What is your view of what God might be? It ain't easy to put in words, is it?
What is your view of what God might be? It ain't easy to put in words, is it?
Love. Love as a Father has for his child; patient, kind, forgiving, and with discipline. A love that allows a child to make mistakes and learn.
Money can be good or evil.
Money is not evil or good but how money is used can be evil (calling ‘money’ blood money only explains the way the money was used).
Let’s see if we can agree on some general terms and definitions for good. Good is opposite evil similarly to light being opposite dark. I would go further and state darkness is ‘merely’ the absence of light similarly to evil being ‘merely’ the absence of good. (I hope we can agree in principle here…)
But I would like to make a distinction here, if only darkness existed how would one know anything about light? With only light we can have shades of darkness from trees, shelter, closing ones eyes, etc... But if only darkness existed where would light come from or exist?
Now if we were to step into this evil vs. good thing – can good exist within only evil (as with dark and light)? If one knows good than one can determine evil, but if one only knows evil or if only evil were to exist how can they know what is good? IOW can evil exist without ‘good’ as a measuring standard towards which they try to attain?
Back to point, a good father can recognize evil and correct his child - but an evil father allows everything without love, a fair consequence, or measure for anything but evil.