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My wife had watched in through 3 or 4 times.

She finally got me to watch and it's worth the time for some good cringy laughs, meme's and quotes to use lol. It's probably one of my favorite TV series.

My wife told me we should skip the Todd Packer included episodes and we did after trying to get through the first he was in.

There are other Hebrew words for "disaster" or "tragedy". This word means "evil".  Since you like opposites, In Genesis 2:9 it talks about the tree of knowledge. It is described as the "tree of the knowledge of good and evil". What's the Hebrew word in that verse? The very same word in Isaiah 45:7.  רָ֑ע. It's not the tree of knowledge of good and "disaster" or "calamity". It's the tree of knowledge of "good and evil".

Genesis 6:5  And the Lord saw that the evil of man was great in the earth...

Same Hebrew word.

Genesis 8:21 “Never again will I curse the ground because of man, even though every inclination of his heart is evil from his youth

Same word.

Gen 13:13 But the men of Sodom were evil

same word.

It's not an uncommon word in the bible, and the context is always like this.

Hey I got some homework to do now! Thanks for the helpful info Fenris

A batter translation from the Hebrew: עֹשֶׂ֥ה שָׁל֖וֹם וּב֣וֹרֵא רָ֑ע "I make peace and create evil" (which is how the KJV translates it). It also makes your point even more strongly that "everything serves a purpose".

I don't speak Hebrew...Being cajun some tell me I barely speak English

Just looking at the words that are used for the comparisons, we have light compared to darkness. These are shown to contrast as opposites.

Then following that comparison we have peace...and evil. That God makes peace and (moral) evil doesn't seem to be a like comparison of contrast.

To get a better understanding for myself of the word peace that is being compared, I checked BibleHub. For definitions of the word translated from shalom it gives: completeness, soundness, welfare, peace. I don't see a definition in this usage for (moral) good which would contrast with (moral) evil.

How would a translation to compare and contrast (moral) good and (moral) evil come from these words?

Does the Watchtower anoint y'all with oil and send you into the interwebs field to supply facts at regular intervals or on a more random basis?

Howdy!

Praying and will continue!

I live in SE Texas and have had a house flooded from Ike. Most of my family...parents, grandparents, aunts, uncles & cousins we're all flooded. Some had marsh mud 2' thick in their homes. The smell, oh the smell. Something I'll never forget.

Although, this was a season that God allowed me to know the reason. My dad had a very hard heart towards the church...something that happened as a kid. It was through watching the churches from the area pull together and churches from other areas come to minister that God began softening his heart for seeds to be planted.

Praying for y'all!

I'm also aware that the part of the human brain that causes people to limit sentence length or edit for succinctness

I read your posts and then hear the voice of my high school typing teacher telling the class to find the carriage return 

This could go in the quotable quotes thread, but...

"Now days, you not only have to explain the birds and the bees, but also the bees and the bees, the birds and the birds, the birds that used to be bees, the bees that used to be birds, the birds that look like bees, the bees that look like birds but still have a stinger..." - Unknown