@daverod,
So from where does 'evil' come from? If there is no fallen 'holy' angel or fallen 'holy' angels, from where does the 'evil' come from?
"For out of the heart proceed evil thoughts, murders, adulteries, fornications, thefts, false witness, blasphemies: 20These are the things which defile a man: but to eat with unwashen hands defileth not a man." - Matthew 15:19-20
"And he said, That which cometh out of the man, that defileth the man. 21For from within, out of the heart of men, proceed evil thoughts, adulteries, fornications, murders, 22Thefts, covetousness, wickedness, deceit, lasciviousness, an evil eye, blasphemy, pride, foolishness: 23All these evil things come from within, and defile the man." - Mark 7:20-23
1 Chronicles 21:1 "And Satan stood up against Israel, and provoked David to number Israel."
And stood up:
5975. amad
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abide behind, appoint, arise, cease, confirm, continue, dwell, be employed,
Satan:
7854. satan
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adversary, Satan, withstand
against:
5921. al
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above, according to, after, as against, among, and, as, at,
Israel:
3478. Yisrael
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Israel
1 Chronicles 21:1-7
"And Satan stood up against Israel, and provoked David to number Israel. 2And David said to Joab and to the rulers of the people, Go, number Israel from Beersheba even to Dan; and bring the number of them to me, that I may know it. 3And Joab answered, The LORD make his people an hundred times so many more as they be: but, my lord the king, are they not all my lord's servants? why then doth my lord require this thing? why will he be a cause of trespass to Israel? 4Nevertheless the king's word prevailed against Joab. Wherefore Joab departed, and went throughout all Israel, and came to Jerusalem. 5And Joab gave the sum of the number of the people unto David. And all they of Israel were a thousand thousand and an hundred thousand men that drew sword: and Judah was four hundred threescore and ten thousand men that drew sword. 6But Levi and Benjamin counted he not among them: for the king's word was abominable to Joab.
7And God was displeased with this thing; therefore he smote Israel."