is the world fundamently good or evil?

Question

and why would you say that it would be ither or.

Answer 1

Consider this simple fact:
Looking at things from the natural perspective;
Everything you ever have, you will lose.

If you look for meaning in things that can be weighed or counted; merely temporal things; you are of all people most pitiful.

Answer 2

The world is fundamentally neither good or evil. These 2 words ("Good" and "Evil") are just value judgments made by humans regarding whether something or someone is useful or harmful to themselves or others. So you see, "Good" and "Evil" actually would have no meaning if humans did not exist. Asking whether the world is good or evil is a lot like asking, "Is Jupitor ugly or beautiful?" There is an answer to this question to be sure, but it is purely subjective and will differ from person to person.

Answer 3

Neither--it simply is. "Good and evil" are creations of human perception resulting from the ability to think in abstract terms. The world aside from humans just exists as it is. A wasp laying its eggs inside a living caterpillar only to have its live young eat the caterpillar from the inside out is not an evil act--the wasp derives no joy from doing so and is unable to contemplate the caterpillar's agony. The wasp's process is simply the action taken by the wasp to continue its genetic line. Nature is a neutral, non-moral realm. As the philosopher Camus once said, we'll find peace when we accept "the sublime indifference of the natural world." Good and evil only exist in humanity.

Answer 4

First of all - how do you define "world" ?
Are you speaking in the Bibblical sense?
the physical sense - that is, the creation?
What does the word "world" mean in your question?

If you are speaking in the Biblical sense, John says this:

"Do not love the world or anything in the world. If anyone loves the world, the love of the Father is not in him. For everything in the world—the cravings of sinful man, the lust of his eyes and the boasting of what he has and does—comes not from the Father but from the world. The world and its desires pass away, but the man who does the will of God lives forever."
I John 3:15-17

James says:
"You adulterous people, don't you know that friendship with the world is hatred toward God? Anyone who chooses to be a friend of the world becomes an enemy of God."
James 4:4

Paul says:
"As for you, you were dead in your transgressions and sins, in which you used to live when you followed the ways of this world and of the ruler of the kingdom of the air, the spirit who is now at work in those who are disobedient. All of us also lived among them at one time, gratifying the cravings of our sinful nature and following its desires and thoughts. Like the rest, we were by nature objects of wrath."
Ephesians 2:1-3

So the world, if understood to mean the current world order in a settled state of unbelief and rebellion against its Creator and under the sway of Satan is evil.

Answer 5

The world is good but some people make it bad and selected the will of the evil spirit
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Answer 6

The concept of good and evil exists only in our minds and one cannot exist without the other to make a comparison to, so the world is both, and God created it that way and he said "It is good."

Answer 7

Nothing is good or evil, yet it is the thinking that makes it so.

Answer 8

Neither. It just is. Politicians make it evil and people you find out what's right make it good.

Answer 9

the world is neither. there is no absolute good or evil. nature operates on balance, so there must be dustruction for there to be growth.

Answer 10

evil