Do you believe that there has to be evil so that good can prove its purity above it?
2007-05-22 08:12:09 · 12 answers · asked by abstract_alao 4 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Hannah how can you know your right arm existed if you didn't have a left one?
2007-05-22 09:14:40 · update #1
gg28ltl1s can you prove anything with out quoting a bible verse? 6 days give me a break.
2007-05-22 09:16:39 · update #2
By purity I meant that it is better than....
2007-05-22 09:21:59 · update #3
Yes. I had the ultimate experience in 1999 that proved to me that evil is REAL and after that I got my spirit together and I knew then that purity overrides evil. After my "experience", I thought I'd gone nuts. So, I called my Mom who is a doctor and explained. She said she's had similar things happen including an angel who appeared in her room to give her some information.
2007-05-22 08:17:36 · answer #1 · answered by LaDonnaMarie 3 · 1⤊ 1⤋
In 'The Prophet' Kahlil Gibran character - the prophet speaks of sadness and joy. When he does so he says that sadness carves furrows in our soul.. the deeper the furrows the more space there is in our soul for joy (OK I may have misquoted the great master a little!!). I believe they are one and the same something bad always seems to come out of something good. We just see them as two separate entities rather than a whole. Childbirth is a good example of pain followed by immense joy. It seems fitting that our entry into the world should be marked with two such extreme emotions. I hope this has helped!
2007-05-22 08:50:46 · answer #2 · answered by chocolatericecake 1 · 1⤊ 0⤋
While I'm a bit uncertain exactly what you mean by purity, in my experience, evil seems to prove quite conclusively it's power over good. Since man has kept records, evil has always prevailed over good. It seems that the only time the bad guys lose is when they lose to badder guys.
2007-05-22 08:29:23 · answer #3 · answered by texaspicker0 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No, that's like saying in order to appreciate my right arm, I have to chop off the left.
Evil exists because there is a choice. There is a choice because there is free will. It is more accurate, therefore, to say that if God had not given free will, then there would be no evil. But with the ability to make a choice, there comes, of necessity, the possibility that people make wicked ones. That includes angels.
Now what God will soon do to remove wickedness is another matter entirely.
Hannah J Paul
2007-05-22 08:16:19 · answer #4 · answered by Hannah J Paul 7 · 1⤊ 1⤋
No, because God is perfectly good and existed when nothing else did. Furthermore, evil is not a real thing, but a privation or lack of good.
2007-05-22 08:21:17 · answer #5 · answered by Deof Movestofca 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Rediculous! By the 6th day of creation, God created male and female and everything, including them was VERY GOOD, as written.
Evil came from another source to disrupt them.., from a fallen angel, and they then had a choice to make.
Good is good whether or not evil is present. Just choose.
2007-05-22 08:20:21 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
Good and evil are word-concepts that do not exist outside the sphere of consciousness/humanity. They are used to describe certian character traits in humans and are prone to subjectivity.
2007-05-22 08:27:25 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
Evil is in the eye of the beholder...just as the victor writes the history,good is pro-survival,evil anti-survival
2007-05-22 08:17:21 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I believe it does serve as a way to compare Good. Take care and may God bless you spiritually.
2007-05-22 08:27:12 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Evil does not exist. Evil is simply the lack of good.
2007-05-22 08:17:22 · answer #10 · answered by Atticus Finch 4 · 0⤊ 2⤋