The Problem of Evil
I do not believe that evil-as we typically understand it-exists in the world. I believe that what we perceive as evil is simply our misdirected use of the good that God provides. The reason that we even have an experience of perceived evil is because for the soul to experience itself as any particular thing, the exact opposite of that thing must come into the space. In other words, in this relative existence, hot cannot be hot without cold, tall cannot be tall without short, and you cannot be you without that which is not you. So I believe that what we call evil is just the opposite end of the spectrum of good, not something separate. Following this line of thought, the next step our humanly logical minds would take, it would seem that in order for God to experience Itself as the all-consuming good, there had to be something called the all-consuming evil. Wrong! There is only God. God is all there was, all there is, and all there ever will be. Yet God wished to know Itself in Its own experience. Logically speaking, that which is divine cannot know and experience itself except in the presence of that which is not divine. The problem is that which is not divine does not exist. So, since we have the power to create anythi
My answer to that would be that it is difficult for us to understand why God would allow some things to happen. But simply because we find it difficult to imagine what reasons God could have for permitting them, does not mean that no such reasons exist. It is possible that such reasons are not only beyond our present knowledge, but also beyond our present ability to understand. A child does not always understand the reasons that lie behind all that his father allows or does not allow him to do. It would be unrealistic for us to expect to understand all of God's reasons for allowing all that He does. We do not fully understand many things about the world we live in--what lies behind the force of gravity for instance, or the exact function of subatomic particles. Yet we believe in these physical realities. An example would be, if Einstein and a mentally challenged person both drop a cup of tea they will both hit the floor. No judgment on who deserves the cup to hit the floor-that is the law of gravity. The same thing applies to the law of God. If I decide that I am going to ram my car into a tree, it would be a very petty, small-minded God that would stop me from doing that. It would require that God make a judgement about me and whether I'm too good or too bad to have something like that happen to me. God is not judgmental. God is impersonal. God is always and forever saying, "Yes!," to whatever we want. God doesn't say this is good or bad-God doesn't interfere with law. God is Law. God just says if you do this, this is the consequence. In conclusion, evil is not a thing in and of itself, but it is an absence of good, just as darkness is the absence of light or death is an absence of life. Evil is really a kind of ignorance or an unenlightened belief. For instance the belief that two and two make five never alters the fact that two and two make four. The belief that two and two make five is not a thing in itself and therefore does not have
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