...thing that tends to confirm me in rejecting it. as unscriptural. For instance, that passage in Amos, " Shall there be evil in a city and the Lord hath not done it ?'" Amos iii, G. Mr. TUCKER gives this passage a most notorious stretch; as in the following sentence...

...have taken nothing at all ? 6 Shall a trumpet be blown in the city, and the people 'not be afraid ? e LORD of hosts. But ye said, Wherein shall we return ? 8 f 1 7 Surely the Lord GOD will do nothing, but he revealeth his secret unto his servants the prophets....

...and antagonist of God, is in direct contradiction to the most express declarations of Holy Writ. " Shall there be evil in a city, and the Lord hath not done it ? Amos, iii. 6. " / make peace and create evil" Isa. xlv. 7. This is the deep mystery of the abyss...

...spectacle of desolation and ruin ! " Shall a trumpet be blown in the city and the people not be afraid 1 Shall there be evil in a city, and the Lord hath not done it '.'" " The lion hath roared ; who will not fear 1 With God is terrible majesty : men do therefore fear...

...deceptively still waters of English academia. I shall miss them all very much. Oxford, 22 March, 1975 Shall there be evil in a city, and the Lord hath not done it? Amos 3:6 I INTRODUCTION: THE PROBLEM OF EVIL 1. The Nature of Theodicy Theodicy, the term used to designate...

...create evil; I am the Lord, that doeth all these things." (Isaiah 45:5,6,7). Again, we read in Amos 3:6, "Shall there be evil in a city, and the Lord hath not done it?" Seers are always courageous. That is one reason for their careful observation of the rule of silence....

...things." Isaiah 45:7 "The Lord hath forsaken the earth, and the Lord seeth not." Ezekiel 8:12; 9:9 "Shall there be evil in a city, and the Lord hath not done it?" Amos 3:6 These and other passages prove that the saints of old did not dwell on any secondary causes....

...and have taken nothing at all? Shall a trumpet be blown in the city, and the people not be afraid? Shall there be evil in a city, and the Lord hath not done it?" Amos 3:5-6 These are quite simple questions with quite obvious answers to which any rational person...

...result that in Israel even disasters and illness are much more firmly traced back to Yahweh himself: "shall there be evil in a city, and the Lord hath not done it?" says Amos (3:6). Good and evil both come from Yahweh; evil is the punishment resulting from his wrath....

...45:5-7). Amos 3:6 is equally direct in its description of God's metaphysical relationship to evil: Shall there be evil in a city, and the Lord hath not done it? These verses make it clear that, for better or for worse, God is somehow ultimately responsible for...