The Lord Is Good And Evil

Content: Hezekiah became sick. Hezekiah was on his death bed. Hezekiah had a prophet say to him you “shall die”. Hezekiah turn to God. Hezekiah was faithful to God, so he cried out to God. Hezekiah was faithful so God add more years on to his life. The city was also deliver and defend. It was said to be a sign that the Lord, will do things that he has promised.

Before time began, there was God; a being who created this world and filled it with life. In this world a great power exists, a power called Spiritual Aura which was given to humans by God himself. With this power humans were able to bond, find harmony and understand one another. But like all great power, some use it for good and are capable of great compassion, others for evil and are capable of great violence and so the controversy between good and evil continues on. Over time the darkness of evil has grown, people have lost faith and hope seems to be lost. This has resulted in many countries been ravaged by war and death, causing all sorts of predicaments and misunderstanding among the people of the world; thus leaving chaos everywhere.

Religious spaces, characterized by Thomas Tweed, are “differentiated,” “interrelated,” and “kinetic.” As a sacred city with spiritual significance in three major religions, Jerusalem is depicted thoroughly in the Hebrew Bible and illustrated as one of the spaces Tweed defines. The Bible emphasizes that Jerusalem was chosen by God and honored by Israelites, which differentiates it as a special, singular space; the description of Solomon’s Temple shows that the Holy City was interrelated to economic power and involved in the judgment of civil cases. Moreover, the conquest, development and destruction of Jerusalem illustrate the city as a kinetic space, reflecting the unsettled history of the Iron Age. These characteristics all make Jerusalem a religious and political center from the ancient Near East time to present day, guiding the footsteps of believers around the world.

In John Hick’s piece “There is a Reason Why God Allows Evil”, he explains his view on the roots of evil. Hick brings up the problem of an all-loving God that allows evil to occur in the world. The conclusion that arises God must not be all loving then. However, Hick explains that humans free will is the problem that leads to evil. A few strengths that Hick has in his argument is the laws of nature, he mentions that they “…would have to be extremely flexible; sometimes gravity would operate, sometimes not; sometimes an object would be hard and solid, sometimes soft. There could be no sciences, for there would be no enduring world structure to investigate” (129). Nothing could hurt anyone or anything, and the world would be some perfect fairytale; “…life would become like a dream in which, delightfully but aimlessly, we would float and drift at ease” (130). Hick goes on to explain that evil allows people to learn what is good, grace and faith. If evil doesn’t exist, then how could one tell the difference from right or wrong? There would be no moral lessons to be taught or learned from since there is no wrong, and wrong an only be done when there is evil. Hick also mentions that bravery, courage and strength would have no point and meaning. Everything that builds character would not exist. The weakness in Hicks argument is that he is blaming free will for the ultimate cause of evil. There are obviously nature disasters that could be considered evil as well. Hick believes that

The naturally good world has been corrupted by evil, and a God is going to restore it to its nature. Apparently, the restoration is indeed obvious. It is shown through the everlasting teachings of kindness, harmony, and peace. Men are smart, but they are selfish and ignorant, making them unable to invent such moral teachings. Hence, those teachings, or Laws, are derived from an another source—God—who is perfectly selfless. Indeed, Christianity is sensical, for there are evidences that God is making changes in humanity.

The Song of Songs develops a theme of love with its use of naturalistic comparisons. Throughout the song, both the bride and bridegroom

The Psalm states how it’s going to rebuild, what this means is that everything wrong that has happen there will be a good in. That everything will be peaceful, that thing will soon find its way back. Also it means to wait and see what will happen next. In the book,” It tells how over the year the war

Chapter 58 of Isaiah marks an important change in cultural values due to the humiliation brought about by the Babylonian invasion around the 6th century B.C.E. Gone are the days of good and evil being simply defined as that which coincides with Yahweh’s will, and that which doesn’t. Now, Isaiah tells the people that simply following the current ways of sacrifice aren’t enough, and instead calls for social justice (Chilton, 200), and, in a sense, attempts to invite a return to pre-monarchical social structuring. This new morality value system aims to upset the existing post-monarchical Israelite social structure, whilst also invigorate a new, post-exilic, collective Israelite national identity. Thus, let us begin by examining the political, social, and literary motivations behind this Book.

