Past Definitions of Evil No Longer Serve
Past definitions and conceptualizations of evil no longer serve.
Evil regarded as simply the absence of good; as non-being; nothing. Evil as some divine, mysterious necessity God utilizes to create a greater good. The metaphysical impossibility of pure evil. The notion that things cannot be corrupted entirely. Everything in existence is good. Evil feeds on good. Good always defeats evil. And so forth.
As true as these definitions may have been in the past, they no longer serve. They no longer serve because they are the expressed thoughts of earlier modes of human consciousness that understood God, the universe, and everything differently.
Is it entirely inconceivable to consider that a Christian’s overriding task today involves moving beyond these earlier modes of understanding?
“Evidence” of such past definitions and conceptualizations falling short was on full display public display from 2019 to 2022.
Was the terrible, overpromoted plague that supposedly threatened to exterminate global humanity nothing more than an enormous absence of good? Does it qualify as the manifestation of non-being and nothing?
Were the measures taken during that time examples of good filling the void of non-being and nothingness?
Did God utilize those years to draw forth or create a greater good?
Were the people who unleashed, supported, managed, and implemented the global totalitarian measures not entirely corrupted?
Was everything that happened then essentially good? In ways we can never hope to understand?
Did not good triumph in the end after the whole thing subsided and life went back to “normal?”
And what of the church closures? Just an absence of good? A necessary evil that brought forth greater good? Just a case of evil “feeding on good?”
Answering these questions involves reflecting on these past events and discerning how people, Christians especially, perceived and responded to the evils of 2019–2022.
Any sincere reflection and discernment will inevitably reveal that past definitions of conceptualizations of evil no longer serve.
They no longer serve because past definitions of evil, freedom, and God no longer serve.
Once again . . . Is it entirely inconceivable to consider that a Christian’s main task today involves moving beyond these earlier modes of understanding?
Evil regarded as simply the absence of good; as non-being; nothing. Evil as some divine, mysterious necessity God utilizes to create a greater good. The metaphysical impossibility of pure evil. The notion that things cannot be corrupted entirely. Everything in existence is good. Evil feeds on good. Good always defeats evil. And so forth.
As true as these definitions may have been in the past, they no longer serve. They no longer serve because they are the expressed thoughts of earlier modes of human consciousness that understood God, the universe, and everything differently.
Is it entirely inconceivable to consider that a Christian’s overriding task today involves moving beyond these earlier modes of understanding?
“Evidence” of such past definitions and conceptualizations falling short was on full display public display from 2019 to 2022.
Was the terrible, overpromoted plague that supposedly threatened to exterminate global humanity nothing more than an enormous absence of good? Does it qualify as the manifestation of non-being and nothing?
Were the measures taken during that time examples of good filling the void of non-being and nothingness?
Did God utilize those years to draw forth or create a greater good?
Were the people who unleashed, supported, managed, and implemented the global totalitarian measures not entirely corrupted?
Was everything that happened then essentially good? In ways we can never hope to understand?
Did not good triumph in the end after the whole thing subsided and life went back to “normal?”
And what of the church closures? Just an absence of good? A necessary evil that brought forth greater good? Just a case of evil “feeding on good?”
Answering these questions involves reflecting on these past events and discerning how people, Christians especially, perceived and responded to the evils of 2019–2022.
Any sincere reflection and discernment will inevitably reveal that past definitions of conceptualizations of evil no longer serve.
They no longer serve because past definitions of evil, freedom, and God no longer serve.
Once again . . . Is it entirely inconceivable to consider that a Christian’s main task today involves moving beyond these earlier modes of understanding?
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