Faithful Steward Ministries and FSM Women's Outreach

This morning I was thinking about the recent Terrorist attacks on Israel. One of my ‘life” verses {because it gave me an altitude adjustment} is John 3:19 (AMP) This is the judgment [that is, the cause for indictment, the test by which people are judged, the basis for the sentence]: the Light has come into the world, and people loved the ^[a]darkness rather than the Light, for their deeds were evil. It goes hand in hand with our main text for today.

Why do people do evil things? I am not a board-certified psychiatrist but the answer is VERY OBVIUS, they love EVIL. What is evil:

evil, nature of. The character of that which is opposed to good. Christians think of evil as what is opposed to the purposes of God. Most Christian theologians have held that evil is not a positive thing or substance but should be understood as a defect or damage to God’s creation. Though evil is not a substance, it does have a positive, active character in that it is rooted in the actions of free agents. The question of its character is therefore closely linked to questions about the nature of personal freedom and the relations between such creatures and their Creator.

evil, problem of. The difficulty posed by the existence of evil (both moral evil and natural evil) in a world created by a God who is both completely good and all-powerful. Some atheists argue that if such a God existed, there would be no evil, since God would both want to eliminate evil and would be able to do so. An argument that evil is logically incompatible with God’s reality forms the logical or deductive form of the problem. An argument that evil makes God’s existence unlikely or less likely is called the evidential or probabilistic form of the problem. Responses to the problem include theodicies, which attempt to explain why God allows evil, usually by specifying some greater good that evil makes possible, and defenses, which argue that it is reasonable to believe that God is justified in allowing evil, even if we do not know what his reasons are. See also free will defense; theodicy.

C. Stephen Evans, Pocket Dictionary of Apologetics & Philosophy of Religion (Downers Grove, IL: InterVarsity Press, 2002), 42.