You know, sometimes I come to question what exactly is good and what is evil since sometimes its a very fine line. I mean, sometimes I think, well, doing God's will is good, doing anything else is evil. Then again, that is too vague and is open to ALOT of interpretation. I mean, even christians squabble amongst themselves as to what is good and what isn't. So its really hard to use that as the basis as what is good and what is EVIL! Alot of societies also have different views as to what is good and evil. *eating pork in some cultures, among other things*
Now then, you may be thinking, why am I asking such a silly question. Well, I have trouble sometimes figuring out if the actions I wanna take *have taken* in my life are good or evil. The reason, I want to be considered a good person in my eyes and in the eyes of others. *then again, why do I care sometimes*
Actually, now that I think of it, I know what evil is. Evil is when you inflict harm or otherwise interfer with someone else's exsistance. *thus making the events of 9/11 evil* The problem is I have trouble with that word good. I mean, at first I use to think that word good meant doing stuff for others. Though practically, if you wanted to be considered good through works, its all a self-esteem trip and its selfish. So that eliminates that as the defination of good. THough that brings me to the question, is selfish evil? If its good, should we all apply it? If its evil, should we all try to do stuff for others just to get that label of good making what we are doing another form of selfishness. *anyone seeing the paradox I'm seeing*
Well, I have some more ideas on the subject, just I'm out of time at the moment. Was gonna put down some stuff about motivation and feeling pity for others. Anyways, i got to go, later.
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What is good? Well, the bible has the answer to that. Luke 18:19 And Jesus said to him, "Why do you call Me good? No one is good except God alone. That is the simple answer.
What is evil? Not so simple.
"It seems to me that evil is a kind of ultimate greed, a greed that is so all-encompassing that it can't ever see anything lovely, rare, or precious without wanting to possess it. A greed so total that if it can't possess these things, it will destroy them rather than chance that someone else might have them. And a greed so intense that even having these things never causes it to lessen one iota - the lovely, the rare and the precious never affect it except to make it want them."
Now, that should scare the wee out of anyone who takes a closer look at Satan. He is out to get us because we possess something so precious, that he once had and lost, that he will destroy us so that we can't have it. Even though he can't get it back. Can you guess what that is?
Nothing more nor less than God's love. Think about that one for a while.
Then think on this. Some have said that there is no evil, that evil is only the absence of good. So if God is good, then evil is the absence of God ... and the absence of God's love.
>^..^<
Wuzzy i don't know much about good and evil. Infact, i don't question myself about that. I don't know why, maybe i'm scared of knowing. What i do know is, that the fighting this world is in, the pettyness, the cruelty, the harm we can do to others is ALL because of the Devil.
And why doesn't God just put a stop to it? Because he is a good, fair God. If he did, then it would be the end of man kind... he is giving us all a chance to learn to love him and become one of his children...