Martin Luther said the devil is God's devil! In light of this conversation one of my peers pointed out to me that Herbert Livingstone said, Isaiah 45:7 is often quoted as proof that God creates evil, “I form the light, and create darkness: I make peace, and create evil: I the Lord do all these things (KJV).” Sometimes this Hebrew word, raʿ (רַע) is sometimes translated as “disaster” (NASB), “trouble” (NIV), or “calamity” in an effort to lesson the force of the word. I looked up Isaiah 45:7 in the Apostolic Bible Polyglot. The Septuagint translates the word as bad things. This phrase has been translated as "evil" at times, and also in other ways. We should notice, however, that the Hebrew style of parallelism is being used when God says: "I form the light, and create darkness: I make peace , and create evil: I the LORD do all these things." So, if the translator/team used the word " peace ", then he will pit it against " evil " If the transl...