Thursday, March 1, 2007
On Knowing Good and Evil
Absolute goodness is found in God. One cannot know evil apart from knowing good, but one can know good apart from knowing evil. It is absolute goodness that gives definition (not authorship) to evil and not the other way around. God knows evil for it is defined in terms opposite him. Augustine was right when he said that evil is the privation of good. Man knows evil because it is a part of him. Thus is the meaning of Gen. 3:22 "Then the Lord God said, 'Behold, the man has become like one of Us, to know good and evil."
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Welcome to the blogsphere Robert...or as we call you here RRRRRrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrobert!!
I’m amused when my pagan friends deny the existence of God (an impossibility, in my opinion. see Romans 1:19) or the existence of absolute morality then go off and decry the violence and the injustices in our society. Without an absolute standard given to us by our creator, it’s anything goes. Welcome to the blogosphere Robert. I look forward to your musings.
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