Evil – Differing Aspects Part One

As all of you know there have been a number of events across the world in which evil has reared its ugly head. I have so many thoughts on this I find it difficult to sort them out. There have been terrorist attacks by “Islamic extremists” and there have been attacks against Planned Parenthood by a “religious extremist”. Perhaps this document will help me.

My first thought is to disagree with the use of the word extremist. To me extremist suggests they are following the teachings of their religion to an extreme. I don’t believe this is true of any religion. No religion teaches the execution of those who are born and live in a different country. I know people say that Israel did this when they went into the land so many years ago. I will have more on this subject in the following post.

We see evil in the world and really I find no human explanation of these crazy acts. These terrorists complete military training and then vent their anger on innocent groups of people. Strange and cowardly. Why do they go to this training and then attack where anyone could attack. Of course they think themselves brave but they are not. I repeat they are cowards!

The Bible teaches us there are two sources of evil working amongst us. In the book of Job, Satan (the evil one) moves major forces and wreaks evil upon Job. We also, find in the letters of Paul, evil resides in the hearts of men (all men). For each individual there is always the path of faith in Jesus Christ to deliver us from the power and penalty of this evil. Coming to Jesus does this in our hearts and gives us the power to ignore it (reckon it dead) and live as Christ wants us to. This leads me to my thoughts on differing aspects of how to deal with evil. I hope to write more in a later post.