Not exact matches
I have always interpreted it as telling us that
human beings have baser instincts that can lead them wrongly and make them
do evil things.
Unfortunately in my case, I've probably gone to excess the other way... after 43 years of being (in my view) threatened with hellfire for every cotton - picking
thing (including the «sinfulness» of being born in the first place because it's a well - known scriptural fact that every
human is born sinful and separated from G - d, with a heart that
does nothing but desire
evil and no way to please G - d even when righteous), threatened with being «left behind» in the rapture (should I fail on some doctrinal (belief) point at the crucial moment)... I refuse to consider ANY possibility of hell at all.
Humans are humans and will always do evil t
Humans are
humans and will always do evil t
humans and will always
do evil things.
Although I am very far from subscribing to the doctrine of the total depravity of man, it
does seem to me to have been proved within my own lifetime that the problem of
human evil is not much affected by better education, better housing, higher wages, holidays with pay, and the National Health Service — desirable as all these
things may be for other good reasons.
«Good people
do good
things and
evil people
do evil things, but for an
evil person to
do good, you need the Code of Hammurabi», one of the original lists of «commandments» for
humans.
We observe that no type of
human is untouched — mentally unstable people
do evil things, mentally sound people
do evil things, artists
do evil things, laborers
do evil things, academics
do evil things, business men
do evil things.
You don't KNOW my mind, you don't KNOW that people
do just as many good
things as bad
things, and you don't KNOW that the vast majority of
human beings are certainly wrong about
human evil.
We observe that there is no sphere of
human society that is left untouched — working class, middle class, upper class, all have
done, continue to
do and will
do evil things.
many religious people are not Christians, and even Christians who are still only
human get distracted by the flesh and
do stupid or you could say
evil things.
So we're at the place where we can say a couple - four
things from the existential side of the problem of
evil: [1] from the perspective that pain exists, and we perceive it, we as
human beings (you could say «people») have an urge to
do something about it when we see it.
then there is no need of hell and heavens, no need of good and
evil... every one will be a good one... but because of free will we have
human doing wrong
things to others in terms of preaching them to take them away from worshipping one God and so on... and also no will be accountable for others... its like you are on your own on that day and no counselor / helper... the only helper will be your good deeds that you have
done in this earthly life...
To Ken Margo: I am totally agree with you about this
evil thing going around the earth... this
evil minded people is there everywhere regardless of faith... that was not what i was trying to say... my point was to be able to recognize the One True God who is Unseen and who has no partners as He is not in need of any partners but we the creation is in need of Him... thats all... I wish I could
do something to stop all these taking place around the earth... I think we
human fear the fed laws more than we fear the laws of our Creator, for example not to associate any partner with Him, taking the life of others, drug dealing,
human trafficking, believing in hereafter and so on... I remember a story that I was talking with one of my friends... I was telling him look we all obey the law of the land so much like for example when we drive and no one moves even an inch when there is a school bus stop to pick / drop kids as it is a fed laws but when it comes to the laws of our Creator, we don't care... like having physical relationship outside of marriage and many more... then he said something nice... he said that its because we see the consequence of breaking the law of the land but we
do not see the punishment of hereafter even though it is mentioned very details in Quran, it even gives pictures of hereafter....
When we think of all that has come from him in the impulse toward
human freedom and dignity — the challenge of ignorance and the attempt to remedy it, the concern for and conquest of disease, the sensitivity to the needs and plight of the weak, destitute, helpless, and those in every kind of suffering, the stabilizing of the inner lives of millions of his followers around the world, and the fostering of a prophetic attack on such giant social
evils as prejudice, injustice, and war — when we consider the
things that have stemmed from this «penniless teacher of Nazareth,» we are dull indeed if the wonder of it
does not sweep over our souls.
... I learned that you, Lycidas, should be ready to respond with your verses when those «followers» of Mine say that I
do not create
Evil and evil things... imagine that, a verse from their «Bible» that says I do those things that humans consider evi
Evil and
evil things... imagine that, a verse from their «Bible» that says I do those things that humans consider evi
evil things... imagine that, a verse from their «Bible» that says I
do those
things that
humans consider
evilevil...
The new formula, in consequence, was that man's happiness and misery come from God as the evidence of his favor or disfavor; that one
thing supremely pleases God, moral goodness, and one
thing supremely he hates, moral
evil; that whenever men are fortunate they must have been virtuous and whenever they are wretched they must have transgressed; that all
human suffering is thus punishment for sin — «Shall not the Judge of all the earth
do right?»
The actual source of
evil is within the free will of God's creatures (
humans and angels), and since these were gifts of God to His good creation, when these gifts were misused and abused to
do things contrary to God's will,
evil resulted.
Though I have said that God takes the blame for the sinful actions of
human beings, and even inspires people to write that He told them to
do these
things when He really
did not, this guiding principle
does not explain every
evil situation that takes place in the Old Testament, or in the rest of history.
Evil and error, he argues, can not be grasped without first understanding why
humans often
do the right
thing.
You people need to get a grip these are dogs not demons their dogs they don't deliberately
do evil things like
humans.
«
Evil Plans» is his look at what it takes to get out of the rat race and back into the
human race by
doing the
things you love.