God is never fully absent, but has allowed His creations the free will to choose to be either with Him or away from Him. And while this can be the result of someone moving you unawares to an unfamiliar location, it is most often the consequence of your own actions.Īs darkness only “exists” wherever light is absent, and “lost” only exists when nothing familiar is present, so too does evil exist wherever God is absent. While one can be “lost,” and we certainly have all experienced this condition, there is not a thing called “lost.” You are lost when there is nothing familiar present to tell you where you are. Even though these things don’t “exist” in the truest sense of the word, they are phenomena that can be witnessed, experienced, and even cured.Ĭonsider that “lost” is not a thing that exists, either. Like depression, loneliness, and countless other examples, evil is nothing more than the condition present when a fundamental necessity is missing. The absence of other meaningful people in your life facilitates loneliness. The absence of “good” things always creates “bad” things.Ĭonsider the human mind when the chemical Serotonin is absent the condition is called depression. There is no particle or wave called “dark.” Dark is what happens when there is no light. Light exists, and can not only be proven to exist, but can be measured and artificially created. When it comes to good and evil, we are not suggesting that there is no evil in the world, but rather suggesting that it does not exist in and of itself. Good and Evil – Evil is the Absence of Good God saw all that He had made, and it was very good (Genesis 1:31). In this situation, “evil” does not and cannot exist in the physical or spiritual reality that God created. If God is good, then all He created was good. Rather, what we call evil is nothing more than the absence of good. A force working in opposition to an equal and contradictory force of good. By “evil,” we mean the antithesis of good an exact opposite. Good and evil – It seems the great struggle of good vs. Good and Evil Good and Evil – There is No Such Thing as Evil
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