Who Are We To Judge Evil

It is also necessary to evaluate the criterion for describing someone as evil, both in our own world, and in the projected realm of heaven, where God resides and rules over our world. A person with the ability to commit evil acts is not necessarily evil, just as a person with a gun will not necessarily use it. For an act to be evil, in the evaluation of God, it must never stifle evil anywhere across time or space, nor must it allow good to propagate anywhere across time and space. ” An interesting point to note is that God uses very intricate binding between good and fear that allows the Adversary to take advantage of the situation. An excellent analogy would be the notion that if the sun were to never set on one side of the earth, would anyone living there know what night is, or that it can exist outside of caves and cellars?

Later on in the Book of Job, we see that the ultimate desecration of God’s justice takes place as the men begin to question the past, question the present, and blaspheme the future. In this sense, God is not evil, for he has committed numerous acts of good, has always contemplated his evil acts, and even discussed them with others. God questions Job in 40:1-13 and challenges him to claim God is wrong only to prove Job right. If man was created in God’s image, and man is inherently evil when not bound to good, it follows that God is also inherently evil, and therefore commits evil acts. In reaching such a conclusion, it is important to ask ourselves: why did 3000 people working in a pair of New York City towers have to die? Had some evil act been committed in that tower that warranted its destruction and the deaths of so many people? Was some evil act to be committed in the upper floors of the towers 20 years in the future? Or is it possible that God, in all his power and knowledge, did not know that allowing Osama bin Laden to remain on earth 20 years ago would eventually lead to such destruction on earth? It is the authors of the Book of Job who answer these questions best in Elihu’s statement, “But the Almighty we cannot find; his power is beyond our ken, yet in his great righteousness he does not pervert justice. Our own definition of evil is flawed in the sense that we do not know what is to come, and perhaps one single malicious act can prevent thousands of others from occurring. When he decides to obliterate Sodom and Gomorrah, he is convinced to examine who will die in the hopes of finding just ten righteous men to prevent the destruction of the cities (which he doesn’t). God is certainly not an evil entity, and should never be thought in such a manner. Due to these factors, it is likely that God knows something mere mortals could never possibly hope to understand. There is nothing to prevent God from committing such an act, and therefore, it may occur at any time, and has been prophesized on numerous occasions such as in the Book of Isaiah, and has been termed “apocalypse. In such an act, God would truly be forsaking humanity and causing nothing but destruction and death to those on earth.