Posted on 09/24/2022 9:27:48 PM PDT by OneVike
Humans create evil. God gave them free will to do so.
So the fact that Satan started committing evil before man was even created, doesn’t give you pause on that belief?
Doesn’t the Tree of Knowledge of Good snd Evil existing in the Garden of Eden predate man? I mean..if we’re getting literal, here.
Editor!!
Lmao!
Evil is not a thing in and of itself, but the absence of righteousness and, ultimately, (derivative) holiness which created being had in their original state.
The resolution of sin and therefore evil is to be conformed to the likeness of Christ by having holiness imputed to you on account of the indwelling of the Holy Spirit.
In our mortal lives though, we still have what has been called the body of death and it is still trying to get us to obey it rather than us obey the Holy Spirit— and I’m convinced that it will be a nice little moral / religious body of death if that’s what it takes to get us to obey it (I associate that with the works of wood, hay and stubble that are consumed in judgment vs those that do not perish which must come from actual obedience to the Holy Spirit).
When saints are perfected in resurrection then the body of death will be removed and the only nature that we will have is in accordance to the new birth.
Otherwise, the tree our parents ate from was the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, not just evil. In becoming merely moral beings they fell from the created derivative holiness they had possessed. They did not become as bad as bad can be instantly but merely capable of being bad.
Lacking holiness is mankind’s defect, what separates us from the Lord.
And having His Holiness imputed to us, being sealed by it, resolves the fall, ultimately in fact and not just positionally ... but even then it will remain His righteousness.
I believe these views are sustained by Scripture, including the truth that no one will be condemned because of what will be found in the books recording everything they did but only because their names are not found in the Lamb’s Book of Life.
Democrats?
Good is not the source of evil.
Good can not be the source of evil.
somebody who doesn’t have the option to be evil, can’t be good
without the possibility of being evil, there can be no “good”
good, requires the possibility of evil
Democrats.
They ruin everything they touch.
Pretty much sums it up.
God creates and provides life.
Evil is “Live” spelled backwards.
Evil is “Anti-Life.”
That’s about as simple as it gets.
(For the wise guys, I know that God is dog spelled backwards!)
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Democrats-
Pro-baby killing
Pro drug use
Anti-religion
Anti- family
Anti- freedom
What are the characteristics of evil again?
And Pro- Hatred
Pro- crime
Not editor.
But Romans 3:7 seems to be striving too justification.
Seeming that God is Truth, and the glory that abounds, I’m thinking He really does not need any body “making Him look good”.
Satan created Evil as he become prideful in himself and challenged God in his role as Creator thus was kicked out of Heaven with a 1/3 of his following Angels ...
Evil comes about when the God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob is not foremost in our minds, driving everything we do.
Evil is the absence of God in thought, deed and desire.
Perhaps it’s not so much a thing in and of itself, but a result of absence of God in one form or another?
I have often thought of human nature as a horse with a saddle on it. If God is not in the saddle, Satan is.
Satan’s mind drifted away from the thoughts of God, and focused on himself. The father of lies was born in that instant.
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