The Scriptures assert that God is Truth and has created all. Since Truth cannot be the creator of error, it follows that error, or evil, has neither reality nor power.
Humanity, when reasoning from the restricted perspective of the corporeal senses, may aver that error, evil, is a real entity, abounding throughout the whole economy of being. But in the supposed history of error down the ages, it is a truism that error repeats itself in its hatred of divine Truth and Love only until it finally yields to Truth and is exterminated.
The ancient Hebrew prophets encountered the enmity of the worshipers of false gods. Elijah, for example, fled for his life into the wilderness before the wrath of Queen Jezebel after he had discredited Baal in the eyes of the people. See I Kings 18:17—19:8. The Bible tells how Daniel, through the evil machinations of his fellow administrators, was thrown into a den of lions. See Dan., chap. 6. However, from the Biblical record we know that both Elijah and Daniel successfully exposed the impotence of evil through their understanding of and trust in the one God, good.
