Does God Protect Us
From
Evil?
By Michael
A. H. Back
In the Lord's Prayer,
Jesus directs us to ask God to "deliver us from evil." Is
that accurate? Do we have a scriptural guarantee that God protects
His people from evil?
The word translated
"evil" is an adjective, NOT a noun. In Greek, when you use
the article with an adjective, with no noun present, the adjective
modifies an "implied noun." Thus, it should not say
"evil," ("evil" would be an abstract noun) it
should say, "the evil one" ("evil" is an
adjective describing someone or something). So Jesus is actually
directing us to ask God to "deliver us from the Evil One."
God never promises to
deliver us from all the evils of life, such as suffering, pain,
injury, death, etc., but He does definitely promise to deliver us
from the clutches of "the evil one."
