Are God (Good) and Evil (Bad) actually one entity?

Question

Consider this,

If there is no good, how can one say something is bad?
It's like when there is no such thing as hot, how does one know if something is cold?

My question was,
Are God and Evil actually one entity?
If there is no such thing as evil, is there such a thing as good?

I appreciate your thoughts and answers!

Answer 1

There is Good!
There is bad!

The one known as the Creator has discarded all of the bad and that which is remaining is only good!

If we want to merge with the Creator, we must discard that which is bad and only allow that which is good to remain!

Oil will not merge with water, is it not so?

Only God is God..................

Answer 2

This may be long but its well worth reading and to the point. No they are not. The Bible is quite clear on that point.

But many atheist come to the same conclusion you suggested, there is no such thing as ultimate right or wrong.

But that really is the problem with the atheistic worldview. Not that some atheists choose to be immoral, but inherantly it provides no objective foundation for morality whatsoever. Any atheist Ive ever talked to on this subject at length eventually admits that he or she believes that morality is subjective because the bottom line is they are forced to say that morality comes from humans and not a transcendent being. If morality comes from humans, then there is nothing objective about it!

If I tell you that an apple is red, grows on trees, is a type of fruit, and grown in Washington, Ive told you a set of objective statements about an apple. These have nothing to do with how anybody personally feels about apples nor did I have a hand in determining these facts. Now if I tell you I dont like eating apples but my brother does, I didnt really tell you anything about apples, only a set of subjective statements about me and my brother.

So invariably any answer you get from atheists is going to be just that, SUBJECTIVE. They will say "well I believe doing this is good for this reason" and "well I dont believe in that so much." A subjective moral viewpoint tells you so much about the person but it doesnt tell you squat about morality itself nor clearly objectively defines what is RIGHT or WRONG. Therefore what Hitler did wasnt WRONG, you just happen to disagree with it!

Its true you dont have to be Christian in order to hold to good morality. But you do need to be a theist in order to have a proper grounding and understanding of it. Otherwise, choosing good morality to the atheist may as well be as arbitrary as picking MCD's or Burger king, you arent obliged in any objective sense to pick either. Morality becomes a subjective picking and choosing what YOU think is right and wrong and not what is ACTUAL right and wrong.

“Like Stalin and Mao, Hitler illustrates the point made by both Dostoyevsky and earlier John Locke: when God is excluded, then it is not surprising when morality itself is sacrificed in the process and chaos and horror is unleashed on the world. So it has been in our time, and all the elaborate evasions produced by today’s atheists cannot change what their anti-religious kinsmen did, cannot change the grim facts of history.” -Dinesh D'Souza

Answer 3

Okay in Judaism, the good is called a Yetzer tov and the Bad is called the Yetzer Hara. The bad is not really evil. G-D commanded that there should eb balance in the world, to give everyone the choice b/w bad and good. We all have two sides of us. the evil side and the Good side. the evil side really wants us to choose the good side. It is like a teacher and a test. She puts questions to trick you.

Answer 4

Sorry I lost you at God=Good.
I tend to believe that the devine is a human creation (manipulation) of natural energy and tend to therefore be mirrors of culminated human emotion and cannot automatically be equated as "good" or "evil."

Good and Evil are only the same because they are choices. The same way that white and black are the same because they are colors. Yes you do need one for the other, look around you and you find that in nature there is rarely something without an opposite. It always seems to me that the entire Earth constantly struggles for balance, and I have found it to be the literal meaning of life for myself.

Good luck on your journey, BB, thanks for your thoughtful question, sorry I can't answer it for you. :)

Answer 5

They are abstractions used to describe certain actions, they are as fluid as they subjective in the way they are employed. What may be good/bad to you may be seen as bad/good to someone else.

Consider the fact that 'evil', as an abstraction, is used extensively to evoke fear in a congregation, secular or non-secular, of something concrete that is in opposition. Religious and political texts/media evoke similar feelings in us today, providing a black and white, binary perception of reality, it simplifies value judgments. But in contrast teachings of Buddhism do not have such a blatant binary take on these abstractions and consider the 'whole' in terms of actions and their consequences in terms of harm and benefit.

Good and evil are invented titles for degrees of action. How these terms are used should be the true focus of consideration.

Answer 6

your question does not make any sense. good and bad are for the most part only perceptions. The same rain storm that makes my grass grow also travels downstream and floods peoples homes and ruins their lives. So, is the rain good or bad? It is neither, it is rain and that is all it is. The people are at fault for building where they could be flodded just as I chose not to build there. Also, assuming your god is good, why then does he allow starvation and famine? Why does he also allow the priests that rape and molest children in the name of god to do so? If there was a god and it was a "good" god, none of those things would occur. Since religion is manmade it is full of all of the faults that men make. Is all of that not true?

Answer 7

You are getting confused in manichiest thought. You may not realize something is good without the presence of evil however the absence of evil can be considered good. Just because you don't have the concept does this mean it doesn't exist or that you just haven't experienced it?

Answer 8

good and evil are not 'entities' bj, they are simply two of the myriad forms of human behavior...actions, thoughts, words, and deeds may be good or evil or anything in between, but there is no such thing as a good beast and an evil beast fighting for supremacy...you can file them with santa, paul bunyan, the easter bunny and the tooth fairy...

Answer 9

good and evil are dependent on one's views of morality. When you free yourself from morality, then all things simply are. There is no good or bad, simply action.

As for heat and cold, those are sensations of the touch. You are correct in saying that if you have never felt heat, then you would never know the lack of it.

The coin has two sides, but you'll never know it unless you've seen both.

Answer 10

Okay, I'm an atheist, but as I understand it, God created everything, including Satan. But more abstractly, what is evil is related to perception. People disagree on what is evil. So yes, God is responsible for evil. And wouldn't life be so boring without it?