Does evil come from evil and good from good?

[Black_Angel_1]

Just remember that Good and Evil are labels, as is Right and Wrong.

Good CANNOT exist without Evil, Evil CANNOT exist without Good. They are two sides of the same coin.

Without evil, then good is nothing more then a forced point of view. In fact if evil doesn’t exist anymore at one point then that means Good doesn’t exist either, meaning God wouldn’t be Good because there is no counteracting force to give it the label “good”

Free will is to always have both.

Like Right and wrong.

Can someone be right if no one else in someway shape or form is wrong? no its impossible.

 

[kage_ar]

I crochet. I create things.

There are times when I will spend many hours on a project, only to unravel it all. I destroy what I have made. Friends will freak out when they see me frog an entire afaghan. I know that it will be made even better when I am finished with it. What appears to be distruction is really only perfecting my work.

 

[fakename]

No where did I claim that God changed. God never changes. How he dealt with men changed from the old covenant to the new covenant. Before Christ God’s grace had not yet been “poured out” on all mankind. Jesus’ death and resurrection is the new covenant in which God made his saving grace available to all in Christ.

And wherever did you get the idea that death equals “non-existence”? All human beings have immortal souls that don’t die. The people of those cities physically died but their souls are very much alive.

God exacts his justice as he sees fit. He made us. We have to answer to him not he to us. If he deems people unworthy of what they have he can take it from them without having done any injustice to them.

You seem to want to put God within limits that make sense to you. That’s the wrong approach. You should be exploring God’s nature–what he is and how he operates according to what he is.

Part of understanding God is understanding how He operates which is precisely why I’m asking these questions -because I don’t understand how He operates not because I want to put Him within limits.

Also I put “changed” in quotation marks to show that I didn’t really mean that God changed.

But finally, human beings are not just soul but body and soul and so when God destroyed people’s body He also destroyed that thing called “humans”. So again, how did God destroy humans? I would say by not using His power but others would say by using His power -so which is it?

Also, though I would say that one can have good without evil, since one can understand evil without it really existing just as one can understand unicorns without them actually existing. True it may be hard to understand good and evil through experience if evil didn’t exist yet intellectually it is still easy to understand the two concepts.

 

[Della]

But finally, human beings are not just soul but body and soul and so when God destroyed people’s body He also destroyed that thing called “humans”. So again, how did God destroy humans? I would say by not using His power but others would say by using His power -so which is it?

There is no “which is it” here. My point is that destroying the body doesn’t destroy the person. At the resurrection of the dead every human who ever lived (and died) will be reunited with his body. God does not destroy us as persons. If physical death meant destroying humans, it truly would be annihilation, but it just doesn’t. It doesn’t matter if people die as result of God destroying their city or by stepping in front of a moving bus. Physical death happens to everyone, but it doesn’t destroy humans because it doesn’t destroy the person. God used fire and brimstone to destroy the cities, as a result the people died. How does that add up to God destroying/annihilating persons? It doesn’t.