The Truth About Evil

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While some people might write about how different philosophers thought so hard against other minds to come to the best conclusion as to why there is evil on earth. The best way to answer this type of questions is to rely on the book that was left for humanity’s better knowledge and guide to life. It answers why evil is natural in humans, and how it came to be. There is no need to point out all the horrible events we have memories of; we know there is true evil in our environment, we see it every day and we are the evil every day. After all, is there a way to escape evil?
Evil was already here on earth when we were made as the first humans on earth, Adam and Eve, made the wrong choice by bringing sin, or evil, into our lives. Evil, otherwise known as Satan, started tempting us even in the early times, when our existence was just barely started. He attracted the first couple’s hearts into unintentionally bringing the biggest damnation the world has ever seen. “‘You will not certainly die,’ the serpent said to the woman. ‘for God knows that when you eat from it your eyes will be opened, and you will be like God, knowing good and evil.’” (New International Version, Genesis 3.4-5). Evidently, they did not die at the moment, but death still came to them, as a result of their disobedience. Evil was shown to humanity when Adam and Eve decided to eat the forbidden fruit. One might ask himself, why was the forbidden tree in the middle of the garden to begin with? God created them as “free” beings, and the only way for them to be truly free was to give them an evident choice of disobeying God. Because gives us all our free will. “Here I am! I stand at the door and knock. If anyone hears my voice and opens the door, I will come in and eat wit...

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...ght. “But God demonstrates his own love for us in this: While we were still sinners, Christ died for us.” (Romans 5.8). If we really want a way out of evil and into infinite goodness God is the way.
“For the wages of sin is death, but the gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.” (Romans 6.23) Jesus is the best road away from evil because it’s the only one that works eternally. In this corrupted world, we are likely to find ways to stop suffering and find peace, because of our free will, but these are lies that only bring people closer to pain and later sin. “But if we walk in the light, as he is in the light, we have fellowship with one another, and the blood of Jesus, his Son, purifies us from all sin.” (1 John 1.7)

Works Cited

New International Version. [Colorado Springs]: Biblica, 2011.
BibleGateway.com. Web. 3 Mar. 2011.

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