What God has given to us through the apostle John

me and a friend are doing a study on John, and yesterday we talked about verses 1-5. These verses are amazing if you dig into there meaning. 

(KJV)

Joh 1:1  In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. 

Joh 1:2  The same was in the beginning with God. 

Joh 1:3  All things were made by him; and without him was not any thing made that was made. 

Joh 1:4  In him was life; and the life was the light of men. 

Joh 1:5  And the light shineth in darkness; and the darkness comprehended it not. 

in essence these are talking about Jesus, who is God, is with God, and he was there before time. Everything was made by him. Does this include sin, evil, mistakes? 

I do not believe so, because when God created the world he said all things were good, so does this mean that evil is good? the conclusion that I have come to is that all things that are evil, bad, sinful, are just broken perfection. Things that were perfect but were twisted by the author of lies: Satan. One verse that people use to say that God did create evil, is Isaiah 45:7 

Isa 45:7  I form the light, and create darkness: I make peace, and create evil: I the LORD do all these things. 

but the word evil can mean calamity, (natural disasters, or war, things that are not moral evil) or it can mean calamity. this is the definition from Strong's dictionary: 

H7451

רעה    רע

ra‛  râ‛âh

rah, raw-aw'

From H7489; bad or (as noun) evil (naturally or morally). This includes the second (feminine) form; as adjective or noun: - adversity, affliction, bad, calamity, + displease (-ure), distress, evil ([-favouredness], man, thing), + exceedingly, X great, grief (-vous), harm, heavy, hurt (-ful), ill (favoured), + mark, mischief, (-vous), misery, naught (-ty), noisome, + not please, sad (-ly), sore, sorrow, trouble, vex, wicked (-ly, -ness, one), worse (-st) wretchedness, wrong. [Including feminine ra’ah; as adjective or noun.]

  

and with my evidence I now rest my case. 

             

            Another thing I want to point out about this passage is that in Jesus is life, and from that life, came the light of men, and that light cannot be overtaken by darkness!!!! once we have life from Jesus we get light from him, which can not be overtaken by: sin, satan, the world or any such things. 

Praise God that we can not lose what he has given to us.