Part One, Thesis:
The Good old question that has been around since the beginning of mankind growth in to the whole. Can good exist without evil, can we somehow get rid of the evil that plagues us all. I believe that we can’t that Evil cannot exist without good simply because they are the fabric of existence, just like yin and yang, two sides of the same coin. If you truly believe that there is evil in the world, then you must believe that there is good in the world as well. We can’t know what is wrong unless we know what is right. We can’t know a crooked line unless we know a straight line. We can’t know injustice unless we know justice. One cannot exist without the other. You can't have death with no life and life with no death, since …show more content…
According to Isaiah 45:6-7, God created Evil , Evil as a concept is probably just religious word that allows for people to make do that they want and what they don’t want. There is no absolute Good or absolute Evil. We can define things as one or the other according to whether they benefit us or our communities or are damaging to us or our communities. I don't think that they are actual entities, or even mathematical opposites. Christians believe that good can exist on its own, and indeed is meant to. In the beginning there was no evil, only good. As we have already observed, God was in the beginning before all things (John 1:1-2). Evil came into existence when a creature of God rebelled against God’s righteousness. There must have been a first occasion of this sin and rebellion. Satan, it seems has the "honor" of having committed the first evil. Thus evil did not always exist, nor did it ever exist independently of good. By contrast, good has always existed, and did so on its own before evil ever
The Good old question that has been around since the beginning of mankind growth in to the whole. Can good exist without evil, can we somehow get rid of the evil that plagues us all. I believe that we can’t that Evil cannot exist without good simply because they are the fabric of existence, just like yin and yang, two sides of the same coin. If you truly believe that there is evil in the world, then you must believe that there is good in the world as well. We can’t know what is wrong unless we know what is right. We can’t know a crooked line unless we know a straight line. We can’t know injustice unless we know justice. One cannot exist without the other. You can't have death with no life and life with no death, since …show more content…
According to Isaiah 45:6-7, God created Evil , Evil as a concept is probably just religious word that allows for people to make do that they want and what they don’t want. There is no absolute Good or absolute Evil. We can define things as one or the other according to whether they benefit us or our communities or are damaging to us or our communities. I don't think that they are actual entities, or even mathematical opposites. Christians believe that good can exist on its own, and indeed is meant to. In the beginning there was no evil, only good. As we have already observed, God was in the beginning before all things (John 1:1-2). Evil came into existence when a creature of God rebelled against God’s righteousness. There must have been a first occasion of this sin and rebellion. Satan, it seems has the "honor" of having committed the first evil. Thus evil did not always exist, nor did it ever exist independently of good. By contrast, good has always existed, and did so on its own before evil ever