Good and evil. Their concept and causes of occurre

Sources of Good (When one of them becomes a source of faith)

“And those who have done good in the resurrection of life will come out” (John 5:29). This is what Jesus Christ said, to whom the Father of Heaven gave judgment to all men (John 5:22). From this we can conclude that all those people who do good in their lives will find eternal life with God after death on earth. The creation of goodness in his life is of the greatest importance not only for his salvation, but also mainly for the fulfillment of the most important purpose of his life on earth: the acquisition of love for God. When God created the first people of Adam and Eve, God gave them everything necessary for life in paradise, except for the concept of good and evil, the knowledge of which they did not need, since they did nothing wrong for God and for each other. But as soon as they committed sin by refusing to believe God, they committed evil. And God soon warned the son of Adam and Eve Cain about this knowledge, as a warning to the new man after the sinners of his parents: “If you do not do good, then at the door the sin lies; he draws you to himself, but you dominate him” (Gen. 4:7)

Doing the right thing to God is good for God. "Oh, man! It is said to you that good and what the Lord demands of you: act justly, to love the works of mercy, and to walk humily before your God” (Micah 6:8) “Shy away from evil and do good; seek and follow the world” (Ps 34:14) “Shy away from evil, and do good, and you will live forever.” 37:27) “Hear evil and love good” (Amos 5:15), “and they will come out of the righteous in the resurrection of life, and who have made evil in the resurrection of judgment” (John 5:29). The Bible warns people by saying “Whoever understands to do good and does not do it, it is a sin” (James 4:17 The Bible calls on believers to do good to all people, and especially for believers. “So, until there is time, we will do good to all, and to our own wicked faith” (Galatians 6:10).

I was once asked by a relative: how do you divide people, on what main basis. And I told her that God had been divided long ago, people from their creation, saying to Cain, “And the Lord God said to Cain, Why are you upset? and why did your face descend? If you do good, do you not raise your faces? And if you do not do good, then at the door sin lies; he draws you to him, but rule over him” (Genesis 4:6:7). That is, people should all do good to each other in their joint life and this divides them into two camps in life. In the course of these actions, man himself changes, only good deeds can bring us closer together and at the same time we discover ourselves and affirm ourselves in who we do good, and the receiving good begins to open up to us and get closer to us. So step by step we change ourselves and others and, seeing it, God’s Spirit settles into us, and this is the birth of love in man.
Therefore, we cannot learn to love another person, we cannot love people, since love for someone is always a joint action with God, but to learn to do good to others people all owe, and this is the way of birth and formation, love in people. So the words of the elder: “we must learn to love people, and first of all, of course, those with whom we live and work nearby” we must understand: learn to do good to people.

To do good for someone is to do good for him that would help him in life. It could also be something that will help him avoid some danger or simply help to find what he dreams of in his life to be happy. Every person who does good to people with a sincere desire to help them, does the right thing for God, because God loves people and tries to save them from evil; tries to help them do their deeds righteously, while giving them the right to choose between good and evil. Giving a person complete freedom to exercise the right to choose, God does not want to use violence, since violence is an obstacle to the formation of a person in his school of life with various circumstances, solving which, a person acquires love for people and ultimately to God. And this contains the whole meaning of human life on earth. The meaning of life in eternity with God for man is impossible to understand, while on earth.

To do good is to strive to be like God, to strive to find His righteousness. Therefore, the Bible says to every person, “Whoever does good is from God” (3John 11) “walk the way of the good and hold the paths of the righteous” (Proverbs 2:20). Understanding how important it is to do good for people, we can say that a person who does good in his life changes himself so much that he becomes close to God, and this is possible only when his human spirit, which is inherited from Adam and Eve, is more and more filled with the Holy Spirit. All this during life finds the limit of the state when love for people, and without love true good is not done, love for people leads a person, even the unbeliever, to faith and love for God. All this is a condition for eternal life.

But is this not a contradiction for others, the basic statements in the Bible about obtaining eternal life for people? “For you are saved through faith, and this is not of you, God’s gift. It is not from doing so that no one will boast.”

2:8, 9). Yes, salvation is given only through faith. Faith always implies repentance and love for God. And first of all, love for Jesus Christ, to the Lord crucified on Calvary. Repentance and love for God can happen for a person at the same time as the emergence of faith in God in the process of life, but can happen later. Faith, which finds love for God, of course, and repentance arise in people when they are freed from their selfishness, when they begin to experience and sympathize with people, starting with their loved ones. This is the beginning of the acquisition of love for the mother, father, relatives and other people. At the same time, wishing to help them, a person can do things that help people, even sacrificing something necessary for himself. By doing truly good to people, man finds love in himself, and therefore finds God in himself, for “God is love, and he who abides in love abides in God, and God is in him” (1 John 4:16)

Everyone who is in love cannot be unbeliever. That is, every person who does good in his life, even if he is unbeliever, will surely become a believer. And this in time can be different: for some it may be a short time from the day of gaining love for people, and in others it can only be at the end of their life on earth. But it will surely be, as they, gaining love for people, gradually gain more and more of the Holy Spirit, find God in themselves.
That is why we can say that there are no contradictions in the Bible. By gaining love for people, we gain love for God, and love for God always includes faith, as love for someone is always based on what they are. That is, good deeds that arise from love to people, lead a person to gain faith and love for God. God does the salvation of such people and gives them eternal life. The Bible tells us all this.

