The Purpose of Evil

Posted on September 28, 2024 by mitchteemley
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“Evil does not seek to create. Its purpose is to corrupt, to turn what has already been created into a mockery of itself.”

~The Wishing Map

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8 Responses to The Purpose of Evil

  2. revmatthewbest says:
    September 28, 2024 at 7:07 pm

    Misery loves company. Evil is miserable so it tries to extend its misery onto others so they will be miserable as well. Goodness seeks to bring people out of misery. Evil seeks to pull others down to itself. It has no capacity to recognize that it doesn’t have to be miserable.

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  3. Manu says:
    September 29, 2024 at 5:28 am

    This is such an apt description

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  4. Vince700 says:
    September 29, 2024 at 11:28 pm

    Jesus the Good Shepherd

    7Then Jesus said to them again, “Most assuredly, I say to you, I am the door of the sheep. 8All who ever came before Me are thieves and robbers, but the sheep did not hear them. 9I am the door. If anyone enters by Me, he will be saved, and will go in and out and find pasture. 10The thief does not come except to steal, and to kill, and to destroy. I have come that they may have life, and that they may have it more abundantly.

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    • mitchteemley says:
      September 30, 2024 at 6:47 pm

      One of my favorite verses, Vince.

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      • Vince700 says:
        September 30, 2024 at 7:12 pm

        I love that verse too.

        Here’s another verse that people who don’t belive and the religions of the world has hard time excepting.

        John 14

        1 Let not your heart be troubled: ye believe in God, believe also in me. 2 In my Father’s house are many mansions: if it were not so, I would have told you. I go to prepare a place for you. 3 And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again, and receive you unto myself; that where I am, there ye may be also. 4 And whither I go ye know, and the way ye know. 5 Thomas saith unto him, Lord, we know not whither thou goest; and how can we know the way? 6 Jesus saith unto him, I am the way, the truth, and the life: no man cometh unto the Father, but by me. 7If ye had known me, ye should have known my Father also: and from henceforth ye know him, and have seen him.

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