Proverbs 16-18

[wolfpurplemoon]

OK, all of you who were telling me that God didn't make wicked/evil people, that it's just our choices that lead us to wicked paths, what about 16:4? "The LORD hath made all things for himself: yea, even the wicked for the day of evil." or "The Lord works everything for its own endst – even the wicked for the day of disaster." So God made wicked people that way, but punishes them anyway.

Kings seem to have the same demands as God, funny that...

Apparently, that 'pride goes before a fall' saying is a slight paraphrase of 16:18

17:28 could also be "It's better to be thought a fool than open your mouth and prove it."

I couldn't see anything new to pick out of Proverb 18, some of it is good, though common sense, advice.

Comments

[(Anonymous)]

Just another thought and experience to share with everyone... Isn't it true that even the apostle Paul who was taught the difference between good and evil said somewhere in the new testament that "the things he wants to do he can not do and the things he does not want to do he still does, because the fight is not among men or flesh and blood but by spiritual forces and principalities" so given this, my understanding is it doesn't become a choice. It becomes a war between God and Satan and we are merely pawns playing the civilians into two entities. Like a war between 2 countries with 2 presidents having thier own agenda and issues and we the civilians who just want to live in peace are now involved in a war that is not our choice.