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Why Do We Like To Call Evil

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Throughout this paper I am going to write about the nature of the problem we like to call evil. I want to define the moral and natural problems with evil and explain them. I am going to also explain the roles that God play when referring to the consistency and perception of God and the issue of evil. On top of that, I am also going to look at why we sometimes have bad things happen to those that we find to be genuinely good people. Evil in the simplest of ways is that which causes harm or misfortune. Evil is an immediate result of sin and is something that we all struggle with. If we want to grasp a better understanding of evil and its nature, we must first understand everything we can on sin’s orgin.

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They inflict pain on others, making them suffer. Those, on the other hand who the evil is committed always undergo suffering and pain. One good example we are going to use is slavery. Slavery has always been associated with sin by the early Christian authors. Slavery, according to Basil, slavery is not natural. It is the result of war, poverty, and fathers who choose to expose their children, resulting in them becoming slaves [2] . According to Amrose, nature does not make a person a slave, foolishness does. However, according to Athanasius people automatically call God "Lord" since humans are by nature slaves. This means that human beings are by nature slaves. Augustine of Hippo viewed the nature of sin as resulting from wars and poverty, just like Basil did. He even states that the word slavery is not found in the bible until Noah branded the sin of his son with his name. Therefore, slavery is in introduced by sin and not by …show more content…

Kelsey states that sin is a distorted practice of human love. He further explains categorizes processes in which a person's id can change and reflect inaccurately by misunderstanding the reasons or agenda that make their life worth living. He classifies these into 3 main ways through which people can distort their personal identity. In the first category, a person distorts their identity by not accepting that they need redemption or forgiveness which in turn culminates into the subject seeking self-justification, for example, through having the need to exercise authority or superiority over others [4] . Another type of distorted self-identity is demonstrated when we humans exhibit the need for forgiveness or some form of redemption. However, we view this reconciliation as an endeavor purely futuristic and reliant on our socio-political and traditional practices in our history, instead of, an endeavor that is already achieved through God's actions.

Finally, the other form of distorted self-identity is when human beings accept the need to exercise forgiveness and compassion, albeit they do so lacking the knowledge that structural reconciliation is already guaranteed by God (Heb 8:10, Isa 43:28). Instead, such people strive to

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