All men do evil. -- Adilbrand Noblesword's Hall of Warriors

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Date Posted: 02:08:26 03/21/02 Thu
Author: Adilbrand
Subject: All men do evil.
In reply to: mt. healthy mountaineer 's message, "Re: A question" on 13:51:09 03/20/02 Wed

1. All men do evil.

It is interesting that this is the number one point you made. It is a similar belief that lead Islamic terrorists to slam airplanes into our buildings. They did not consider the deaths of the people within to be innocent people. In their eyes, all of those people were guilty. Each and every one of them.

This is a dangerous belief.

And since evil is only a label that has no real meaning, one man's good is another man's evil, what is this belief really saying? Evil is totally dependant upon one's point of view. Is suicide evil? Not if you were a feudal age Samurai. Suicide was quite honorable. Is sending your son to die evil? Not if you are God.

2. This is contrary to the nature of God, and if we desire to be w/Him, we must never commit evil (impossible) or be forgiven.

How can God create something that is contrary to his nature? Are you saying God is incapable of evil?

Here is a partial list of evils God has committed: Murdering people because of curiosity (For looking at/into the Ark of the Covenant; For looking back at Sodom), Murdering people for doing the right thing (For saving the Ark of the Covenant from damage 1 Chronicles 13:7-11; For taking a census as ordered by God 2 Samuel 24:1-15). Murdering people for worshiping another god, the mass murder of men involved in inter-faith relationships Numbers 25:1-9, the mass murder of fighters for democracy Numbers 16:2-49, Murdering a person for practicing birth control Genesis 38:6-10, Punishing the children, grand-children, etc. of a sinner Exodus 20:5-6.

If that isn't enough, how about the mass murder of children: of the first-born of Egypt; of 42 little children 2 Kings 2:23-24; of a whole family for the sin of the father Joshua 7:20-25; and of the Midianite children Numbers 31:1-18. This doesn't even mention the Flood, the destruction of the residents of Canaan, the sending of his Son to die, or the atrocities God is supposed to commit in Revelation.

If God is everything (omnipotent, omniscient, and omnipresent), then he is good and evil (depending on your viewpoint). If God can do evil, then it is not against his nature.

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Re: All men do evil. -- mt. healthy mountaineer, 07:40:01 04/02/02 Tue
- war like bastards -- Adilbrand, 11:48:46 04/02/02 Tue