The Problem of Evil
I do not believe that evil-as we typically understand it-exists in the world. I believe that what we perceive as evil is simply our misdirected use of the good that God provides. The reason that we even have an experience of perceived evil is because for the soul to experience itself as any particular thing, the exact opposite of that thing must come into the space. In other words, in this relative existence, hot cannot be hot without cold, tall cannot be tall without short, and you cannot be you without that which is not you. So I believe that what we call evil is just the opposite end of the spectrum of good, not something separate. Following this line of thought, the next step our humanly logical minds would take, it would seem that in order for God to experience Itself as the all-consuming good, there had to be something called the all-consuming evil. Wrong! There is only God. God is all there was, all there is, and all there ever will be. Yet God wished to know Itself in Its own experience. Logically speaking, that which is divine cannot know and experience itself except in the presence of that which is not divine. The problem is that which is not divine does not exist. So, since we have the power to create anythi
Such a God would not possibly allow evil to exist. God is always and forever saying, "Yes!," to whatever we want. ng, we have simply called it forth through our thought process. An example would be, if Einstein and a mentally challenged person both drop a cup of tea they will both hit the floor. Because of our innate creativity we are able to bring forth in our lives any experience which we so desire. It is possible that such reasons are not only beyond our present knowledge, but also beyond our present ability to understand. He is there as a source of all the love and intelligence that we need to deal with whatever we have to face and triumph over it. A child does not always understand the reasons that lie behind all that his father allows or does not allow him to do. We do not fully understand many things about the world we live in--what lies behind the force of gravity for instance, or the exact function of subatomic particles. It has no power of its own; it has only the power that our minds give to it. My answer to that would be that it is difficult for us to understand why God would allow some things to happen. I don't believe that I must qualify God with the terms all-loving, all-powerful, and all-knowing because God is Love and God is Power and God is Knowledge. Evil is simply good that is immature or misdirected. Religious Science, or Science of Mind, founded in 1927 by Ernest Holmes, teaches that there is only one Presence and Power and that that Power is Good.
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