| Genesis doesn't contradict Colossians. What supports a reinterpretation of "by him all things were created" into "god created all good things"? I don't see any qualifications like that in the Colossians passage. Besides, saying that god only created good things (ignoring the fact for the moment that "good" is a very relative term) leaves open the question of who created the "bad" things. It also implies that god didn't create everything that exists.
The Genesis quote doesn't support the notion that god only created good things. "Good" was a post-creation assessment. God decided his work was "good". Compared to what and measured by what standard we're left to guess. Obviously it was whatever the people who wrote the Old Testament considered good. |