Does the bible consist of one good and evil, or two?

Question

Seems like there is not one good, not one evil, but two. Example, By creating life, death was created. Life, good or bad? Death, good or bad? Would you want to live forever? Would you have liked to have never existed?
Neither right, neither wrong.
Love, good or bad? Hate, good or bad?
Should we love everything? Should we hate everything?
Perfection good or bad? Imperfection, good or bad?
Should we be better than everybody else? Should we be less?
Jesus good or bad? Was Jesus perfect or imperfect?
Jesus, right or wrong? The Bible, logical or illogical? People, logical or illogical?
Religion, good or bad? Anti- religion, good or bad?
Should we all have faith? Should we all have free will?

Life is a choice of between two evils and two rights. By doing wrong, a right is done. By doing a right, wrong is done. Live to sin, sin to live.

Answer 1

Well if your gona answers your own question I will ask you one...
Is it better to live to sin or sin to live? The choice is yours it always will be.

We are all = in Art BE an artist 4 life plz even if it means you have to eat dirt to live its worth it imo.

one man treasure is another man trash//trash man another is treasure man one.

Answer 2

Interesting questions.. but I believe you can have faith and free will. I also think that Jesus was imperfect because he had to relate to the people he was teaching. I don't think that Death is bad, that it is a part of life. That if we were to live forever then we would not get that inspired to do the things we do now.
I think that we exist to experience things and hopefully inspire others to do go, by our good examples or hopefully be wise enough to teach others not to follow in my bad example.
Your world consist of you and those your know and what is around you. The only thing you can do is decide what type of life that you want to lead and then lead it. I don't believe you are giving a set time, as if the moment you are born, there is a clock ticking down in heaven with the day you are suppose to die.
Thats the brilliance of freewill, you are giving a life and it is up to you to decide how you are going to live it. If you are going to believe in a higher power or not. You can't say that, for example, you turned left and it was all predisposed for you to turn left at that moment. That type of thought will paralyze you. Don't analyze so much. Surround yourself with good people, find the love of your life and things will make a lot more sense.

Answer 3

Interesting :)

Life can exist without death.
Life is good.
I would like to live forever with the Christian God.

To love the Good is Good. To Hate the Good is Bad.
We should Love the Good, not everything.

Perfection is good. Imperfection does not have to be bad.

We do not have to be better or worse than anyone else.

Jesus = good; perfect; right.

Bible = logical, rational and includes actions of illogical people.

People = logical sometimes; illogical sometimes.

True Christianity = good; Religion (if empty ritual) = indifferent.

All humans have faith in something (including atheists).

We all have limited free-will including those who do not believe in free-will.

Cordially,
John

Answer 4

You seem confused on the origin of things. Evil was never created, because evil does not exist as good does. God is good. I mean that in a far greater sense than the simple words imply. When I say "God is good", I mean that his very being is pure and just. God cannot choose between good and evil, because every action that God does is good within itself. He is the standard, the standard present since before time.

So what is evil, and how does it not exist as good does? Well, evil is a choice to not do what God has defined is good. Therefore there may be no equal, conflicting force of good, there may only be a lack of the absolute good. Just as there is no physical cold, only a lack of heat. There is no physical darkness, merely a state where there is less light.

With that, the rest of your ponderings will fall apart. Your dualistic questions, while ok for pondering, bears no practical value, and after being considered, need not be answered.

So, to answer your question, there is One Good, and his name is God. There is no One Evil, merely anything that will not follow the One Good.

Answer 5

in my religion there is only God. its really theological but there are two "paths" people can choose to follow - the yetzer hatov (good inclination) or the yetzer harah (bad inclination). the yetzer harah is not some external force that drives you to commit evil (ie satan), it is just a quality within imperfect human beings to do things for their OWN pleasure and benefit. this quality if it is stronger than the yetzer hatov in a person can lead them to do "evil" things. the yetzer hatov is of course doing what is beneficial to others instead of yourself, following the will of God.

other than the yetzer harah, there is no evil

EDIT: also there is no such thing as "original sin" or being born innately a sinner. everybody is born with a clean slate and it is only from following yetzer harah that sin is created in them, AFTER being born

Answer 6

Is your question one question or many? Yes, there are many interesting directions that one could explore. But overall your questions in relation to one another are too overwhelming for a simple posting to answer.