Board Thread:Community Engagement/@comment-29487450-20161006215517/@comment-1777104-20161010223609

@ Snow: You are turning things on their head. Evil is the opposite of righteousness, which is a result of the goodness of the Creator (and NOT the "collective" mind of humanity). If anything, evil is the result of the collective ideas, opinions and experiences of mankind, though that is overstating the case quite a bit.

Now, H.I. Again, you snate that your argument is based on what is "in the Bible" but don't offer any references. How hard is it to reference things in context? We are all aware that of the gist of Bible History, but it should always be in context and in light of the connected whole. Your point that God is the "ultimate bully" has been addressed, and you have not offered any answer to any of my objections to your assertions.

What you fail to take into consideration is that God created over the course of six days. What follows is the result of free moral agents -- first the angels and then Adam and Eve. The consequences are what we know as evil in the world. Your logic in calling the Creator "lazy" for not "deleting" something BEFORE it was created does not make sense even in light of omniscience. Satan was not evil to begin with, and neither was mankind. Of the three "evil" things you mention, only "Hell" was formed after the initial fall of the angels and of mankind. It is essentially a prison built to separate evil from righteousness once and for all.

On the surface, Babel seems "innocent enough." However, as I pointed out, the people were "doing their own thing" in direct obedience the first instructions that had been given -- they stayed together instead of seeking to explore and take possession of the world around them. They, like the people before them, felt fine living without God. It was a lot like the world today. Self-worship does not turn out very well.