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still_unsure
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| Posted 7/12/2001 6:38 AM (GMT -6) |   | Isaiah 45:6-7
"That they may know from the rising of the sun, and from the west, that there is none beside me. I am the Lord, and there is none else.
I form the light, and create darkness: I make peace, and create evil: I the Lord do all these things." KJV
This may be a dumb question but what the heck does holiness mean? I have been thinking a bit about it, in relation to Mephi's non-omnibenevolence thing, lately and other than the word being a description of God, I don't understand it's meaning. The bible attributes holiness to things as diverse as hills! He tells us to "be holy as I am Holy". Does God's "holiness" place Him beyond such categories as "Good" or "Evil" ? Is Mephi's idea close to the truth? Anyone?
Rob
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Modes of Thought
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| Posted 7/12/2001 10:33 AM (GMT -6) | | Hi Rob, great question. Holiness literally means to be "set apart." For God this indicates the infinite qualtitative differenc between God and Creation, for things in Creation, this indicates those things God "sets apart" from the others in creation for God's purposes. It is not necessarily a moral term, at least not in origin. It takes on moral meaning when we are commanded to be holy as God is holy and what is revealed by God about God's behavior is that God is loving. Then to be loving as God is loving, and just as God is just (and so forth), IS to be holy as God is holy. Then our obedience becomes what sets us apart from the world. Even without our obedience, God has set us (the faithful) apart by identifying with us in Christ. So, we are set apart FROM the world AND set apart TO God (God now claims us as God's own and we claim God as our own), AND set apart FOR God's purposes which involve reaching out to the world. In these ways we are to be holy.
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Triskal
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| Posted 7/12/2001 5:19 PM (GMT -6) | | I have a question about that verse you quoted that is totally unrelated to the one you asked. What does it mean when it says that God "creates evil"? That seems very odd to me that it would say that. Anyone have a clue as to what that means?
In His Grip,
Matt
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Modes of Thought
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| Posted 7/13/2001 5:32 AM (GMT -6) | | Triskal, you may be interested in Dr. Boyd's dealing with that text on the website. You can get to it via the scripture index.
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