True Evil...?

Question

Please explain to me what evil is.

Details would be appreciated.

Answer 1

True Evil is when you go to get a twinkie out of the box, but the box is empty.

Answer 2

What a complicated question!
True Evil.....Satan and his angels. That is true evil.
Evil is anything that destroys.
i.e. murder, lies, hatred, deception, anything that is destructive.
I'll give you an example.
I am divorced and have a son who is almost 10 years old. My ex-husband has custody of our son. He spends his waking hours thinking of ways to keep my son and I apart. That is evil. Mild form, but evil just the same. Makes my life miserable and therefore, he succeeds.
A stronger form of evil, would be the ones you hear about the serial killers, the serial rapists.
Greed is another one, because greed makes you do things you normally would never dream of doing.
These are all forms of evil.

Answer 3

Evil is a privation, the absence of good. Moreover, evil is not a "thing", thus evil was not created by God, who is the Creator of all things.

Nevertheless, an omnipotent God could not have created a morally free creature (persons or angels) incapable of choosing to do evil. Thus we and the angels are created with the potential to do evil.

So how is a perfect God's demand for justice for sin reconciled with our own imperfections? Here we find that God came up with a perfect solution. He became flesh, lived a perfect life, and acted as our representatives in God the Father's court of justice. There He was judged and crucified, carrying all the past and future world's sins with his crucifixion. God the Son, Christ, became our sin bearer and we need only acknowledge that sacrifice to be made "justified" in God's eyes and in God's demand for justice for sin.

Think of it this way. Your son does something like breaking a neighbor's window. Yet your son is too young to be made to pay for his crime. Society demands that the parent then act in the son's role and pay for these crimes. Likewise, God the Father allows God the Son to be humankind's representative. Christ paid the price for us all; it is deposited there in the justice bank of God. We need only claim our "share" of that account's balance and present ourselves to God.

In summary, a perfectly just being, God the Father, requires that sin be punished. In the Old Testament, such punishments were the slaughter of an innocent animal, accompanied by prayers of adoration and contrition to God the Father. These lawful rituals drove home the point to mankind that there are consequences for bad behaviors. These lawful rituals also foreshadowed a more significant means of reconciliation before God the Father’s demand for justice. A perfect being, Christ, willingly went to His death. A perfectly just God the Father, knows that the Son’s death is not justice, for the Son was sinless. Therefore, the perfectly just God the Father credits anyone who will claim the Son’s death as payment for their sins.

See also..

The Problem of Evil:
http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/evil/

Answer 4

Tough task. Since "evil" is in the eye of the beholder...just like beauty. Hitler thought that killing millions of Jews was a good thing. Defining evil is just as difficult as defining good. All i know is this...the evil in this world has a source, and the source is Satan.

Answer 5

Evil is people. If there is a devil, then its not his fault. People make evil come to life. Like when a father rapes his daughter, thats true evil.

Answer 6

An illusion of an absolute.

What is evil to one is not evil to another.

Answer 7

Evil is that which harms others. The more something harms, the more evil something is.

Answer 8

There is no Evil, it is just an illusion...
as it is written in the bible, Everything is good, but not everything is righteous.

Answer 9

Evil is the absence of God. Like dark is the absence of light.

Answer 10

The absence of Good.