How do you understand evil?

[Rah nam]

Good and evil are human constructs arising out of our dualistic framework.

[kris]

Originally Posted by bobjob

Does it mean that a small percentage of all new humans - the ones experiencing their very first incarnations as humans - will have the chance to behave in such ways?

I think way too many people act in evil ways for them all to be first timers. Besides if a man can commit evil 15 or 15 million times in one life, what is there for him to stop committing evil in his next life for the 16th or 15 million and first time? If a person benefits each time he commits evil, there is no incentive for him to stop committing evil.

[Izz]

Evil in the human condition, comes with the vices taken to too extremes i.e. greed, wrath, jealousy

There is Day and there is Night.

[bobjob]

Originally Posted by kris

I think way too many people act in evil ways for them all to be first timers.

It's a possibility but we have no idea how many might be first-timers.

Besides if a man can commit evil 15 or 15 million times in one life, what is there for him to stop committing evil in his next life for the 16th or 15 million and first time? If a person benefits each time he commits evil, there is no incentive for him to stop committing evil.

If what you say is the actual situation then it suggests this world is failing miserably in what its role has been said to be - that of providing a possibly-unique environment that enhances the rate of our spiritual progress. I would find that a hugely depressing situation and it might suggest this world is one greatly-attractive to spirits of the lowest order who find freedom to choose how often they come here and freedom to continue their evil ways ad infinitum.

I desperately want to believe that's not the true situation.

I first think of ignorance when I think about evil. I have been ignorant before in my life and realize now in my ignorance I then created evil even if I did not have evil as intent. That is why I suppose we are suppose to get wiser here on earth-school.

The low levels I have not quite figured out yet, what they're about. I mean I think I know of some of them but there is this hierarchy there and it is not black and white, I feel. I could of course be dead wrong about this and then that just means I'm ignorant ;)

Evil is a product of your free-will and blindness to God. Evil only exists to the individual perceiving it. Evil only exists to evil. In a righteous perspective it doesn't exist at all. If you don't know righteousness than all you know is evil. Evil is the mirror reflection of our own sin.

[bobjob]

Originally Posted by asearcher

I first think of ignorance when I think about evil. I have been ignorant before in my life and realize now in my ignorance I then created evil even if I did not have evil as intent.
I could of course be dead wrong about this and then that just means I'm ignorant ;)

We're ALL ignorant of exact details and some will likely not have any idea about anything!

Evil intent may not be there at birth or before birth (using our human definitions of evil) even in most who later become monsters. But perhaps some, maybe lots or even most of them, have a seed of evil in their psyche and the special conditions in this physical world enables them to behave in ways they simply could not behave in the world of the spirit.

I don't know if that's a true representation - it's just my suggestion, a possibility - but we do know that evil and good appear to be 'in the design' of us spirit individuals and it's covered in certain philosophical explanations given by illumined communicators. That's all above my pay-grade though.

[bobjob]

Originally Posted by PureEvil760

Evil is a product of your free-will and blindness to God. Evil only exists to the individual perceiving it........ If you don't know righteousness than all you know is evil..... Evil is the mirror reflection of our own sin.

That's how you perceive what we term 'evil' and it's not definitive.

Originally Posted by BigJohn

Look at the word 'evil'....... backwards...... and you have the word "live".

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BigJohn,

That is it. The survival instinct. To live comes at some other’s expense. In the modern world money is the means for survival…..thus ‘the love of money’……