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I would like to hear everyone's answers on the purpose and reason for the existence of evil. If you can state your religious or other belief system along with your explanation, that would be very helpful. Thanks!
I would like to hear everyone's answers on the purpose and reason for the existence of evil. If you can state your religious or other belief system along with your explanation, that would be very helpful. Thanks!
I agree. No intrinsic evil, just this. Stupidity, yes, evil no.Maya, ignorance, anatta (wihout substance), chance, probability, randomness, Chaos.
I would like to hear everyone's answers on the purpose and reason for the existence of evil. If you can state your religious or other belief system along with your explanation, that would be very helpful. Thanks!
There are too many different kinds of evil to explain in a post.I would like to hear everyone's answers on the purpose and reason for the existence of evil. If you can state your religious or other belief system along with your explanation, that would be very helpful. Thanks!
How do they know how old the person is?like viruses and parasitic worms that eat little kids eyes.
You do understand that contextually, "evil" is referring to 'war', right? Light and dark, peace and ____Now, why he likes evil is another question.
God tells them.How do they know how old the person is?
Why should I?You do understand that contextually, "evil" is referring to 'war', right? Light and dark, peace and ____
I think it actually makes lends more depth this way. Contextually, the prophecy was for Cyrus. "So said G-d to His anointed, to Cyrus". Cyrus was a Persian, a Zoroastrian. Zoroastrianism has the two concepts of Ahura Mazda as the source of good and Angra Mainyu as the source of evil. As opposed to that, Isaiah says, that G-d is going to make Cyrus win against the Chaldean empire so that everyone will know that there is no one else but G-d. And that He is the one who controls light and dark, good and evil - which in the context of Cyrus' prophecy is peace and war.Why should I?
If we are to assume that Bibles using the English language to properly express the meaning of scriptures use misleading words than how can a person be certain that anything that it says is correct? Bibles use "evil" instead of "war" because evil is the concept the writers wanted to get across; not the notion of war. If putting across the idea of war was their intention then that's the word they would use; not "evil." Unless, that is, they were a bunch of dunderheads.
Maybe if it only said that. But it also speaks about peace.And even if god had said "I . . . make war," it still casts him as some kind of loathsome barbarian. So I don't see "war" saving his character at all..
Like that without agreeing to it.I look at life from the perspective that life is .. there is always drama/suffering in the middle.
I would like to hear everyone's answers on the purpose and reason for the existence of evil. If you can state your religious or other belief system along with your explanation, that would be very helpful. Thanks!