The sources of good can be different. It is one thing when good is done with sincere desire, with our inner need to do something necessary and good for people. The source of good is love, which speaks of the belonging of the Deity in people. Another thing is when good is done in order to glorify yourself in order to rise in the eyes of others or to get some other benefit. Such charity is spiritless. It does not bring a person closer to God, and therefore it does not bring any good to the good. Doing good without meaning based on love, doing good for nothing, doing good according to vanity - never corresponded to God, and believers should strive to be like God.
“And if I give away all my estates and give my body to be burned, but I have no love, there is no benefit to me.” (1 Cor. 13:3)

A man who does good because of his selfishness, and does good for love completely different people. If a person does good for love, then there is God in him. Such a person may be unbeliever, but it is only a temporary state in his life, when his thoughts are sometimes contradictory, when his human spirit is still trying to resist the full Spirit of the Spirit of God-the Spirit, which will surely help him to gain faith sooner or later. And so to find eternal life, as the epigraph from the Bible says at the beginning of this article. “So, until there is time, we will do good to all, and to your own foot in faith” (Galatians 6:10)

Sources of evil
And he said to his wife, “Has God said, ‘Do not eat of any tree in Paradise?’ And the wife said unto the serpent, We can eat fruit from the trees, only the fruit of the tree which, which among Paradise, said God, eat them, and do not touch them, that you may not die. And he said to his wife, No, you shall not die, but God knows that in the day when you taste them, your eyes shall be opened, and you shall be like gods, knowing good and evil. And the wife saw that the tree was good for food, and that it was pleasant to the eyes, and cordily, because he gave knowledge; and she took it fruit, and ate it; and she also gave it to her husband, and he ate. (Genesis 1:6)

God, when the first people created, did not protect them from the devil, knowing that they would commit sin, giving them the freedom to choose their actions. Without freedom of choice, a person would be just a robot, and robots cannot find love in themselves. Without love, man cannot be with God and men in eternity. From the order of man's sin, it can be seen that sin was preceded by temptation, but sin arose not from temptation, but from the consent to fulfill the desired (to fulfill the temptation), and for this purpose it was necessary to give up faith to God, not to believe the Word of God. All other sins, whatever sources they contain, are always a violation of the Word of God, which for people are now determined only by the last Law (New Testament).

So the sin of the first people contained the unbelief of God, and then the desire to eat the fruit, as well as "become like gods." The bite of the fruit meant consent to commit sin. The knowledge of good and evil was received by Adam and Eve only after committing sin, as a gift from God, as a guide for the lives of all people. After the fall of the human spirit began to contain the spirit of sinful, diabolical, the spirit of temptation to fulfill not the Word of God, but its whim - all that is what our body and our soul. Humans have become animals, humans have become mortal.

The main condition for the survival and existence of any living organism is actions aimed at satisfying their needs at the expense of the world around it, whether it will harm everything else and other living organisms or not. So one growing plant closes the other from the sun, not caring that it may die. This is the selfishness that is inherent in people! The source of sin according to the survival program that God gave to people is selfishness (inherent not only to man, but also to animals), when a person puts himself first, his desire and this leads to the rejection of someone or something. But it is evil. The source of evil is selfishness. The creation of a person (or other living organism) is impossible without a person producing evil. Can we conclude that God should not have created all life? Of course, such a conclusion would be wrong.

Evil is a necessary consequence of the process of human life, that is, is a necessary accompanying action in the realization of the program's goal of survival for both humans and animals and plants. Evil becomes any of their actions when it is directed except for its satisfaction to violate the conditions of survival of another person (living organism). Therefore, evil, as a necessary consequence of life, is realized only by a person (living organism) and, in order to avoid it, a person must show his will, while limiting himself when a person, when making a choice of a particular act, must refuse to commit evil to him.

According to the program of survival (program of life) all living things: man, animals, plants and others, can preserve their lives and develop only if the actions of such actions, which will most fully satisfy their vital needs. This is ensured by the right of choice given by God both for man and for all living things. Before committing sin, the first people Adam and Eve were in paradise, in communion with God, and guided by the Word of God in their life together and activities, and this was their difference from animals and everything else that lives. Their normal life, according to the survival program, was provided by two conditions: the right to choose all actions and the execution of the Word of God.

When meeting with the devil's serpent, Eve, according to the right of choice granted to her by God, refused to fulfill the Word of God, and therefore her right to choose was determined by her personal desire to do what she wanted, even if it contradicted the Word of God. Such an act of fulfilling one's own desire to the detriment of God or to another person is called selfishness and it is laid down by the program, since otherwise the existence of all living things, including man, is impossible. God foresaw the sin of man, and therefore created for man a tree of knowledge of good and evil, guided by which a person can avoid doing evil to people.

Note: 1) Program- term, in translation meaning "prescription", that is, a preliminary description of upcoming events or actions. 2) The history of the emergence of the conscience and morality of man begins with the acquisition of the concept of good and evil after the commission of the original sin by Adam and Eve. Before committing sin, their conscience was not necessary in life, because they did not commit evil. The concept of good and evil is defined by God for man and is the basis for his salvation and the attainment of eternal life with God!