The Knowledge of Good and Evil?

Question

Do you agree that their has to be good and evil to have a CHOICE in the matter of how you live.

Answer 1

To offer free will, you need to be able to choose.

Answer 2

Yes but there must also be nutrel and chaos, for nothing in this world is as clear cut or black and white as we think. A person can be good by that theory if they simply live as they should even if they never help another person. Hmm..Nope thats nutrel, a good person will not only live right , but stop to help another in their time of need. Someone of chaos will help this person ,yet harm that for no reason. Not really evil, but still not good. An evil person just hurts who ever to get whatever they want, and they will not help anyone at all.Those are our choices.

Answer 3

Good and evil are relative to each individual human being. God is a spiritual being who has spread "his" spirit throughout every physical living creation in the Universe. Being that God is a spiritual being "he" can only experience the physical nature of "his" creation through "his" physical creations.

The soul is simply the spirit of God, sent into all living creatures for one reason and one reason only....Experience.

All physical experience is just that...experience. God does not differentiate between "good" and "evil" experience, only human beings have that capacity.

That is why God does absolutely nothing when a grown man with a bible in his hand is raping a child...God wants only the experience of the rapist and the victim and does not label one experience as more or less important than the other.

Again, good and evil are only relative to physically living beings...I think it is a good thing to burn a bible and a koran when it is cold outside...the worshippers of those books would think my actions to be evil. But that is merely their opinion...nothing more.

Answer 4

First, lets look at a verse that refers to the knowledge of good and evil.

Gen 3:5 for God knows that in the day you eat of it, even your eyes shall be opened, and you shall be as God, knowing good and evil.

And a commentary to help explain:

Gen_3:4-5
The serpent now makes a strong and bold assertion, denying the deadly efficacy of the tree, or the fatal consequence of partaking of it, and affirming that God was aware that on the eating of it their eyes would be opened, and they would be like himself in knowing good and evil.
Let us remember that this was the first falsehood the woman ever heard. Her mind was also infantile as yet, so far as experience was concerned. The opening mind is naturally inclined to believe the truth of every assertion, until it has learned by experience the falsehood of some. There was also in this falsehood what gives the power to deceive, a great deal of truth combined with the element of untruth. The tree was not physically fatal to life, and the eating of it really issued in a knowledge of good and evil. Nevertheless, the partaking of what was forbidden issued in the legal and actual privation of life. And it did not make them know good and evil altogether, as God knows it, but in an experimental sense, as the devil knows it. In point of knowledge, they became like God; in point of morality, like the tempter.


Without a sin nature, why would anyone wish to choose evil? With our sin nature, we are more inclined to choose to do that which is evil. If we did not have this sin nature, we would naturally do what is good, there would be no choice since evil would not be part of the equation. With the sin nature, we can choice good or godliness, which brings spiritual life, or do evil, which brings death. Only through the infusion of the Holy Spirit into our lives can we truly choose good for the purpose of pleasing God and doing what is right for its sake only.

Answer 5

I don't believe in good and evil in the sense the bible speaks of it. We obviously have some choice in our lives. I think the concepts of good and evil are just opposite ends of the same thing, usually referring to human behaviour. I hope that makes some sense.

Answer 6

Yes, and Adam and Eve had everlasting life, they were without sin. They were told NOT to eat from the tree of knowledge of good and evil, but they did thus bringing evil into the world. And bringing free-will into the world.

Answer 7

It depends in what context the terms 'good ' and 'evil' are used it.Obviously, one needs a basis for comparision, but very few things are ever a black and white issue, because all of our actions have consequences.For example, you help another person change a tire.That person then goes on to rob a bank.Indirectly, you are responsible for enabling that person, even though you did something that is considered 'good'.The question then remains, was your deed 'good' after all?

Answer 8

no....something can not be inherently all good and something else can not be absolutely completely evil. Even a color photo can have a black and white negitive space that makes a new picture. Sorry leftovers from philosophy/artistic concepts classes.

choices are made from decisions and decisions derive from the atmosphere you are presented with....can you really call a fork in the road a path to good and evil? or is it just a step to the left...or right?

Answer 9

I don't think so....Let's say I have two puppies...one is a regular cute puppy with those big eyes that make them cute....the other looks exactly the same but it can cook your favorite dish when ever you want it to...which would you choose to have as a pet?...I think most of us would go with the second one...but choosing the second one doesn't mean that the first one was evil...it was just less of a good thing...

Answer 10

It is there and it is Quran
The only true source could be Quran to answer your very intelligent question. Why Quran only? Because it is preserved in its original language letter by letter and word by word for last 1450 years and it is today as fresh, motivating and understanding as on day 1. This is a living miracle as no one can freez the journey of languages which normally die in ferw centuries and modify to such an extent that old books become obsolete.
The God is present every where. In Surah Al-Waqeeah of Quran where the God in intial verses decribes the happening on the last day and how people will be ranked into three files and what woudl happen to each rank and file, He says clearly that "We are closer to the dying person than you, but you can't see" As the God is not a man, His powers are enormous. Although Arsh (Above seven skies) is His Throne, but He is everwhere. It is difficult to have absolute and accurate undrstanding How He is everywhere but our minds are feeble and our knowledge is very limited indeed. Now with TV we cab be anywhere. But that is by sight and sound only But God can be physically everyhwere. The God (In Arabic and some other languages and in Ancient Hebrew etc Allah: Al = the, Ilaha = God, Allah = the God, One and Only Creator and sustainer of everyone) Whosoever believe in Him and obeys Him is a Muslim as all the Prophets from Adam, Noah, Abraham, Lot, Ishameel, Isac, Moses, Aaron, David, Jesus (PBUT) etc. and the final messanger as foretold in Torah (Book of Moses) and Injeel (The Book of Jesus) was Muhammad and the book given to him was Quran. Since He was the final messenger it was only natural that book given to be him is saved and could be witnessed by all, everywhere on earth.

Answer 11

Yes, this is how the distinction is made between the good and the wicked, the wheat and the chaff, the seed that took root in nourishing soil and the seed that fell to the wayside.