In order for us to ask whether God is good and all-knowing or negligent to the evil andsorrow our lives contain, we must examine ourselves. It is not a question of God’s love or thepresence of evil, but how we live and perceive evil in our lives.The journey to answeringwhether God is good or why bad things happen to the undeserving will be discussed in thefollowing response.Our creator gave us the ability to make our own choices through free will. When Godgave us this wonderful gift, one can assume that he did not give us free choice for the purpose ofcreating evil. However, when God gave Adam and Eve free will, He allowed them to make theirown choice, good or bad. God understood that giving us free will allowed us to make our ownmistakes and successes. Gary Watts speaks of this with an analogy about letting his newlylicensed son drive the family car. “We are called upon to make a choice concerning freedom, andthe choice is a costly one. In exchange for something of value, we must give up our control andlive with uncertainty. We must take a risk” (Watts, 1999, pg. 41). In order to give loved-ones thefreedom to act on their own, you must relinquish control of their decisions. This is what God didfor mankind when he gave Adam and Eve free will. It is the choices that people make thatwelcome bad situations into their life. This is not always the case, but can be proven in asignificant portion of people’s lives. As Newton states in his third law of physics, “With everyaction,

From shooting to bombings to rape or just simply stealing someones lunch money, it is evident that evil does in fact exist. But where does it come from? In The Bible Ezekiel 28:11-19 states that evil derived from the fall of Lucifer as a result of pride. The Bible acknowledges the existence of evil. This leads to one of the biggest road blocks in christianity, how can a God who is omnibenevolent, omniscient, and omnipotent allow evil to exists? It is a common misconception that the existence of evil limits God from being all three things at once. A God who is all loving, all knowing, and all powerful can exist in a world full of evil because evil can be used for a greater good, God has the right to inflict harm, and we are given free will.

Part 1: Introduction and Context of the Passage You will write an introduction that serves as an overview of the content of the paper, providing background and cultural information about the setting of the book in which the selected passage occurs. Psalm 1 is a fitting introduction for the Book of Psalms in that it summarizes the two ways open to mankind, the way of the righteous and the way of the wicked. This psalm describes the blessed man who leads an untarnished and prosperous life in accord with the Word of the Lord, and contrasts him with the ungodly who shall perish.

The overall structure of the Psalm is that it is broken into two halves. The first half of the psalm is God’s creation. The second half deals with God’s Word. Though they are both different they both share the common theme of god revealing Himself to mankind. Inside of these halves the author uses different parallelism. In the first verse we see synonymous parallelism, using the heavens and skies to make the point that they are telling of God’s Work. In the seventh verse we see synthetic parallelism showing the progression from perfection to restoration of the imperfect.

“Did God create good” and “did God create evil” are two questions that are essential to explore in order to fully comprehend the Christian faith. It is evident from the account of creation in Genesis that what God creates is inherently “good” (Genesis 1). Moreover, God himself is good and without sin (Habakkuk 1:13). We know that God is good and his creation is good so now the question of evil remains. Moreover, how do we reconcile the statement “God created everything through him, and nothing was created except through him” (John 1:3, NLT) with what we know about God’s character? In order to respond to this scripture with an accusation against God for creating everything including evil we would have to consider evil an entity that is able

Nobody is all good and nobody is all evil. Throughout all history, whether it be in the United States or somewhere else in the world, there has always been people who are infamous for unspeakable crimes or for their tremendous acts of bravery. There has always been people who have seemed to be the literal definition of good and evil and have always been made out like they were exactly that: completely good or completely evil. It’s easy to label a person like that, to ignore any of their other actions that may contradict what the world knows them as, but that’s the thing about labels; nobody can truly fit completely under them. Even someone like Adolf Hitler was once upon a time an okay person before he was completely driven by fear and bitterness to the point he actually attempted to wipe out an entire group of people. The question is, if a person’s actions were courageous or wicked enough, should they only be defined by those actions? Someone like Nathan Bedford Forrest, who was a racist his whole life, someone who was involved in the trading of slaves and even joined the Ku Klux Klan after the war because he was so bitter about the defeat of the Confederacy; should he be defined by only these hateful actions? The answer depends: because while no one is completely good or completely evil-like Adolf Hitler, Forrest believed that one group of people was superior to another; and instead of silently hating, Forrest decided to take action and help fight for a cause that went

The last segment of the Psalm is Moses’ appeal to God for him to return his presence to his people: “Return, O LORD, how long? And let it repent thee concerning thy servants.” Not only should God return, but Moses asks for complete restoration and for God to bless the work of man: “Let thy work appear unto thy servants, and thy glory unto their children. And let the beauty of the LORD our God be upon us: and establish thou the work of our hands upon us; yea, the work of our hands establish thou it.