Stu, you are confusing God with Satan. God has never said He created evil. God said that Satan is the originator of lies. God is so entirely good, that evil is completely repulsive to Him. Satan is the one who the Bible attributes evil to.
Just wanted to clarify this. I believe the KJV and a few other versions aren't translating the original manuscripts very well when they use the word "evil" in Isaiah 45:7. "I make peace, and create evil: I the LORD do all these things." Some other translations of this verse are as follows: I bring prosperity and create disaster; I, the LORD, do all these things. NIV I send good times and bad times. I, the LORD, am the one who does these things. NLT I make well-being and create calamity; I am the LORD, who does all these things. ESV I bring prosperity and create calamity. I, the LORD, do all these things. BSB The Bible says that the wages of sin is death. For God to judge sin is not the same as creating moral evil. GotQuestions.org puts it this way: https://www.gotquestions.org/Isaiah-45-7.html Isaiah 45:7 in the King James Version reads, “I form the light, and create darkness: I make peace, and create evil: I the LORD do all these things.” How does Isaiah 45:7 agree with the view that God did not create evil? There are two key facts that need to be considered. (1) The word translated “evil” is from a Hebrew word that means “adversity, affliction, calamity, distress, misery.” Notice how the other major English Bible translations render the word: “disaster” (NIV, HCSB), “calamity” (NKJV, NAS, ESV), and “woe” (NRSV). The Hebrew word can refer to moral evil, and often does have this meaning in the Hebrew Scriptures. However, due to the diversity of possible definitions, it is unwise to assume that “I create evil” in Isaiah 45:7 refers to God bringing moral evil into existence. (2) The context of Isaiah 45:7 makes it clear that something other than “bringing moral evil into existence” is in mind. The context of Isaiah 45:7 is God rewarding Israel for obedience and punishing Israel for disobedience. God pours out salvation and blessings on those whom He favors. God brings judgment on those who continue to rebel against Him. “Woe to him who quarrels with his Master” (Isaiah 45:9). That is the person to whom God brings “evil” and “disaster.” So, rather than saying that God created “moral evil,” Isaiah 45:7 is presenting a common theme of Scripture – that God brings disaster on those who continue in hard-hearted rebellion against Him. This is also a great article: https://www.gotquestions.org/did-God-create-evil.html At first it might seem that if God created all things, then evil must have been created by God. However, evil is not a “thing” like a rock or electricity. You cannot have a jar of evil. Evil has no existence of its own; it is really the absence of good. For example, holes are real but they only exist in something else. We call the absence of dirt a hole, but it cannot be separated from the dirt. So when God created, it is true that all He created was good. One of the good things God made was creatures who had the freedom to choose good. In order to have a real choice, God had to allow there to be something besides good to choose. So, God allowed these free angels and humans to choose good or reject good (evil). When a bad relationship exists between two good things we call that evil, but it does not become a “thing” that required God to create it. Perhaps a further illustration will help. If a person is asked, “Does cold exist?” the answer would likely be “yes.” However, this is incorrect. Cold does not exist. Cold is the absence of heat. Similarly, darkness does not exist; it is the absence of light. Evil is the absence of good, or better, evil is the absence of God. God did not have to create evil, but rather only allow for the absence of good. God did not create evil, but He does allow evil. If God had not allowed for the possibility of evil, both mankind and angels would be serving God out of obligation, not choice. He did not want “robots” that simply did what He wanted them to do because of their “programming.” God allowed for the possibility of evil so that we could genuinely have a free will and choose whether or not we wanted to serve Him. As finite human beings, we can never fully understand an infinite God (Romans 11:33-34). Sometimes we think we understand why God is doing something, only to find out later that it was for a different purpose than we originally thought. God looks at things from a holy, eternal perspective. We look at things from a sinful, earthly, and temporal perspective. Why did God put man on earth knowing that Adam and Eve would sin and therefore bring evil, death, and suffering on all mankind? Why didn’t He just create us all and leave us in heaven where we would be perfect and without suffering? These questions cannot be adequately answered this side of eternity. What we can know is whatever God does is holy and perfect and ultimately will glorify Him. God allowed for the possibility of evil in order to give us a true choice in regards to whether we worship Him. God did not create evil, but He allowed it. If He had not allowed evil, we would be worshiping Him out of obligation, not by a choice of our own will.
You can probably get a deeper and more accurate analysis by using the original Greek/Hebrew/Aramaic via a concordance; rather than simply comparing man's different translations.
Do explain. I don't see a clear, single, similarity that you could be alluding to. It's ambiguous right now. And before I respond, I'd want to be clear as to your point or points.