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Meaning is for 18 year olds. I’m ready for peace.
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I form the light, and create darkness: I make peace, and create evil: I the Lord do all these things.
Isaiah 45:7
https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Isaiah+45%3A7&version=KJV
It’s right there in black and white for all the fundie literalists: God himself declares that he is the author of evil.
Was this written before or after christianity got hell?
Isaiah is part of the Torah, the Old Testament.
Written… roughly between 740 BC and 680 BC.
Hell, as modern many Christians imagine it (eternal place of torture amidst fire and flames for those that do not accept Jesus) does not exist in Judaism.
There were/are varying interpretations…
From the Torah itself, you have Sheol, which is basically like a dark and dreary cave, a place of forgetfulness, which everyone goes to, and your soul/consciousness just kind of slowly fades away into nothing.
Relying more on the Talmud, you also have Gehinnom, a place of punishment for sinners which can be a place of fire and brimstone, or it can be more like a place for reflection and review of your sins… usually your sould only goes there for 12 months.
Gehinnom, as a concept, largely came about after the Second Tenple was destroyed in 70 AD… Christians would use parts of this idea as a basis to make their idea of Hell worse and worse as time went on.
tl;dr Isaiah was written hundreds of years before the New Testament existed, probably about a thousand years, maybe more, before the modern Christian Hell was formulated.
Let the voice of reason chime
Let the pious vanish for all time
God’s face is hidden, all unseen
You can’t ask Him what it all meansHe was never on your side
God was never on your side
Let right or wrong alone decide
God was never on your side