What are the eschatalogicial ramifications of evil as it exists in the world?
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The eschatological ramifications of evil's existence in the world today is that the Creator of all things, who has told us that He will not forbear the sins of man forever, is destined to return and pass judgment on His creation, which He foretold to us by prophesy in the New Testament as the time of Great Tribulation.\n\nAnd don't you think that if your going to use a 25 cent word that you should spell it correctly?
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If god is everything mentioned in the question, then one can argue that all of the holocausts of peoples in the past, present, and future did not happen. As god is omnipotent, then it is capable of changing the very nature of life on Earth, maybe reverting everything back to Eden for one. If he is omnibenevolent, then again, the holocausts should not have occurred, as god would not have allowed for such an atrocity. Most of all, he must show forgiveness to the 'original sin' of Adam and Eve, by reverting Earth back into an Eden of a paradise. If it is omniscient, then he should be seeing everything that is happening here, and should have done something about it, as it is supposedly omnipotent and omnibenevolent \nIn regards to the existence of evil, well, according to the Bible, god gave it form and substance through the creation of Lucifer, the angel's exile from heaven, and allowing the realm of hell to be concieved without molestation. This means that according to logic, god created evil, therefore he is evil. By the way, the simple fact that god is supposedly omnipotent means that in less than time itself, hell would be instantly annihilated. \nGod is supposedly possesses all the attributed mentioned, yet the world remains as it was then and now. Wars, massacres, pestilence and death have occured, and currently happening at the moment. While at the same time, goodness is also prevalent amongst the peoples, counteracting the damage done of 'badness.' This means that as far as reality is concerned, god is not omnipotent, omnibenevolent, and omniscient, because everything occuring in this world are done by the hands of man, not of god. So in a certain perspective, the responsibilities of the world should be man and man alone, not to any monipotent, omnibenevolent, omniscient entity that does not exists.
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"good" and "evil" are just words of the english language that humans created and humans define. they only mean what the general population wants them to mean
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the true nature of evil is to define the concept of good by being its polar oppisite
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To flesh out the metaphor here ... money may be the root of evil, but it still has to be watered and weeded and whatnot before it turns into a BIG EVIL PLANT!  In a good person's garden, the root may stay just that, a root, under the ground and not becoming anything to be concerned about.  \n\npotential and reality are two different things.  just because money encourages evil doesn't mean everyone will make those kinds of nasty choices with it.  some will, some won't.
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I think other answers missed the boat.  Your question asks about "the existance of natural evil (such as earthquakes, infirmity, death, physical handicaps generated at birth, etc.)"\n\nThis assumes that these things are inherently evil.  You see, they are not.\nIf I am a Christian, I believe my stay on earth is but a waiting period and/or test before continuing to Heaven.  How do you suppose I make the transition?  Death!  Therefore, for me, is death a bad thing?  Is it evil?  It is the method for me to be born into Heaven.  Surely it is not evil.\nEarthquakes simply provide a large means of providing this transition.  Remember, earthquakes were here before humans, and will be here long after.  After all, without earthquakes, there would be no Hawaii.  How can that be evil?\nPhysical handicaps are an adversity to overcome.  They may not be pleasent, but to call them "evil" is just going ~way~ overboard.  Remember in the Gospel the man who was handicapped since birth.  The local scribes asked Jesus who sinned, the man or his parent.  Jesus taught that nobody sinned, but the man was an instrument solely that Jesus might heal him.  Sometimes, your only role is to be a lesson for others.\n\nIn summary, you asked why this "natural evil" exists.  My answer is that it does not.
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Scriptureman says:\n\nPsa 9:17  The wicked shall be turned into hell, and all the nations that forget God.
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nope, and nope\n\n   1. If God exists, then God is omnipotent, omniscient, and morally perfect.\n   2. If God is omnipotent, then God has the power to eliminate all evil.\n   3. If God is omniscient, then God knows when evil exists.\n   4. If God is morally perfect, then God has the desire to eliminate all evil.\n   5. Evil exists.\n   6. If evil exists and God exists, then either God doesn't have the power to eliminate all evil, or doesn't know when evil exists, or doesn't have the desire to eliminate all evil.\n   7. Therefore, God doesn't exist.\n\nSo it seems kinda silly to die in the name of god, right?
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yes. There will not be peace on earth until all humans are eliminated because good and evil are only concepts of humans.
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Evil... in my opinion is an overused term which encompasses all things and actions perceived to extraordinarily cruel or unjust.  What do I think in real life is evil?  I really don't know.  You see I'm in college and my way of thinking has been a little skewed lately... I guess Adolf Hitler, Charles Manson, the IRS...
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If you slow down and take in all that is going on in the world around you, you will see goodness from heaven and evilness from hell.... \n\nTake a sunrise over the ocean in the morning, notice how many colors it takes to create such a gorgeous sight, that IS heavenly, or the smile on an innocent babies face, that too is heavenly...\n\nnow for the soldiers in Iraq and their families that situation is evil from below, see the senseless killing, robbing, theiving, and all the rest that happens in the neighborhoods that people and their children live in, isn't that evil from below?? \n\nI guess you might have been looking for a more philosophical answer, however for those that are not able to reach the inner peace it takes to see what Heaven and Hell are really about, you don't have to miss out completely...
