Evil In Judaic Religion Essay

One of the examples in which the problem of evil is visible in the Judaic tradition is when Moses failed to reach the promised Land of Canaan. Moses led God’s people for many years, but when the Israelites were in the wilderness they broke the promise specified by God. As punishment, God did not lead them straight to the promised land; their short pilgrimage turned into forty years of wandering in the desert, and in the end, Moses himself broke God’s law and did not enter into the promised land. After having received the ten words of God, known as the Ten Commandments, the problem of evil became even clearer: if you disobey any of the sacred ten laws, you are removing yourself from the good that God gave to us, and therefore from Him. The concept of evil is described through doing an action that is consciously against the will of God. The problem of evil in Islam was depicted through the devil known as Iblis. Iblis was one of Allah’s angels who disobeyed Him. Allah placed Adam and …show more content…
As God placed Adam and Eve in the garden of Eden, God commanded them to not eat any fruit from the tree of knowledge of good and evil. The serpent came to Eve and told her that if she ate from the tree of knowledge of good and evil, she would become just like God. Eve took a bite from the fruit, then passed it to Adam who took a bite as well. When God found out that they had disobeyed Him, Adam and Eve were banished from the garden of Eden. This suggests a multilayered definition of what is evil according to the Christian faith. Evil is not only to go against God’s will, but to thirst for power and authority only held by God Himself. This notion is also present in both Judaism and Christianity, but is most emphasized in Christianity, especially in the later books of the Old and New