You won’t get far until you’ve worked through the Evil post. I promise.

 

Evil doesn’t exist.

Evil = what is NOT.

 

This is a hard concept to wrap your mind around but let’s try looking at it like this.

Suppose I tell you this lie: “You won’t get hurt if you jump from this cliff.”

I know you will but I want you to think you won’t. So you believe me and jump…and get severely hurt.

Are you hurt? Yup.

Is the pain real? Yup.

Did something bad happen? Yup.

Did I tell a lie? Yup.

Does the lie exist? Yup.

Does the illusion that the lie created in your mind before you jumped represent reality? Nope.

There you have it. An illusion is a picture of something that doesn’t exist parading itself as if it does. Evil can be thought of as the illusion of things that don’t exist - the illusion of what is NOT.

 

Genesis 2:9 (ESV)
⁹ And out of the ground the Lord God made to spring up every tree that is pleasant to the sight and good for food. The tree of life was in the midst of the garden, and the tree of the knowledge of good and evil.

 

Please notice that it says “the tree of the KNOWLEDGE of good and evil”.

Think about it.

 

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