Is it possible to know what good without knowing what evil is, and vise versa?
2006-11-15 13:27:25 · 15 answers · asked by Phoenix Summersun 3 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
The whole cosmos is comprised of a great many "paired opposites" How could we comprehend what "hot" was, without knowing "cold" / happiness without sadness / the meaning of "hard" unless we also knew "soft" /joy without sorrow? How would "wet" have a meaning without its comparison to "dry"? There can be no recognition of a "state of being" unless there is comparison to its opposite. Humans try to make the concept of "good and evil" conform to some different rule. It cannot. It is simply another one of the many "pairings" by which our minds evaluate both.
2006-11-16 00:46:08 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Good can be defined without evil, but evil can't be defined without good. Huh? Evil is the absence of good, as darkness is truly just the absence of light. Good means that something is beneficial to all involved. Doing good means you're doing things that benefit all those affected by what you do. I don't have to know what evil is to define good.
2006-11-15 13:36:49 · answer #2 · answered by thejanith 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Most of us who get by without religion don't really think that evil actually exists, evil acts sure but that isn't what you're getting at methinks. Good of course can be defined perfectly well without recourse to the term evil.
2006-11-15 13:32:43 · answer #3 · answered by fourmorebeers 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I do believe that one can know good without knowing evil. Evil does not need to exist so that good can exist. Good is not just the absence of evil. It is a positive quality with its own independent existence.
2006-11-15 13:30:11 · answer #4 · answered by Heron By The Sea 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
There can be no good without evil and visa versa! Just as there can be no con without a pro!
2006-11-15 13:30:20 · answer #5 · answered by me_worry? 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
To start with, the spelling is vice versa instead of "vise versa". Then, you may learn what good is and vice versa.
2006-11-15 13:38:57 · answer #6 · answered by gonzalocamilez 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Evil is any act committed that finally ends up interior the destruction of yet another, devoid of inevitably optimum to their death. An abusive husband who breaks his spouse's spirit, or an abusive determine who destroys any hazard of a new child optimum a classic lifestyles is each and each bit as evil as a mass murderer. Goodness is a high quality possessed by using somebody who strives to do no harm to a various, and who will flow out of their thank you to be useful. reliable human beings deliver out the final in you, and placed your welfare forward of their own. They prepare unconditional love, or a minimum of attempt to. they're accepting of others. i think that we finally finally end up understanding the two, there is not any way around it. yet somebody who has time-honored in undemanding terms evil will think of that this evil is robust. Now it fairly is a daunting concept. thank you.
2016-12-30 13:02:41 · answer #7 · answered by oroza 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes: "My Grace(God) is sufficient for thee".
That is what the end of the Bible does, by giving a last singular "Amen" to "grace" only: "The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ with you all. Amen."
Law: is good, but it is also evil... not God
Grace: is good, but never evil... God
God is good (only, not both good + evil).
God saw only good x 7: Genesis 1.
Our Father, deliver us from evil: Mt 6:13
We are delivered from the law: Rom 7:6.
What remains is global awareness of it.
For God our Saviour will have two things:
1 - all men saved(graced)
2 - all men aware what they're saved from: law
What also remains is for law to vanish: 1Cor 13:8
Kinda like the real magic is at the end of Merlin movie.
(evil mame vanishes when they all stop acknowleging her)
For law(evil) is old and "ready to vanish": Hebrews 8:13.
And it shall vanish when we let the shew end as written:
The GRACE of our Lord Jesus Christ WITH YOU ALL. AMEN.
2006-11-15 15:40:17 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
The idea that one can only know an extreme by its opposite is a lie that ego tells to keep us away from our Father. I've seen many babies with expressions of utter joy on their faces, and peace, long before they would know anguish, or war.
True good has no opposite, for it is of God, and God is All That Is.
2006-11-15 22:46:53 · answer #9 · answered by Sky in the Grass 5 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Good without Evil is just............ God with Devil is just.......... Good cannot be defined without evil..why else do you think God allows the Devil to stay in existence?
2006-11-15 14:06:28 · answer #10 · answered by Sheena 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