Good and Evil

What drives the good and the evil of this world? What fuels the evil mind, and romanticizes the gentle heart? Is it God? Or is it just innate human nature? As a person of faith I believe that it’s God that has created both the good and the evil. God is the creator of this world and all that inhabits its dimensions – and good and evil is surly a small piece of the handy work. One thing about God is that He has given us free will, and this free will allows us to choose to permeate either the good or the bad through the actions of our lives.

A person’s beliefs are the lever to the triggering of their actions. Whether you believe in God or not, that which you believe is going to be the driver of your actions. A person can be good without being grounded in a belief of a higher deity – if their beliefs circle around the welfare and social-justice of a fellow human being. In religion good and ethical behavior is usually taught. So if one has devoted their lives to believe in a particular faith that expresses this – than the lever that is attached to their beliefs is expected to be gauged to good. So good is what they practice – even with falling into bad temptations at times.

Good and evil has been shaped and evaluated through the “fall of man” of Adam and Eve. This is where most original sin theologies are birthed from. But really what is sin? Is sin something in particular – or that which seems to go against common practice or morale? Sin to me is that which tends to go against the grain of the good of a systematic society. So in this there is a bias to naming exactly what sin is. I lean towards the canonical scriptures to govern my life by, but others may not. The bottom line is that regardless of what faith one is attached to – if any – there is a common knowledge of morale that one should uphold that will direct one to govern their lives and actions in a manner that is compatible for positive interaction with all of humanity. This restrictive plumbline is true whether you name it human nature – or God.