Further, the more one has sinned, the greater one will suffer. Based upon these premises Job was suffering tremendously because he was guilty of grievous sins. In response to Job’s questioning about why God has allowed this to happen to him Eliphaz asks a rhetorical question, "Can mortals be righteous before God? Can a human beings be pure before their Maker?" (Job 4:17).
This is because we were all seminally present in the loins of Adam meaning when we are born we have sin and through baptism we wash away our sins. Lucifer defied God, when he made the humans Lucifer refused to bow down to the amazing creation he had made, this then led to the
“Theories of Life after Death do not provide a solution to the problem of evil” Discuss. The problem of evil is believed by Christians to have begun with the story of Adam and Eve. This is because Adam ate the forbidden fruit which showed to God that Adam was sinful and had an evil streak in him with which he would betray people as long as he got what he wanted. Adam was easily influenced by the snake and this aspect of evil has now been passed through to everyone in the world as we all stemmed from Adam and Eve. This is an aspect of moral evil as Adam influenced it himself and this is believed to have been passed down to all humans which allows us to have evil characteristics within our natures.
In verse 7, “Think now, who that was innocent ever perished, or were the upright cut off?”, Eliphaz basically says that the good do not suffer. We can interpret the meaning of this in two ways. One, heaven and hell. He could be trying to say that those who are innocent, good, and faithful to God will not perish and shall be rewarded in heaven, while those who sin will be damned. If this was the intended meaning behind Eliphaz’s words then he was indeed correct, but more than likely he was talking about earthly punishment.
My view on why god allows evil is that he does allow evil simply because of free will. I believe this because god is all-knowing he knows our next move but he gives us free will to choose evil from good or vice versa, but natural evil people wonder why god would allow this and simply I will state why. There are two kinds of evil in the world: moral and natural; both appear to exist in abundance. Moral evils are those evils that are freely inflicted upon humankind by humankind: Larson, adultery, murder, theft, etc. ; they result from the choices of free will.
Adam would have died nevertheless because all humans will die. Only Adam suffered a physical and spiritual death. Evil There is evil but are we born with it? Augustine Augustine believes evil is found outside and inside of us. We are born with this capacity to do
Sam Harris uses this idea in one of his quotes saying that “Either God can do nothing to stop catastrophes or he doesn’t care to or he doesn’t exist. God is either: impotent, evil or imaginary. Take your pick and choose wisely.” This can speak to many of those who don’t believe in God as this shows how even with this earth God didn’t create it perfectly which leads to natural disasters and if he did create this earth then he must be evil to have created it imperfectly and if a perfect being wants to create something imperfect when he can create it perfectly how is this justifiable? Some people also say that if we are a
God puts us on Earth for a reason and only he can take away our lives, as the 6th commandment states “Thou shall not kill” (Exodus 20:13, King James Version). When these values are not upheld people began to get confused, question what is right and what is wrong. The moral question surrounding capital punishment is
It is said in many scriptures in all religions that God will punish non-believers and heretics so why would people take matters into their own hands. I believe these people should be punished by God for such immoral acts. This violence is too excessive and is unjustifiable by any means. Religious violence and any other type of violence (except self-defense) can never be morally excused. Everyone in the world agrees that the action of Adolf Hitler in the Holocaust was an abomination and inexcusable.
So one can ask, “How exactly can one define sin? Is it actually defined by obeying God’s laws? But then, what are these laws and how exactly are they defined?” One question leads to the next and the questions never end. This is the state of mind John Milton was probably in. He was mystified by the clash between realities of society and destiny of God.