A question about good and evil

[Vianneyizer]

Does that which is good have fellowship with that which is evil? Does a man who walks openly in the light of day pay homage to one who’s ways are secret and hidden in the darkness of night? Did Christ come so we all would be one or did he come to separate the wheat from the chaff? What do you say?

 

[GEddie]

Does that which is good have fellowship with that which is evil? Does a man who walks openly in the light of day pay homage to one who’s ways are secret and hidden in the darkness of night? Did Christ come so we all would be one or did he come to separate the wheat from the chaff? What do you say?

Yes.

On your third point, the wheat and the chaff will not be separated until Gabriel’s blast.

ICXC NIKA.

 

[Vianneyizer]

Yes.

On your third point, the wheat and the chaff will not be separated until Gabriel’s blast.

ICXC NIKA.

Thank you, my fellow servant. Please elaborate so that we may more clearly understand your position. I do not claim to know, as I am a servant of God and therefore care little about theology, but I would incline to feel quite the opposite. I find no peace amongst those who openly practice sin. Something in their spirit conflicts with something in my own. My heart aches when they curse The Lord and I cannot stand to watch them make poor choices like using drugs or fornicating. And so, because it pains me absolutely, I cannot be a partaker in their lives, knowing their sins and watching them suffer needlessly. For if I speak they will hate me but if I am silent it feels as how Christ said, “the stones will cry out.” So then tell us please, how do you mix good and evil without creating something that is evil. If a little leven will leven the whole lump is it not the same with evil and sin?

Humbly -

Zachary

 

[Iron_Donkey]

Does that which is good have fellowship with that which is evil? Does a man who walks openly in the light of day pay homage to one who’s ways are secret and hidden in the darkness of night? Did Christ come so we all would be one or did he come to separate the wheat from the chaff? What do you say?

Sort of, maybe, and one now and separate next time. As you might have gathered, it is not entirely clear to me what you are asking.

For the first: we are all as persons good, even those of us who do bad things, and we are not to isolate ourselves from those who do evil. We are not to support their evil, of course, but we are still to treat them as persons and, as we can, help them to see and follow what is right. Therefore, we can have fellowship with people who do evil, but must not involve ourselves in the evil itself. I wouldn’t call this that which is good having fellowship with that which is evil, but then, I’m not actually sure what I would call that.

For the second: it depends on what you mean by pay homage. We cannot pretend that the evil that a person does is good, and certainly cannot pay homage to the evilness. But it may be that a person who does evil is legitimately above us in authority in some ways and that we are bound to follow his (non-evil) commands.

For the third: He came that we might be one, united and following in Him. Those who choose to be one in Him are the wheat, those who choose against Him are the chaff. The separation occurs at judgement, which He will also preside over.

 

[Sean_St_Jude]

There comes a time in the life of most of Jesus Christ’s followers when they should separate themselves from avowed sinners and those who do not love their Master. And a most important reason is the near occasion of sin which we are to avoid.

I used to run around a very liberal crowd (not much different from others in our culture) and when I returned to the Faith in 2000, I automatically started drifting from them. When I’ve seen them, we don’t have much in common and one who used to be a Catholic told me she would never go back to the Catholic Church like it would be the worst thing she could do.

I still stay in touch with a couple of really good friends who lead very public sinful lives, but they know if they say something I find immoral or disagree with, I’m going to speak up.

Life’s difficult. We have to send these problems to Jesus sometimes and tell Him, “Please handle this for me because I can’t,” and then keep walking the narrow road.

 

[Vianneyizer]

I thank you all for your responses. I see that this forum is very specific on semantics so I will word things more clearly next time. It is often hard, when speaking of mysteries to word things exactly perfect. In fact, I think using scripture was not the best way for me to go either so I apologize for that. Anyway, I never really had a question, as in, looking for an answer, I was just trying to spark a discussion about something I was thinking about.

All praise to Him who reigns In High -

Zachary