Who created "evil"?
By ParaTed2k
@ParaTed2k (22940)
Sheboygan, Wisconsin
November 6, 2011 6:44pm CST
I have been asked this question a lot, and I admit until now I never came up with an answer that I thought covered it. I mean, it exists, so it must have been created, right?
But today I heard a great answer for the question.
Heat and cold are not what most of us think they are. We think of them in terms of the numbers used to measure them. But those numbers don't represent "heat" and "cold" they represent heat. If left alone, nothing is "hot" it is always "cold". It takes no energy to produce "cold", but presence of thermodynamic energy will always produce heat.
Another example is dark and light. You can't have "negative" light. Dark is simply the lack of light. You can never add darkness to anything, you can simply reduce the light.
The fact is, dark and cold can't be created. They are simply a lack of specific forms of energy.
The same with evil. It is not a substance that has to be created, it is the lack of Good.
According to the Holy Bible, God created the all things, He created light, Heat, and Good. Dark, Cold and Evil didn't need to be created, they are simply the 0 quantity of each.
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@barehugs (8973)
• Canada
7 Nov 11
I agree with this analysis, but would take it a step further- Although as dark is the absence of light and cold is the absence of heat, evil is more than a lack good. Evil is an absence of Knowledge. This is why Incarcerated criminals are encouraged to learn right from wrong!
@ParaTed2k (22940)
• Sheboygan, Wisconsin
7 Nov 11
Hmm, I don't know about that, but it is something to think about.
I wonder because, ignorance isn't in itself evil. On the other hand, knowledge itself isn't necessarily good.
@ParaTed2k (22940)
• Sheboygan, Wisconsin
7 Nov 11
And yet Lucifer had knowledge, and still chose evil.
@1hopefulman (45120)
• Canada
7 Nov 11
I have heard this reasoning before. Let's see if I can add something to it.
What does the Bible say about God?
1 John 1:5 Today's New International Version (TNIV)5 This is the message we have heard from him and declare to you: God is light; in him there is no darkness at all.
Notice that the verse says that God is light.
So if God is light, we only have darkness when we block the light. So evil only happens when we block the good. It seems to me that evil started or was created when someone blocked off the good. So evil was created by Satan the Devil.
@ParaTed2k (22940)
• Sheboygan, Wisconsin
7 Nov 11
But we're also taught that Satan can counterfeit, but he cannot create.
But your analogy works well, because evil is the absence of good.
Actually, the word "Good" is Gaelic for Godly, or more grammatically, "of God".
@1hopefulman (45120)
• Canada
7 Nov 11
True! Criminals can also counterfeit but are they creating something of value. Isn't counterfeit the absence of genuine?
By the way, you posted an Interesting discussion!
@1hopefulman (45120)
• Canada
9 Nov 11
Interestingly, I was reading this verse in my Bible reading this morning.
Romans 12:21 Today's New International Version (TNIV) 21 Do not be overcome by evil, but overcome evil with good.
@ParaTed2k (22940)
• Sheboygan, Wisconsin
7 Nov 11
Yes, from the standpoint of God, evil is the absence of God.
@Browisn (782)
• United States
7 Nov 11
I like your reasoning. As it is also scientific in that cold is the absence of heat and dark is the absence of light. Ergo, evil is the absence of good. One problem I find with this hypothesis is that it sometimes takes action to maintain good unlike cold and light which always exist. What I am referring to is when a person sees evil and allows it to occur. Doesn't that make that good person evil
@ParaTed2k (22940)
• Sheboygan, Wisconsin
7 Nov 11
Heat and light are simply transfers of energy. Both require a source, and something to be acted upon (transferred to). The same is true with Good. It is simply positive energy in action.
"The only way for evil to triumph is for good men to do nothing". The absence of good is evil, so it takes the energy of good people to reduce the effects of evil.
@ParaTed2k (22940)
• Sheboygan, Wisconsin
7 Nov 11
Dark cannot be created, neither can cold. For that matter, neither can "dry". They are simply the direction towards the "0" quantity of something that is created. The absence of is not the existence of it's opposite.
@grandpa_lash (5225)
• Australia
7 Nov 11
Then the agency that diminished the light, heat, and good, is elements of mankind itself. What was hard about that?
Lash
@ParaTed2k (22940)
• Sheboygan, Wisconsin
7 Nov 11
Nothing hard about it, once I got passed the paradigm that everything that exists had to be created.
@Fatcat44 (1141)
• United States
7 Nov 11
If you look at the modern day teaching of our church leaders, Ted, the create word actually came from the Greek word for organize.
Things already existed and he organized them. This is a poor translation error and interpretation of the word Greek word which something like "bureau" but I do not konw exactly how to spell it. I talked to my friend from Greek, using his Greek Bible, what surprised when I asked him about the word, and he agreed to the term.
@ParaTed2k (22940)
• Sheboygan, Wisconsin
8 Nov 11
True Fatcat, and that works well for us, but the people asking the question are mostly atheists, and aren't interested in how we interpret words. They want answers they can relate to.
@millertime (1394)
• United States
7 Nov 11
That's an interesting way to think of good and evil. I've never thought about it that way. With that reasoning though, it's kind of scary to think that without the good created in us, we would all be pure evil...
@ParaTed2k (22940)
• Sheboygan, Wisconsin
7 Nov 11
Without Good's influence, yes we would all be pure evil... nothing but an existence of cold darkness.
@kingparker (9673)
• United States
11 Nov 11
Reading your statement above, sounds make a bit sense to me. I think that can explain the evil, dark and cold concept a little bit clear. Nice post here, I will always remember it.
