Origin of GOOD and EVIL!

[RevSRE]

I know there have been more discussions of where good and evil came from than there is time to read them, I just want to ask a simple question for consideration. Possibly we looked in the wrong places!
God is good in it absolute form all that is good is in and from GOD. To turn from God in any way is Evil.
Adams disobedience caused All MANKIND to be separated from God. This separation is the problem. “SIN” is disobedience to God and the resulting separation.
God is absolute Good, to turn from God in any way is Evil. Evil leads to sin and living like one wants. Salvation is in Obedience to God. Sin, all sin, is to disobey God.
Which “SIN” you do is not important.
When you turn from God you are as LOST as you can get.
If God is in you and you are indwelled by the Holy Spirit, you are Holy because of His presence not anything you have done.
When we obey God and keep HIS COMMANDMENTS, when we love Jesus and serve Him as LORD it means something. We did nothing to save ourselves, but Jesus DID. When Jesus paid that Debt and we are saved by grace through faith; we are RESTORED TO FELLOWSHIP with GOD; we are indwelled by the Holy Spirit, Adopted into the family of God. Jesus is our intercessor at the throne of God and we are in His Blood Justified Innocent before eternities Judge. Old things are passed away and all things are made new. This body becomes the temple of God and we are Priest of the Most High God with Jesus as our High Priest.

Ok let me say this a little different. We are saved by OBEDIENCE to GOD, To love the LORD your God with all your Heart, Soul, and Might is to KNOW God. We were made to FELLOWSHIP with God. But this is about putting GOD first. IF you choose to reject GOD that is not to believe in GOD, you are as lost as you can be, all the rest fails to change that truth. Please do not get lost in always looking for (Gal 5:19) … “deeds of the flesh”, the list of actions we call sin, in every step of life. Failing to Love the LORD our GOD, to KNOW HIM and FELLOWSHIP WITH HIM makes all else we do of little meaning.

… Certain things have been decreed by the free determination of God, and one of these is the law of choice and consequences. God has decreed that all who willingly commit themselves to His Son Jesus Christ in the obedience of faith shall receive eternal life and become sons of God. He has also decreed that all who love darkness and continue in rebellion against the high authority of heaven shall remain in a state of spiritual alienation and suffer eternal death at last. Reducing the whole matter to individual terms, we arrive at some vital and highly personal conclusions. In the moral conflict now raging around us whoever is on God's side is on the winning side and cannot lose; whoever is on the other side is on the losing side and cannot win. Here there is no chance, no gamble.
There is freedom to choose which side we shall be on but no freedom to negotiate the results of the choice once it is made. When we choose to live for God we are to “Hear His voice and keep His commandments, LIVE IN His will. “By the mercy of God we may repent a wrong choice and alter the consequences by making a new and right choice. Beyond that we cannot go.

 

[Hidden In Him]

I know there have been more discussions of where good and evil came from than there is time to read them, I just want to ask a simple question for consideration. Possibly we looked in the wrong places!
God is good in it absolute form all that is good is in and from GOD. To turn from God in any way is Evil.
Adams disobedience caused All MANKIND to be separated from God. This separation is the problem. “SIN” is disobedience to God and the resulting separation.
God is absolute Good, to turn from God in any way is Evil. Evil leads to sin and living like one wants. Salvation is in Obedience to God. Sin, all sin, is to disobey God.
Which “SIN” you do is not important.
When you turn from God you are as LOST as you can get.
If God is in you and you are indwelled by the Holy Spirit, you are Holy because of His presence not anything you have done.
When we obey God and keep HIS COMMANDMENTS, when we love Jesus and serve Him as LORD it means something. We did nothing to save ourselves, but Jesus DID. When Jesus paid that Debt and we are saved by grace through faith; we are RESTORED TO FELLOWSHIP with GOD; we are indwelled by the Holy Spirit, Adopted into the family of God. Jesus is our intercessor at the throne of God and we are in His Blood Justified Innocent before eternities Judge. Old things are passed away and all things are made new. This body becomes the temple of God and we are Priest of the Most High God with Jesus as our High Priest.

Ok let me say this a little different. We are saved by OBEDIENCE to GOD, To love the LORD your God with all your Heart, Soul, and Might is to KNOW God. We were made to FELLOWSHIP with God. But this is about putting GOD first. IF you choose to reject GOD that is not to believe in GOD, you are as lost as you can be, all the rest fails to change that truth. Please do not get lost in always looking for (Gal 5:19) … “deeds of the flesh”, the list of actions we call sin, in every step of life. Failing to Love the LORD our GOD, to KNOW HIM and FELLOWSHIP WITH HIM makes all else we do of little meaning.

… Certain things have been decreed by the free determination of God, and one of these is the law of choice and consequences. God has decreed that all who willingly commit themselves to His Son Jesus Christ in the obedience of faith shall receive eternal life and become sons of God. He has also decreed that all who love darkness and continue in rebellion against the high authority of heaven shall remain in a state of spiritual alienation and suffer eternal death at last. Reducing the whole matter to individual terms, we arrive at some vital and highly personal conclusions. In the moral conflict now raging around us whoever is on God's side is on the winning side and cannot lose; whoever is on the other side is on the losing side and cannot win. Here there is no chance, no gamble.
There is freedom to choose which side we shall be on but no freedom to negotiate the results of the choice once it is made. When we choose to live for God we are to “Hear His voice and keep His commandments, LIVE IN His will. “By the mercy of God we may repent a wrong choice and alter the consequences by making a new and right choice. Beyond that we cannot go.

Blessings in Christ, Reverend SRE, and thank you for sharing.

I know there are some to argue that if you lay too much stress on the Devil being the true origin of evil, you can fall into the habit of blaming everything on him and saying, "The Devil made me do it."

I know that isn't correct either, but I don't think man just sins on his own. I think he has a lot of help at all times, seducing and tempting him and setting him up. I think all of us are specifically targeted according to our weaknesses and tracked like prey by the demons assigned to us. Does that make it the Devil's fault? Of course not. As you say, we are given freedom of choice and freedom of will. But the origin of evil still rests with the Devil IMO. He is the father of lies, and all the other sins men have engaged in since the beginning.

Blessings, and I appreciate the post.
- H