What do you call it when you intend to do evil and good happens? Or when good is intended and evil happens?

Question

I really don't know. Anyone? Oh, and don't say a fluke. 'Cause then I'd be thinking, uh..duh...!

Oh, and don't tell me it doesn't happen because God is good and evil came from somewhere. If that's not good enough for you, what do you call mistakes? Are you telling me you meant to do that? If you say, yes, that's funny. That's like saying God meant for us to be sinners, for Christ to be murdered on the cross and the devil to rebel against him thus creating a hell, and the need for God. That would mean God enjoys our misery as much as our happiness, because our happiness creates misery among our brothers and sisters. Furthermore, that would go on to saying that God created everything the way it is so that he would be need, worshipped, and loved. Then I'd have to say, wow. Who would've ever known?

Answer 1

Sh!t h@ppens

Answer 2

Good and evil are value judgments. And you can not judge the full impact of an event merely by the initial outcome. My belief is that life is the way it is because God simply can not prevent life from being what it is. We are all involved in a process and the process is God. Life is how God functions. We must try and fail and retry and fail until in the end we succeed. When we succeed in doing good more and more often that is God's glory and God's intention of how it will eventually turn out. When we fail that is God detailed lesson on how not to do it. I may be horridly off the mark but for now that is the theory I am operating under.

Answer 3

What do I call it when I want to help someone or to do good and the end result turns out bad? A mistake. Let's say I want to help an old lady across the street and we're walking across and she slips and I failed to catch her and she gets hurt. Did I sin in what I did? Was it a sin that I accidentally failed to catch her when she slipped? No. I believe that her slip was an accident and me failing to catch her was a mistake. I believe there is a fundamental difference between sins (which is willful disobedience to God's commandments) and mistakes. I know of a lovely article noting the difference between sins and mistakes. I'll post it as a source below. Anyway, God bless

Arthur

Answer 4

We are born with a sinful nature, because of what happened in the beginning, and we do fall short we all do, and the only way to be forgiven is to Go to The Lord, and know God, if we do not do that, if we have no faith, don't expect anything, because if you don't believe how can you know.

Answer 5

We control what we do NOT the consequences of what we do. No matter what our intentions are in life, you'll find that some details were overlooked creating unpredictable outcomes. I'm not sure what that's called in laymen's terms, but I call it divine intervention.

Answer 6

Beware the Law of Unintended Consequences :) Sometimes things don't go like you've planned.

I would call it bad luck.

Answer 7

I guess it could be a change in our hearts. It's awful when people tun evil for no apparent reason. I would rather have the intent to do harm but then choose not to.

Answer 8

Oopsi, I made a boo boo!


BTW - nice touch. You posted a question so you could have the opportunity of venting a bit. Purrrrr-ty clever! Feel better now?

*wink*

Answer 9

I call the first one rebellion foiled. I call the second one a lack of spiritual fortitude.

Answer 10

I'd call it George W. Bush!

Answer 11

If someone intended to do you evil, but good came, it is called 'Serendipity.'

If someone intended to do you good, but evil came, it is called "DOH!!!!"