“Worthy are you, our Lord and God, the Holy One, to receive the glory, the honor, and the power, for you created all things, and because of your desire they existed, and were created!”
Every parasite and pathogen was deliberately created for the enjoyment of a benevolent designer.
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What current science says
The malaria parasite (Plasmodium falciparum) has killed more humans than any other organism in history — an estimated half of all humans who have ever lived. The bot fly larva burrows into living human skin and feeds on flesh for weeks. The candiru fish supposedly enters the urethras of swimmers. Parasitoid wasps lay eggs inside living caterpillars, and the larvae eat the host alive from the inside. These organisms evolved through natural selection — a blind process with no intent, no enjoyment, and no design. Claiming they were created 'for pleasure' either means the creator enjoys human suffering or the claim wasn't thought through.
What the text says
This comes from Revelation 4:11, which says 'thou hast created all things, and for thy pleasure they are and were created.' If taken literally, this means organisms like the malaria parasite (which kills roughly 600,000 people per year) were created for divine entertainment.
Three honest ways to read this passage
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As history
The text records how its authors understood the world with the knowledge they had. Read this way, a difference from modern science is a window into the ancient mind, not a failure.
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As accommodation
The text speaks to its first audience in their own terms, to make a point that isn't mainly about physics or biology. Read this way, the scientific detail is the vehicle, not the cargo.
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As contradiction
The text makes a claim about the physical world that modern findings dispute. Read this way, the difference is a genuine factual disagreement worth naming.
GEBible doesn't pick one of these for you. Each entry shows the passage, what it says, and what current science says — nothing more.