Without having exhausted every concievable possibility, it seems that nearly everything has a good and evil side. Fire can warm or burn us, water can hydrate or drown us, owning a house can shelter us or cause us to go broke. If this concept is true, where does evil come from? Nothing exists without a source.
I have always been curious about the fact that more people are willing to accept a dark spirit world than a good one. Movies or stories about good spirits are few but evil spirits scare the you know what out of people, yet are popular and readily accepted. Could this be that we recognize the evil in us more than the good?
Biblical accounts about the "fallen angel" seem like story book stuff but do offer a partial explanation. If we can assume that the Creator did not want a bunch of robots inhabiting his creations and offered them choices, what kind of choices could He offer? Choices between good and good or evil and evil wouldn't be a choice but a choice between good and evil would be. A choice should be between or among things which compel a different course of action. Apparently, according to the Biblical accounts, Angels enjoyed the same free will He provided us but were also tempted in the same way we are. When the first Angel fell to the temptation, Evil moved from the possible to the real.
As with humans, the evil of revenge must have saturated the egos of the fallen Angels and just as the Creator showers us with his light, the Dark Angel tries to plunge us into darkness, This struggle between Light and Darkness invades all human activity. The good news is that we can choose: the Evil satisfies NOW for now, and the Good is a distant promise but lasts forever. The choice should be easy but the temptations are great.
I have always been curious about the fact that more people are willing to accept a dark spirit world than a good one. Movies or stories about good spirits are few but evil spirits scare the you know what out of people, yet are popular and readily accepted. Could this be that we recognize the evil in us more than the good?
Biblical accounts about the "fallen angel" seem like story book stuff but do offer a partial explanation. If we can assume that the Creator did not want a bunch of robots inhabiting his creations and offered them choices, what kind of choices could He offer? Choices between good and good or evil and evil wouldn't be a choice but a choice between good and evil would be. A choice should be between or among things which compel a different course of action. Apparently, according to the Biblical accounts, Angels enjoyed the same free will He provided us but were also tempted in the same way we are. When the first Angel fell to the temptation, Evil moved from the possible to the real.
As with humans, the evil of revenge must have saturated the egos of the fallen Angels and just as the Creator showers us with his light, the Dark Angel tries to plunge us into darkness, This struggle between Light and Darkness invades all human activity. The good news is that we can choose: the Evil satisfies NOW for now, and the Good is a distant promise but lasts forever. The choice should be easy but the temptations are great.
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