Or if the nature of evil men is evil, why would God ask them to fight it? Isn't it cruel? The best question of all, why put them in the same place as those who aren't?
If I had a basket and I were to fill that basket, why on earth would I place rotten apples with good apples? The logic behind God's ways are and will always be illogical.
2007-11-25 20:52:15 · 16 answers · asked by Adversity 3 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
If you planted a field of wheat and weeds grew in among the wheat, would you destroy the entire field of wheat to get rid of the weeds?
2007-11-25 21:03:11 · answer #1 · answered by Wired 5 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Why do you feel that the nature of man is evil? It is not. and wwhen you place apples into basket randomly, Do u always end up with only the best ones or do you usually have atleast 1 rotten apple?
People become evil according to the nature they are brought up in. Everyone has something good in them it just takes a little extra probbing for some to figure that out..
Good and bad people together make up an environment.. and we learn to coexist.. it is God' way of teaching us that there are 2 sides to a coin always... in every aspct of life.
2007-11-25 21:01:45 · answer #2 · answered by Luckily Bewitched 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
1Co 15:10
But by the grace of God I am what I am, and his grace to me was not without effect. No, I worked harder than all of them—yet not I, but the grace of God that was with me.
Even Ge. 8:21
The LORD smelled the pleasing aroma and said in his heart: "Never again will I curse the ground because of man, even though every inclination of his heart is evil from childhood. And never again will I destroy all living creatures, as I have done.
but Gal 5:16-26
16So I say, live by the Spirit, and you will not gratify the desires of the sinful nature. 17For the sinful nature desires what is contrary to the Spirit, and the Spirit what is contrary to the sinful nature. They are in conflict with each other, so that you do not do what you want. 18But if you are led by the Spirit, you are not under law.
19The acts of the sinful nature are obvious: sexual immorality, impurity and debauchery; 20idolatry and witchcraft; hatred, discord, jealousy, fits of rage, selfish ambition, dissensions, factions 21and envy; drunkenness, orgies, and the like. I warn you, as I did before, that those who live like this will not inherit the kingdom of God.
22But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, 23gentleness and self-control. Against such things there is no law. 24Those who belong to Christ Jesus have crucified the sinful nature with its passions and desires. 25Since we live by the Spirit, let us keep in step with the Spirit. 26Let us not become conceited, provoking and envying each oth
2007-11-25 21:31:37 · answer #3 · answered by Mosa A 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The nature of man is not evil...look around you! The nature of man tends toward good. "Logic" is a human term, and very changeable--think of all the discoveries over the past century...many of these things would have been beyond "logic" to people living 500 years ago.
2007-11-25 21:25:53 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
They're amoral just like us. My cat did murder my dog and tried to hide the body before I came home though. Good thing I caught him. I held a trial for him, then I electrocuted him with a car battery. I believe in feline capital punishment. *Wait you said evil thoughts. How the hell is anyone going to know what an animal's thoughts are?
2016-05-25 23:46:51 · answer #5 · answered by ? 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
it is not man in evil but evil in man, and if we choose to listen to it then yes it creates war and all sorts of tourment but do not blame god for this it is our free will to do what we choose and what we listen to and belive in what ever it is our chioce of life god does not have to be logicall to put a point across its how we use this imfomation for better or worse the bible wasnt meant to be taken out of context and nor was it suposse to be such a burdon that we debate it to the point of bitterness hatred and discouragement but that is a choice that people make when hearing or reading the word by the way this world is made up of diffrences and colours and cultures and thats way god intended it but to live in harmony it is not gods choice that we live the way we do
2007-11-25 21:08:37 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I seriously doubt that man's natue is evil. This is some more of that fundamentalist bull that is meant to scare a person from hell. Having faults is all part of being human, it is tragic that some fundy finds it necessary to call these faults evil. I agree it is illogical.
2007-11-25 20:58:10 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 1⤋
I never understood this "evil nature" baloney. Something that is natural can not, by definition, be evil, nor good for that matter; only indifferent. Applying a pattern of intention to nature, something that is devoid of intent, is illogical; a category error.
2007-11-25 21:03:14 · answer #8 · answered by Dashes 6 · 0⤊ 2⤋
Unregenerate man is evil. That's why we must be born again of the Spirit of God (i.e. regenerated).
To understand God you have to feel with your heart and not think with your head. It takes practice. It's faith and not logic. Keep at it.
2007-11-25 21:00:30 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
the nature of the flesh may be wrong, but when God lays His Spirit upon you, it is a battle between flesh and spirit, and we have a choice to do nothing and fall into sin, or to fight through it and reach our ultimate goal of being with the Lord, but we have to bring ourselves through temptation and deception and into truth and love and everything holy
2007-11-25 20:59:11 · answer #10 · answered by uncle_andrew814 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