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    Care to comment on the rest of my post? Care to present an alternative explanation?

    I didn't think so.

    But in any case i should also explain your aversion to discussing anything pertaining to God and/or spirituality:

    The parable of the wheat and the tares explains this concept well:

    “The kingdom of heaven is like a man who sowed good seed in his field; 25 but while men slept, his enemy came and sowed tares among the wheat and went his way. 26 But when the grain had sprouted and produced a crop, then the tares also appeared. 27 So the servants of the owner came and said to him, ‘Sir, did you not sow good seed in your field? How then does it have tares?’ 28 He said to them, ‘An enemy has done this.’ The servants said to him, ‘Do you want us then to go and gather them up?’ 29 But he said, ‘No, lest while you gather up the tares you also uproot the wheat with them. 30 Let both grow together until the harvest, and at the time of harvest I will say to the reapers, “First gather together the tares and bind them in bundles to burn them, but gather the wheat into my barn.” ’ ”

    There are two types of beings on this planet. There are what I call the organic portals who are mortal souls, that is, they have no spiritual component. Then there are the immortal souls which is who Christ was addressing. The tares resemble wheat in the physical sense, in the same way a homo sapien resembles a human. The Wheat are Spirit beings incarnate in mortal form. The tares are genetic monkey dna scaffolds with no spirit present.

    According to your own scientific darwinian rationalism, you ARE quite literally inert genetic monkey trash, living on a speck of dust floating through a void. THAT IS YOUR COUNTER ARGUMENT.
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    I just asked you to define the word define. What is so hard about that?

    Why can't I use the bible as a reference for the origin of evil? I think you are conflating 'scientific rationalism' with philosophy.

    You have a straightforward response for the question of evil, where it came from:

    The Devil--Satan—one of God’s highest angels--rebelled against God's spiritual universe and spiritual laws which govern and regulate it--and became the Fallen Angel. This fallen angel violated God's laws and partook of darkness, rather than light. Hence the quote (Christ) "I beheld Satan as lightning fall from heaven."

    The heavenly domains (eden) are the manifestation of God’s mind, and reflect life. The biblical ‘fall of man’ is the spiritual man becoming conscious of the physical man, and knowing the difference between the two. That is, the man made in God’s image yielded to the minds of the fallen angels, and mortal propagation is the result.

    Evil (the mind of lust) cannot produce good fruit, that is why the mortal dies. This material universe was 'manifested' as a consequence of Lucifer's rebellion against God. This entire finite multiverse is God manifesting the opposite of himself -- the mortal concept -- as the result of their transgression. 

    This is essentially the dual nature of all existence.

    Spiritual life is Internal—physical life is external. Spiritual life is a reality—the Truth—and exists in the divine mind. So-called physical life is error and is unreal to the divine mind and only exists in the mind of the senses of the mortal creation. Spiritual life as manifested in physical life is the reflection and the image of God, the Reality of Spirit; all spiritual life, as manifested in physical life, is derived from Spirit. There is not any inherent life in matter.

    As the conception of evil fades out of the consciousness of the minds of the beings created in God’s image, then the ‘physical’ counterpart of the realm ceases to exist - God has filled that void.

    The ‘void’ is simply the consciousness of the unreal (mortal) creation, in its myriad of forms. The mortal creation in its natural state is unconscious of God. And the immortal creation in its natural state is unconscious of the mortal creation (death). One is real, the other is unreal. One is infinite, the other is finite.

    That is, the mortal creation was not spiritually conceived by God. The mortal creation is conceived through the law of lust. The spiritual 'man' is conceived by God, 'constructed' of the same stuff - pure and unconditional love.This is the correct interpretation of the biblical 'garden of eden' story where man was ordered not to eat of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, lest he should die.

    Death (the mortal creation) is the absence of God's mind in the consciousness of the soul.

    Perhaps what I am stating is part myth and embellishment, after all, the scripture never stated what the war between Michael and Lucifer was, it just jumps right in “and war broke out in heaven, Michael and his angels fought against the dragon, and the dragon and his angels fought, and prevailed not…”

    The fallen angels rebelled against God's spiritual kingdom before the material universe was created, and the material creation and carnal man represents the power of that rebellion. That is why you do not understanding jack squat of anything spiritual -- you think with a carnal physical brain.

    Now go ahead and befuddle me with your infinite cognitive non-sequiturs, I'll be waiting.
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    define the word 'define'
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    God = infinite Love
    Evil = absence of Love

    I don't accept that 'evil' as a thing - it's an umbrella word to describe a vast range of different phenomenon with not a lot in common - so it cannot have an origin in my worldview.
    I agree that the definition is subject to individual interpretation, but in a broad sense the above definition is satisfactory in the context of this post. Evil is the absence of God i.e. what God is not.

    .This is far from agreed upon. There are nondualists, for instance. There are those (including some physicists) who believe that everything is consciousness and matter is an illusion.

    I'm not sure how this is at odds with the heaven/earth model of existence. The physical domains (matter) can still be considered to be a construct of consciousness.
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    Influences? Aristotle, Plato, Buddha, Leibniz among others.