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No and yes21% Voted for by mudgod, frndofyaweh, Energizer Bunny.
God punishes. Evil is caused by sin. God is allowing us to wallow in our sins. We like to believe that we are inherently good, but we are evil. (Jer 17:9 The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked: who can know it? ) + (Rom 8:7 Because the carnal mind is enmity against God: for it is not subject to the law of God, neither indeed can be. ) . Sin is the breaking of God's law, the ten commandments. (1Jo 3:4 Whosoever committeth sin transgresseth also the law: for sin is the transgression of the law. ) . We need to be striving to know and understand exactly what the law really says and apply it. We sin by commission AND omission.
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God so loved man21% Voted for by pnktrky, Energizer Bunny, Applehead.
that he gave him free will. we are the ones that happen to do evil. he so loved us that he said that you can do whatever you want... do your will. then later he said maybe i should tell them how to live there lives to in purest way possible. so then Jesus said one thing... LOVE. he allows evil to exist because he allows us to choose. so if he were to lets say go against all evil he would be against free will. and God is all about free will so he cant do that. all he can do is help enough for us not to notice. the fact that we can go against God means that either God doesnt exist... but God is the only one who can truely say that... or that he puts free will above it all and thats the reason that ppl dont see much of God. for if he came and showed himself undesputebley there would no longer be free will.
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NO SINi'll just express my opinion on this through my veiw of the garden of eden...Voted for by Crazyhead.
2 trees...
a tree of life, and a tree of knowledge...
if you eat from the tree of life you live forever, content in a dull, eventless, and VERY low-brow life...
if you eat from the tree of knowledge, you give people the right to choose, thus creating conflict, death, and "evil"...
nothing is really "evil"...
things are just different...
it's how we interperate them that matters...
like i, for instance, am glad we picked the tree of knowledge...
yes, it gave us death, unhappyness, and "evil"...
but by giving us the ability to think, did it not also give us more life than the tree of life would have?
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there isVoted for by Kazrith.
no such thing as evil. does an evil person think that they are evil? no, they think the so called "good guy" is evil. good and evil is merely a moral difference.
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More ideasVoted for by GaryCGibson.
This subject used a the premise of a two-course alternative, and there is more to it than that.
It may be useful to employ a contemporary analogy to explain some of the elements of the issues that make the question more complex than it seems intitially.Consider computer programs and their existence supporting phenomenal content, are the programs implicitly evil or alternatively good, or is it the content of the program manifested for example in a video game? Is the buxom tomb raider good, and the zombie's bad, or are the roles meaningful within the criterion in which they exist?***
Within various rules criterion or games theoretical applications the functions of various elements are perhaps designed by a designer or by circumstance to act within a specific allowable role. The values of elements in that paradigm are assigned values as good or evil perhaps in accord with the desired goals of the systems designer.
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Ijn cosmological physics certain roles of mass and energy formations are predetermined in accord with the intitial boundary conditions of 'the game'. Good and evil may be said for the inanimate or unconscious cosmos to be acting in accord with the plans or design of god if one accepts that paradigm. If not one might irrationally posit that there are no goals, good or evil and that no roles act to enable certain resolutions or mass and energy forms that are considered valuable by a particular designer of the universe.
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It has been of course written that sin is implicitly an element of space-time and mass-energy after the fall of mankind from an initial perfect condition. Certainly the laws of thermodynamics support the idea that an initial perfectly ordered lowesrt entropy condition for the pre-ssingularity existed followed by an increase of entropy universally.
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Sin means missing the mark, or an imperfection of the universe perhaps analogous to that of the pre-inflaton hypothetical Higgs field that permitted a destabilized state of the cosmos to repel itself and expand super-luminally as Brian Greene mentioned (the last point).
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In the Bible evil refers to bad natural occurrences while wickedness refers to bad human will. Evil such as hurricanes that wipe out badly planned cities and dwellings are a natural feature of space-time after the fall. Some of humanity will seek to accept the reconciling grace of God through the atoning work of His Son Jesus Christ. Others will attack the idea of attonement, of grace, of election and of sin in time and space and attempt to obfuscate the truth until its far too late.
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yes and noCults, officially recognized as "religion" cause evil. Think about it. Christians eagerly await the destruction of the earth, or the rapture, because they would be with god. So they don't have any incentive to make things better here in reality. War is a good thing for Christians because the closer we come to killing everyone the closer we come to being with god. They have no respect for anything or anyone unless their christian.Voted for by jackgillespie.
And don't tell me I'm generalizing because "you are your brothers keeper". So just keep your mouth shut if your going to say I'm not being fair.
We also wouldn't be at war in the middle east if not the Jews and Muslims. Their fighting over a chunk of dessert and don't care that their screwing over the rest of the world.
My own goal is to live, be happy, and do ass much as I can while I'm here. Their ultimate goal is to die. They plan their entire lives around their death. If you want to die then just go die and leave the rest of the world alone. -
BrainsI think God gave us the knowledge and power to make our own choices. He gave us free will and what we do with is is what we get. If some choose to kill and destroy, that is their right as humans, but God watches over them and rules eventually. We have a way of dealing with people like that and when the time comes for them to meet God I think he punishes them by not being there for them. We all choose our own fates and have the voice of God in us. Weather we listen or not is up to us, it's called a conscience.Voted for by LookingForSomething.
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No GodLearn some critical thinking people. Stop parroting the bad ideas of your parents.Voted for by ExpensiveThinker.
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TrialsEvil is a test from God to see if we will stand firm under Him.Voted for by dawmail333.
He wants us to let go and let Him.
If we really profess to follow Him, we must stand firm.
God did not create evil, He created, and gave everything free will.
The serpent decided to turn evil.
We are tempted, and act evil.
That is because God gave us free will, and we fall to temptation, as none of us are perfect.
God wants us to truly love Him: He doesn't force us.
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November 24, 2006
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God also create evil
Isaiah 45:7 (King James Version) King James Version (KJV) Public Domain 7 I form the light, and create darkness: I make peace, and create evil: I the LORD do all these things.Please register or login to comment! It's totally free