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The worst of evil on earth.
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"My thoughts are not your thoughts, nor are your ways My ways,' says the Lord.\n'For as the heavens are higher than the earth, so are My ways higher than your ways,\nAnd My thoughts than your thoughts." Isaiah 55:8-9\n\nI don't know if we'll ever be able to answer why God does what He does and chooses not to do certain things. There is evil in the world, and we don't have to "just accept it," we can fight to defeat it. But, until His return, the world is not perfect or even good. \n\n"And God shall wipe away all tears from their eyes. No sorrow or travail of any kind shall ever enter within the walls of the city. The cry of anguish shall never be uttered, hearts shall never be broken, no tear shall ever dim the eye, and, most glorious of all, death shall be unknown. Death began his sway when man was expelled from Paradise; he ends it when the final judgment condemns Satan, death and hades to enter the lake of fire. The new Jerusalem will be painless, tearless, deathless, because it will be a sinless city. The former things have passed away." Revelation 21:4
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Not really, because if we didn't know what is evil, how would we know what is good? There would be no comparison and therefore good would be just what everything is.
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poverty...which is the root of all evil
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Genesis 3:4-5  And the serpent said unto the woman, Ye shall not surely die: For God doth know that in the day ye eat thereof, then your eyes shall be opened, and ye shall be as gods, knowing good and evil.\n\nThis was before she ate the apple, therefore evil existed before.  \n\nThis brings about a question of what exactly is evil?  God told Eve not to eat the apple, and look above at what Satan tells her ... what was the lie?  She was already like a god - already knew good from evil - she knew she wasn't supposed to eat the apple, and she didn't die.  If Satan is the master of all lies, then what was the lie?  Tell me, and you'll know what evil is.
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The issue is not that God’s goodness, God’s power, and evil’s reality can’t fit together, but that there are additional pieces to the puzzle that fit between them and hold them together.\n\n1. Free Will is a partial answer. \nFree will gives a partial answer to this question of evil and suffering. It goes like this: \n\nGod made humanity with free will. \nEvil is a result of human choices. Our first parents chose to sin. \nAs a result of sin, this world has been plunged into suffering. \nEvil, therefore, finds its origin not in the Creator, but in the creature. God receives no blame for evil—we do. We get the credit for evil because we’re the ones who chose to abandon God.\n\n2. As a result of free will, history is discontinuous. \nThere was no evil in God's original creation. But Adam had free will—he was able to sin or to not sin. And he chose to sin. And Adam's choice affected more than just himself. He represented all of humanity. Indeed, Adam represented the whole world (he had dominion over it), and when Adam was sinning, the whole world was declaring war on God. Thus even the natural world was plunged into suffering—animate as well as inanimate (the ground being cursed in Genesis 3 and thus awaiting full salvation at Christ’s return — Romans 8:19-22). This discontinuity is what Christians call the Fall. The world is good (Gen. 1), but fallen in rebellion against God. \n\nHow could God create a world full of evil and suffering? He didn’t. He created a world in which people enjoyed communion with God, intimacy with each other, perfect harmony with the creation, and everlasting life—a world with no suffering, no sin and no guilt. History is radically discontinuous. The world changed at the Fall. \n\nAnd the fact that the Bible says the world is good but fallen certainly makes sense of life. Human beings are capable of great beauty and kindness, but also great evil. Children are cute, but selfish. Adults are smart, but manipulative. The Bible accounts for both the glory and the shame of being human. We’re God’s image, but an image marred and distorted by our divorce from our Creator. \n\nThe Christian philosopher Blaise Pascal spoke of the grandeur and misery of humanity. We are capable of great things, but are always capable of pondering an existence better than the life we now have. Thus we find ourselves in misery precisely because we have the ability to contemplate a better existence. Perhaps the fact that we can imagine a life without suffering is itself a reminder deep within our human consciousness of the life we once enjoyed in loins of father Adam — a life we have lost and can only regain through the redemptive intervention of God in human history. This is a redemption that will only be complete when Jesus Christ returns.\n\n3. If you want God to eradicate evil, you’re demanding that He eradicate us. God’s alternative to eradicating evil people is to redeem them. \nRemember the words of Peter: “The Lord is not slow in keeping his promise, as some understand slowness. He is patient with you, not wanting anyone to perish, but everyone to come to repentance” (2 Peter 3:9). You blame God for evil in the world? I assure you He can take care of the problem right now — but you won’t like the way He does so. Is there evil in your heart? He can destroy your heart at any moment. The amazing thing, though, is that God doesn’t do this. He made your tongue, and you use it to speak against Him — but He is patient with you. For now. \n\nRedemption is God’s striking alternative to eradication. Rather than destroying his fallen creation, He has chosen to restore a people for Himself, a people who one day will live with Him in a restored creation (2 Peter 3:13).\n\n4. Evil is not a thing, but a privation of the good. \nThis was the point that Augustine made in the fourth century when refuting the dualistic Manichean cult out of which he had come when converted to Christ. Mani h