isn't the real problem on this planet that too many people are inherently evil?

Question

of course there is good and evil

Answer 1

That's exactly what the problem is.
And the only thing that can make an evil person into a good person is the Holy Spirit.
I know - that's what happened to me.

You must be born again.

Answer 2

Yes and no, its just a symptom of the problem. Take an airborn virus for instance.....

One microscopic organism such as it can breed and ravage multiple organisms far greater than it in complexity and size. Now assume you have a population infected in the millions, are they the real problem?

Sin feeds off of life, replicates, and destroys it. The problem isnt so much as the eager consumers willing to catch it and be destroyed by it, so much as the virus and champion of it himself spreading it on the earth.

Answer 3

You seem to regard evil is a 'thing'... something that has some corporeal form of existence in the physical universe. Or, perhaps, a 'force'. What a load of nonsense. Evil does NOT 'exist' as a 'thing', or a 'force'... it exists only as an abstract 'concept'... one that is 'dualistic' in nature. 'Evil' cannot 'exist' without 'good'. They are the two sides of the same coin, in the Yin/Yang sense. One cannot 'exist' without the other; neither can be defined or described, except in terms of the other.

Good/evil is further abstracted in the sense that it represents a 'judgement'... and as a judgement, good/evil is wholly subjective, since it relies entirely upon the 'criteria' that is employed in making the judgement.

So, the real issue is not good/evil per se... rather, it relies upon the CRITERIA that people use in making their judgements of good/evil, it relies on the misconceptions, prejudices and beliefs of the person who is making the judgement, and it relies on the agenda of the person who is making the judgement.

Nothing in the universe is inherently 'good' or 'evil'... it just IS.

Since we all pretty much share the same hardware, and are all wired pretty much the same, and share pretty much the same cultural values in a larger sense, we usually find ourselves on common ground when we judge questions such as "Was Hitler evil?", since we can agree on the criteria. (Murdering 6 million innocents can hardly be regarded as 'good' by a sane person.) However, we should realize that if Hitler had been asked the question "Are you evil?", he most certainly would have been thoroughly offended by the very idea. According to HIS criteria, he would have seen his actions as 'good'... for his people and for 'The Fatherland'. He is known to have said something to the effect that he saw himself as doing the work that Christianity had started, but never finished... i.e., he was doing "God's work". (He was nuts, of course... as are ALL people who see themselves as doing "God's work".)

When we get down to subtler questions, where someone's 'criteria' might depend upon interpretation of a particular verse in the Wholly Babble, or the Koran, for example, these kinds of judgements can get a little stickier.

It's not really about good/evil, it's really about criteria.

"Religion is an insult to human dignity. With or without it you would have good people doing good things and evil people doing evil things. But for good people to do evil things, that takes religion." ~ Steven Weinberg, Freethought Today, April, 2000

Answer 4

yes....but were dose the evil come from, the devil is the God of this earth and he and his demons are working over time for a long time to get people not to believe in God, and do horrors beyond the human normal comprehension..that's evil...and people have been blinded to the fact that the devil is doing these things and want to blame God.....but the time is getting closer for Jesus to come back, and you will see evils ...unspeakable

Answer 5

No, I think that good and evil are balanced (for the most part). The REAL problem is that everyone thinks that they are right and everyone else is wrong.

Answer 6

NO
People are simply greedy, all most care about is getting money and possessions and spend little or no time caring about the world or the people on it. As long as they got their slice of the pie the don't care.

Answer 7

There are very few evil people and they have made life difficult but if they will become really too many then the life will become hell. They arent too many.

Answer 8

If the love of money is the true root to all evil, then the answer to your question is a definite yes! ;-)

Answer 9

I believe that the real problem is that too many people are uneducated and become prey to religious superstitions.
When we get a proper school system up and running, schizoid delusional mental disorders will quietly fade away.

Answer 10

All are inherently evil. It was inherited by Adam, but you can be adopted by God through Jesus Christ and born again pure.