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| The Basis of evil: Where does it come from? Did God create evil or did evil create itself? I was reading a book by Charles Colson called “How Now Shall We live.” In this book he discusses where evil came from and after reading it I was meditating over what he said and had many thoughts of my own to go along with what he said. This is basically expounding on what he said with my own thoughts. I have them in three parts so far because I have not yet finished the third part. Part I Evil was not created by God nor did it create itself. You see if God created evil, then how could He possibly be a good, kind, loving being. He would be evil or have evil intent, which is very much contrary to what the Bible teaches. But, if God did not create evil then it would still be contrary to what the Bible teaches because all things were created by Him and through Him. Now, God is good and does no evil and nothing bad can be found in Him. He is totally flawless and pure. When God created the heavens and the earth He also created beings, which He gave freewill. Freewill cannot exist, however, if there is only one choice, which is to be completely good, pure, flawless, etc. Yet we were created as beings with freewill. This seems contradictory. But, God being completely flawless means that anything that is marred or impure is the opposite of Him. This means that there is and always was a choice. The choice is to be impure and flawed. So the idea is that God did not have to create evil because all evil is, is to simply be the opposite of God. Evil did not create itself because it is simply anything impure or flawed. God knew for all eternity that there was such a possibility that there could be an opposite to Him. He knew that it was fully possible that He could have done something evil. But the fact is that He didn’t because in His infinite knowledge and wisdom, that would simply not make any sense for Him to do something that was so opposite His character. Because He also has the infinite knowledge of everything that is possibly evil, the opposite of what He is, He would not succumb to evil because that would mean that evil had power over Him which would also mean that He is not all powerful. He also knows the consequences of evil and how bad they are, so why would He do something that is detrimental to Himself. Because of this knowledge He rules over evil and He could in no way possibly do anything evil. Since He is all knowing, He also is not tempted by evil because He knows the results of evil, which are not good or pure. So to be tempted by evil would mean that He does not have complete knowledge of it or power over it. Again that contradicts who God is. | | |
| 1. Both candidates talked about how 95% of the nation would see this tax cut and receive lower taxes. My question is, who is that 5% that is completely screwed over. Am I part of that 5%, is it some rich person? Who is this 5% cause it will definitely suck to be in their shoes looking at 95% of the nation getting their tax cuts and not getting any themselves. I really hope that I am not in this 5%.
2. To Barak Obama. You speak of getting us to drive these electric/gas powered cars to get rid of foreign oil and you are going to give tax credits to whoever buys one. These cars cost over 60,000 USD. I do not have 60,000 USD and if I did I would certainly not waste it on something as useless as a car that in 10 yrs will be worth nothing. I also certainly will not ever go and take out a loan for something that loses value so quickly. I do not do that on cars now and I refuse to do it in the future. So my question is to Obama and any supporters of this: Is the tax credit going to be worth 60,000 USD so I get a free car? Or am I going to have to go into debt to a car company for the rest of my life to buy such a car so I can get a few hundred dollar tax credit? How is this worth the expense out of my pocket? | | |
| I have been following the political stuff off and on for the last month. Last night I was browsing through some videos on abc.com and I watched the interview with Palin. One of the questions I noticed that was being raised by the interviewer and several other articles that I read was whether Palin was ready to run the country or not. Implying that McCain could die in office. Wow, so that is a great thing to say about him, I wonder what he thinks about that. It would truly suck to have all these media people predicting that you are probably going to die in office so we should focus on your VP not you. In all reality I don't think that anyone really realizes what they are saying. Hopefully McCain finds it a bit funny as I do. | | |
| The other day my wife (Jaz) and I were looking at some different stuff in one of her textbooks for her classes leading toward an RN. The book was filled with the different processes of cells and different pieces of the human body and it was all very interesting to me. As I continued to look through the different stuff I kept getting floored by the absolute complexity of our bodies and how everything works together to keep me and you and everyone else alive. The more I looked at it the more I was amazed by it. I began to think about how this is in a way studying the mind of God. He set all this into motion in absolute perfection and I was studying/reading about what He had created. Maybe it isn't quite studying the mind of God, only His creation, but what an amazing creation that He came up with. Praise be to Him. | | |
| Last night I had a short conversation with one of my former roommates whom I have not talked to or seen in about 3 weeks. As I spoke with him I realized, wow, a lot has happened to both of us in these last 3 weeks that is pretty neat and neither of us had any clue. Right after I got married and settled down he and I spent quite a bit of time around each other so we knew still how the other was doing and how life was going. It was a good conversation and I was glad to have it.
This morning when I woke up and was thinking about the conversation and how much I missed hanging around with my former roommate and also how much had happened that I didn't know about, something hit me. I thought about the scripture that talks about many who are thrown into the abyss who claimed to know God. He says to them, "You did not know Me," even though they had prophesied in His name and healed, etc. This happened because they had no relationship with God and did not truly know Him, I always think that they were to busy. Relating back to my former roommate I realized how easy it is to lose relationship. When I saw him I thought to myself I would see what was up in several areas in his life and when I did I was shocked to learn that I had very outdated information and that many new things had happened. I was deceived in that I still knew him as well as I did a few weeks ago. The same can be applied to my relationship with Christ. If I do not put time and effort into that relationship, I begin to lose touch with God. My relationship begins to disintegrate and I begin not to know Him and His ways even though I still go to church, etc. My heart has strayed from Him and my mind begins to think of other things instead of spending time with Him just as it did with my former roommate who was pushed to the back of the mind and sadly enough it was like I did not even care about what went on in his life even though I thought I did. Relationship definitely takes work on all levels and is quite difficult. I admit I am quite bad at keeping up many relationships and rarely talk to many people whom I consider my closest friends. | | |
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