~ ἆ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~_/ Good and Evil \_~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ᾮ ~ . ~* It is all too easy in this world of iniquity to feel much troubled by feelings of injustice because of the presence of evil in the world alongside the good. The question can be raised “How can God, if he is infinitely good, permit us to suffer the sorrows of evil; after all, who creates evil?” . ~* In history it has been believed by many that God creates both good and evil, but the Master himself, Jesus, never taught such error ~ for indeed Jesus was a man of absolute divine truth ~ . ~* Jesus answered such a question from a young man as follows: . >> “God is love; therefore he must be good, and his goodness is so great and real that it cannot contain the small and unreal things of evil. God is so positively good that there is absolutely no place in him for negative evil. Evil is the immature choosing and the unthinking misstep of those who are resistant to goodness, rejectful of beauty, and disloyal to truth. Evil is only the misadaptation of immaturity or the disruptive and distorting influence of ignorance. Evil is the inevitable darkness which follows upon the heels of the unwise rejection of light. Evil is that which is dark and untrue, and which, when consciously embraced and willfully endorsed, becomes sin” . >> “Your Father in heaven, by endowing you with the power to choose between truth and error, created the potential negative of the positive way of light and life; but such errors of evil are really nonexistent until such a time as a human wills their existence by mischoosing the way of life. And then are such evils later exalted into sin by the knowing and deliberate choice of such a willful and rebellious individual. This is why our Father in heaven permits the good and the evil to go along together until the end of life, just as nature allows the wheat and the tares [unwelcomed weeds] to grow side by side until the harvest.” . ~* On another occasion Jesus also explained: . Good and evil are merely words symbolizing relative levels of human comprehension of the observable universe. If you are ethically lazy and socially indifferent, you can take as your standard of good the current social usages. If you are spiritually laid-back and morally unprogressive, you may take as your standards of good the religious practices and traditions of your contemporaries. But the soul that survives time and emerges into eternity must make a living and personal choice between good and evil as they are determined by the true values of the spiritual standards established by the divine spirit which the Father in heaven has sent to dwell within the heart of man. This indwelling spirit is the standard of personality survival. . Goodness, like truth, is always relative and unfailingly evil-contrasted. It is the perception of these qualities of goodness and truth that enables the evolving souls of men to make those personal decisions of choice which are essential to eternal survival. . The spiritually blind individual who logically follows scientific dictation, social usage, and religious system of belief stands in grave danger of sacrificing his moral freedom and losing his spiritual liberty. Such a soul is destined to become an intellectual parrot, a social automaton, and a slave to religious authority. . Goodness is always growing toward new levels of the increasing liberty of moral self-realization and spiritual personality attainment — the discovery of, and identification with, the fragment of God that dwells within man. An experience is good when it heightens the appreciation of beauty, augments the moral will, enhances the discernment of truth, enlarges the capacity to love and serve one’s fellows, exalts the spiritual ideals, and unifies the supreme human motives with the eternal plans of God within, all of which lead directly to an increased desire to do the Father’s will, thereby fostering the divine passion to find God and to be more like him. . As you ascend and develop, you will find increasing goodness and diminishing evil in perfect accordance with your capacity for goodness-experience and truth-discernment. The ability to entertain error or experience evil will not be fully lost until the ascending human soul achieves final spirit levels. . Goodness is living, relative, always progressing, invariably a personal experience, and everlastingly correlated with the discernment of truth and beauty. Goodness is found in the recognition of the positive truth-values of the spiritual level, which must, in human experience, be contrasted with the negative counterpart — the shadows of potential evil. . Until you attain Paradise levels, goodness will always be more of a quest than a possession, more of a goal than an experience of attainment. But even as you hunger and thirst for righteousness, you experience increasing satisfaction in the partial attainment of goodness. The presence of goodness and evil in the world is in itself positive proof of the existence and reality of man’s moral will, the personality, which thus identifies these values and is also able to choose between them. . By the time of the attainment of Paradise the ascending mortal’s capacity for identifying the self with true spirit values has become so enlarged as to result in the attainment of the perfection of the possession of the light of life. Such a perfected spirit personality becomes so wholly, divinely, and spiritually unified with the positive and supreme qualities of goodness, beauty, and truth that there remains no possibility that such a righteous spirit would cast any negative shadow of potential evil when exposed to the searching luminosity of the divine light of the infinite Rulers of Paradise. In all such spirit personalities, goodness is no longer partial, contrastive, and comparative; it has become divinely and spiritually complete; it approaches the purity and perfection of the Supreme, of God the Universal Father. . The possibility of evil is necessary to moral choosing, but not the reality of it. A shadow is only relatively real. Actual evil is not necessary as a personal experience. Potential evil acts equally well as a decision stimulus in the realms of moral progress on the lower levels of spiritual development. Evil becomes a reality of personal experience only when a moral mind makes evil its choice. . ~* It is all down to free will: God’s gift to each and every one of us ~ In the face of materialism, iniquity, adversity, dilemmas and all other choices, let us strive to perform the Will of God. Let us accept His Fatherhood, let us accept the brotherhood of man and let us serve our brothers and sisters in love and only love ~ . >>>> It’s your free will, therefore it’s your choice..... Make divine choices and move into the light and life of Truth, Beauty, and Goodness >>> . >>>> An Enhanced Revelation of Truth >>> . ~ For humanitys spiritual advancement ~ . . Jesusanity - Join the Public Group, ask questions and learn more https://facebook/groups/jesusanity/ . Jesusanity. For all the World . jesusanity.org . Jesusanity is here ~ The time is now....... . ~ Ȋ ᾎM >> . ~ Ŝtepђen >> Ρurveyor of Ʈrue Ŝpirituality ~ Ŝpiritual Ʈruth >> including the Teachings of Jesus which shall be the basis of the revival for the spiritual evolution of Ӈumanity ~ . The Spirit of Truth in the New Temple of the Heart . ~ I offer guidance only as the truth lies within your own hearts ~ Open up to the fragment of God that indwells within you and He shall surely direct your paths ~ Seek and thou shalt find the Spirit of Truth within ~ . ~ WE ARE ONE >> . ~ ἆ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~_/ Ʈђe Kingdom of God is within all \_~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ᾮ ~ ~ ἆ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~_/ Embrace it with all of your heart \_~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ᾮ ~ . ~ ἆ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~_/ Ȋ ᾎM ἆlphḁ ḁnd ᾮmeģḁ \_~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ᾮ ~ ~ Ƒ†Ḹ _/ Ʈђe Ƒirst ḁnd ṱђe Lḁst ~ Ʈђe Beģinninģ ḁnd ṱђe Ẽnd \_ B†Ẽ ~ ~
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