Beyond good and evil

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Jane_Doe22

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So you're suggesting that the concept of good and evil originally exist in the minds of divine being's?
If a person turns to a little child and rapes them, then that is evil.

It's not "evil" because humans declared it to be so, but because it intrinsically is evil. There's no getting around that.

Entanglement, do you find a child getting raped to only be evil because man declared it to be, or is it intrinsically evil?
 

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If a person turns to a little child and rapes them, then that is evil.

It's not "evil" because humans declared it to be so, but because it intrinsically is evil. There's no getting around that.

Entanglement, do you find a child getting raped to only be evil because man declared it to be, or is it intrinsically evil?
Depends on what you believe :)
 

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I was asking specifically about your views. That's why I asked you by name.
My view's are that human beings invent concepts about right and wrong based on what their personal beliefs dictate, rather than what they actually know specifically what's really right or wrong for them.
 

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In the mind of God. God knows the end from the beginning, and He already knew BEFORE He created Adam that sin and evil would enter into this world. He also planned a remedy through Christ, who would not only be the Last (or Second) Adam, but who would also establish the righteous Kingdom of God on earth as King of kings and Lord of lords.

"O happy fault, O necessary sin of Adam,
which gained for us so great a Redeemer!"

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