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Does One Have a Moral Responsibility to Fight Evil?

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Dawn Moline
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« Reply #30 on: August 26, 2007, 07:04:38 pm »

Andrew's words bring new areas to light. 

What if God's idea of good and evil happens to be different than our own?

Think of if, we have, in the Old Testament, a god who thinks nothing of allowing Job to have his entire family slaughtered, his life taken away, all to prove a point with his chief prosecutor, Satan. 

We have a God who thinks nothing of changing Lot's wife into a pillar of salt, simply for "looking back."

We have a  God who repeatedly allows his chosen heralds, the Israelites, to repeatedly be defeated in wars and sold into slavery, for disappointing him, never mind being allowed to wander in the wilderness for forty years.

Not to mention, mass extinction events such as Soddom and Gomorrah and the worldwide flood. 

Is not the medicine God has prescribed for some of these events just as evil, if not more, as the events themselves?

Yes, perhaps our idea of what constitutes "good" and what constitutes "evil" is different from that of God's after all.

Cheers,

Dawn
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