{"id":7677,"date":"2020-03-09T15:35:29","date_gmt":"2020-03-09T19:35:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pathway2truth.com\/wp\/?p=7677"},"modified":"2020-03-09T15:35:29","modified_gmt":"2020-03-09T19:35:29","slug":"ezekiel-2025-are-gods-statutes-evil","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pathway2truth.com\/wp\/ezekiel-2025-are-gods-statutes-evil\/","title":{"rendered":"Ezekiel 20:25\u2014Are God\u2019s statutes evil?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p lang=\"en-US\"><strong>Problem:<\/strong> Ezekiel tells us that God \u201cgave them up to statutes that were not good, and judgments by which they could not live.\u201d However, the Bible declares that God\u2019s laws are perfect and holy (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.biblegateway.com\/passage\/?version=NKJV&amp;search=Le11.45\">Lev. 11:45<\/a>; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.biblegateway.com\/passage\/?version=NKJV&amp;search=Ps19.7\">Ps. 19:7<\/a>; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.biblegateway.com\/passage\/?version=NKJV&amp;search=Ro7.7\">Rom. 7:7<\/a>).<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en-US\"><!--more--><\/p>\n<p lang=\"en-US\"><strong>Solution:<\/strong> First of all, Ezekiel is probably not referring to the laws of God, but to pagan statutes to which God turned over His people when they disobeyed His holy law. Notice the text says, God also gave them up to statutes that were not good because \u201cthey rebelled against Me\u201d (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.biblegateway.com\/passage\/?version=NKJV&amp;search=Eze20.21\">20:21<\/a>).<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en-US\">Second, there is a sense in which God\u2019s holy law can be said to be not good, namely, disobedience to it brings evil results. The Apostle Paul put it this way: \u201cIs the law sin? Certainly not! &#8230; But sin, taking opportunity by the commandment, produced in me all manner of evil desire. For apart from the law sin was dead\u201d (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.biblegateway.com\/passage\/?version=NKJV&amp;search=Ro7.7-8\">Rom. 7:7\u20138<\/a>). That is, the purpose of the law is good (namely, to reveal God\u2019s righteousness), but the result to the law is evil (since it is the occasion of man\u2019s sinfulness).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Problem: Ezekiel tells us that God \u201cgave them up to statutes that were not good, and judgments by which they could not live.\u201d However, the Bible declares that God\u2019s laws are perfect and holy (Lev. 11:45; Ps. 19:7; Rom. 7:7).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7677","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bible-errors","no-thumb"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pathway2truth.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7677","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pathway2truth.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pathway2truth.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pathway2truth.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pathway2truth.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7677"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/pathway2truth.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7677\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pathway2truth.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7677"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pathway2truth.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7677"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pathway2truth.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7677"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}