Crst 290
Essay #1
The source
The source of evil comes from the devil. God is not reasonable for evil. We choose to go
down the path of evil rather than the path of righteous. A moral evil would be when you
intentionally set out to hurt someone or something and a natural evil would be things like floods
or tornados I think there is sin amongst mankind because people simply get tired of trying and
not getting results. We live in a culture of people who seek instant gratification and when we
don't get it we misbehave to get some type of attention.
Humans didn't start out evil, like we are now, the first humans, Adam and Eve, were
perfect, they were born without sin. Satan, in the form of a snake, tempted Eve to eat a piece of
fruit from the tree that God told them not to eat off of. When they disobeyed God, sin came into
their heart and from them on, people where born with a sinful nature. An example of this is in
Genesis 3 women and man made a decision to disobey God’s word. Dr. Towns states “after
Adam sinned, his moral constitution was altered. Man’s altered moral character was transmitted
through the agency of natural propagation.” Sin was brought down by Adam and Eve and was
brought down to generation to generation.
I think it is definitely part of God's judgment on humans and their sin, like in the bible
times, he sent this massive flood, which killed a ton of people. I think it’s a way to get our
attention. I also think its partly because our earth is just aging, getting old and falling apart.
(Genesis Chapters 1, 2 , and 3) NIV.I think that if the belief is biblical. Its okay for people to
defend that people and stand up for God and His word, but if the belief is not biblical than it
wouldn't be right to stand up for something that God doesn't stand up for.
It is so hard to explain that there is a God that loves and shows his grace and
mercy on his people when all you ever see in the world is evil. People question God’s
love when all they hear on the news are new diseases spreading, wars, killings, and
famines; so they use it as an excuse to not accept Christianity. Christians struggle every
day with non-believers who say “if there was a God then there would not be any evil in
this world” but they forget that it was not God that put that evil in this world but us.
In Genesis, God describes how he created the heavens and the earth and
everything else including us. We were his beautiful creation made in his image which
the bible tells us in Genesis 1:27 “So God created mankind in his own image, in the
image of God he created them; male and female he created them.” (NIV). If we were
created in God’s image how can we be created with evil inside of us? We weren’t;
instead when Adam and Eve were placed in the Garden of Eden they were tempted by
the serpent in the garden and later sinned against God. We are the reason that evil
entered into the earth because of our disobedience to what God told us; we created a
barrier between God, who is holy and pure, and us, who are sinful in nature.
Work Cited
Elwell, Walter A. Evangelical Dictionary of Theology. Grand Rapids, MI: Baker
Academic, 2001. Print.
New International Version. New York: Oxford University Press, 2009. Print.
