morally positive or negative behaviors, desires, etc
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How to answer “Why do evil and suffering exist?”
I believe that evil exists because God gave us free will. Adam and Eve disobeyed God. Because of this The Fall of man happened and drew us away from God. Suffering exists not only because God can ...
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7answers
564 views
Can man judge whether God is fair?
Over and over I hear people pronouncing in one way or another that God is "not fair"*. Sometimes this is stated directly, other times indirectly as in "that doesn't seem fair, therefore God must not ...
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9answers
548 views
How can a Wholly Good God Deliberately Create Evil?
I think it's pretty universally accepted that God is wholly good. Indeed, many sources, including lots of answers on this website, are based on the belief that God is the perfect standard of ...
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4answers
650 views
Is an action morally good because God commands it, or does God command it because it is good?
The christian morality derives from God, and God is benevolent so whatever he commands is morally good. Does that mean that anything God does or commands is morally right? Or does God only act and ...
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4answers
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Why is it so much easier to sin than follow Jesus?
How is it possible, that it is harder to follow Jesus, than to sin? I really want to follow Jesus, and I'm trying to. But every day again I fail again, because short term desires which withdraw me ...
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2answers
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Are there evil acts which are not sins?
The answers to the question on the essence of sin seem to form a consensus that sins are acts of disobedience against things God specifically told us not to do.
Since sin is defined as disobedience ...
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5answers
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Are love and hate in a harmonious balance within God?
I am referring to this fascinating (and accepted) answer of Jonathon Byrd where he proves by the Bible that God is also the God of hate:
Psalm 5:5 (NKJV)
The boastful shall not stand in Your ...
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1answer
380 views
Are people by nature good or are they inherently evil? [closed]
Inspired by the question Is a moral society more open to the gospel than an immoral one?.
Are people, by nature, good? Or are people evil by nature?
To define these in terms of the world (as ...
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6answers
388 views
Is God capable of ever doing wrong? [closed]
Does Christianity definitively state that the God can never do wrong? If so, where is this stated?
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5answers
146 views
Earlier use of this argument for the necessity of evil?
I seem to recall hearing or reading that Augustine posited that perhaps evil as such did not exist, i.e., that evil is more a void or absence of existence. I think this line of reasoning is used to ...
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4answers
520 views
Does every sin affect other people?
Clearly Adam's sin in the Garden of Eden affected everyone. And clearly if you murder someone, or commit adultery, it affects others. But are there sins which do not affect other people?
What I am ...
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2answers
146 views
Why did God strike Herod?
Acts 12:23 Immediately, because Herod did not give praise to God, an
angel of the Lord struck him down, and he was eaten by worms and died.
There are many who go around blaspheming much worse ...
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2answers
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Do Calvinists believe that God is the author of evil?
"Arminius taught that Calvinist predestination and unconditional election made God the author of evil." -Wikipedia
I have heard Calvinism presented in a similar way, where God has designed ...
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2answers
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How could Adam and Eve have known not to eat from the Tree of Good and Evil?
How could Adam and Eve have known not to eat from the Tree of Good and Evil? As it was said that Adam and Eve did not know right from wrong.
Genesis 3:22:
And the LORD God said, "The man has now ...
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6answers
284 views
How can an all powerful supreme being be either good or evil?
In order to be Omnipotent, or all knowing, as well as Omnipresent and all powerful wouldn't a supreme being have to be so far removed from concepts of "Good" and "Evil"? Those are just terms and ...
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4answers
133 views
Does following Christian spiritual law extremely, cause one to sin more?
Let me start with this:
Galatians 5:19-21 When you follow the desires of your sinful nature,
the results are very clear: sexual immorality, impurity, lustful
pleasures, idolatry, sorcery, ...
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2answers
71 views
Are some people pursued by the “enemy” relatively more than others?
My pastor made a general statement (or whole sermon;) and said something to the effect that the more the enemy knows you are in alignment with God the more he tries to knock us off course.
So, more ...
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2answers
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Is the main battle of the enemy for the mind? [duplicate]
Pastor stressed in the last sermon, the main battle between us and the enemy (Satan), is for the mind.
If it is, what hope is there for people with severe mental illness like schizophrenia, bi-polar, ...
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2answers
72 views
Should Christians come out strongly against groups that do evil in Christ's name? [closed]
I finally found a safe way to ask this question. There is a Christian army called the Lords Army, that is doing evil in Africa, after twisting Christian teachings, yet this group is supported by some ...
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vote
1answer
73 views
Why did god create evil? [duplicate]
Isaiah 45:7
I form the light, and create darkness; I make peace, and create evil; I, the Lord, do all these things.
Why did god create evil and then punish people for doing evil when he made all this ...
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0answers
90 views
Was there evil / darkness before god created everything? [duplicate]
When god created everything, the light was shining on darkness and the "darkness" never mastered it. The tree of knowledge of good and evil was also there when god created everything. The serpent ...
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2answers
81 views
Did God create evil? [duplicate]
I would like to assume some points before asking the main questions.
God did not have a beginning.
God created everything. Not just tangible things but even dreams and imaginations.
There is evil and ...
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3answers
141 views
Without God is there only evil?
The Bible says in a few places that God does only good things and is full of only goodness: James 1:13 - 1 John 1:5 - 1 Corinthians 14:33. I think we can Biblically support very well that God is not ...
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0answers
34 views
Do the major Churches have an official explanation for the Problem of evil [duplicate]
The argument that God is either not able to prevent evil (and so not omnipotent) or not willing to prevent evil (and so not benevolent) seems airtight, and I have never heard it comprehensively ...
