Since childhood, we have been told fairy tales about good knights and evil dragons with women Hedgehogs, where the inevitable ending is always marked by the victory of Good over Evil. Until a certain age, we firmly believe that in real life everything is exactly like this. However, the older we get, the more it seems that everything is not as prosaic as in fairy tales.
Want to know more? Now I will tell you why in life Good does not always triumph over Evil. First, let's ask ourselves the question: “Was there a boy?” - “Are we good enough to win?”
There is a popular philosophical phrase that Evil devours Evil and destroys itself. I can confidently say that most of us are EVIL. That’s why they self-destruct each other with brutal speed and appetite. But more on that later. First, let's look at the question of what is Good and what is Evil, after which it will become clearer why one always defeats the other and nothing else.
Light and darkness
People still talk about good and evil. Many people initially believe that goodness is everything good and useful. For example, helping another person or sharing what you have with another.
But what is good for one will be evil for another . It all depends on conditions, views, judgments and circumstances. For example, money. For one person this is good, but for another it is bad. Or knowledge - it can bring happiness to a smart person, and death to a stupid person.
For example, a classmate gave his homework to a friend to copy. A friend passed the assignment and, without making any effort, received a good mark. At this moment, the person did not understand the material and received less knowledge. Another time he will ask someone else to do the job for him. So, he will get used to impunity. Therefore, the understanding of good is objective.
But everything good always fights back against the bad. You can also give an example from life when good triumphs over evil. For example, a criminal who breaks the law will sooner or later be found and punished. But he can flavor his anger with a bit of repentance if he admits to what he did.
Or, for example, someone found a wallet on the street and returned it to the owner - this is correct. After all, when a person acts well, he purifies himself and sets an example for others of how to act in a given situation. After all, everyone has a piece of both positive and negative.
The main thing is to “wake up” all the good things and not let the bad things “sprout”.
This is called the victory of humanity over its dark side. Because goodness is an impulse of the soul . People who do good things have an easier life than those who are bitter. Kindness makes the world brighter and cleaner, brighter and more colorful.
Sometimes demonstrating kindness requires a lot of effort, love for loved ones, a willingness to sacrifice anything, and is definitely not a human flaw. After all, good is something bright and pure. And it will never go unnoticed, and it’s a pleasure to create it.
Therefore, good will defeat evil, no matter how bad the person is. We must remember that all good things will come back like a boomerang. Thus, the following can be said about kindness:
- you need to help others selflessly and without a second thought;
- show it constantly, and not from time to time;
- There is no need to respond to evil with even greater evil.
Some people even say that kindness is a kind of courage, because thinking about doing good and doing that good are different concepts.
Often the second is much more difficult to do, because not everyone may have the courage.
Evil
For most people, the concept of Good is always associated with a benevolent attitude towards YOURSELF. They treat me well - then I treat others well. In the absence of a good attitude towards themselves, most are always wary of others.
What is a wary attitude towards others? This is fear. This is the fear of the possibility of a HOSTILE attitude towards oneself on the part of another. If we imply such a possibility, then we are the FIRST to set ourselves up for a hostile attitude towards another. Yes, just in case. Armed means protected. And let the other one prove that he is not an enemy, that he is a friend. Do you get it? You meet a person on the street, and by default he treats you as an enemy, expects hostile actions from you and takes a defensive, defensive position. How does this make you feel? If they defend themselves from you, it means they are hostile towards you, they see you as an enemy, and they are ready to attack you. And if so, you have a real enemy in front of you. You also need to protect yourself from it, and take the defensive just in case.
All problems of humanity come from Fear, my dears. Even Master Yoda from the epic Star Wars, which Lucas created, used to say: “ Fear opens access to the dark side. Fear gives rise to anger, anger gives rise to hatred, hatred is the key to suffering .” Lucas seems to be well versed in these concepts.
A person who has Fear in his soul is always weaker than one who is free from it. For Fear is a barrier, an obstacle that prevents a person from making a choice. For example, a simple example: I like to eat potatoes with mushrooms. But I have a strong fear of wild animals that live in the forest. This Fear prevents me from picking mushrooms and eating them. I am forced to look for other ways: ask neighbors or buy from a store. The problem is that Fear prevents me from simply going and picking mushrooms when I want, and even stocking up for the winter. The greater the number of Fears in the heart, the more barriers. The less freedom.
People who have Fears of others often launch preemptive strikes against them. The barbs, flat jokes, humiliation, insults, rudeness that everyone encounters every day in transport, shops, on the street, in the family - all these are just attempts to protect oneself, humiliating, psychologically destroying the one whom a person fears in his heart. Need I say that such a person experiences MUTUAL aggression from people who are now afraid of him?
In other words, Fear gives rise to endless conflict and multiplies the amount of Evil. The multiplication of Evil gives rise to the multiplication of Fear. This is the path down to the destruction of the surrounding reality and self-destruction within oneself.
Constant internal Fear in the heart is an excellent environment for the development of neuroses, psychoses, various psychosomatic diseases, panic attacks, and depression.
Evil devours Evil and self-destructs. The Path of Evil is a path to nowhere, to oblivion and non-existence. Eliminated from the playing field. Losers and losers. An evil person is a weak person.
An angry person is a person full of Fears . Please remember this, we will need it below.
Good and Evil in the Story of Noah
(Genesis 6:5) And the Lord saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth, and that every intent of the thoughts of their hearts was only evil continually.
After the flood, Noah is presented as the second Adam. Many parallels can be drawn between them.
God blessed Adam and Eve, and after the flood he blesses Noah.
Adam ate the fruit and saw that he was naked. Noah also ate of the fruit of the vine, and as a result became naked. Adam and Eve had two sons and there was a problem between them. And Noah had a son Ham, who also did bad things.
We see a constant confrontation between good and evil and most often evil wins. But where does it all end?
If you look at the entire history of the patriarchs, then one of the most thematic lines that runs through the entire book of Genesis is the question of the future heir. Who will be the heir who will inherit the blessing? Who will be the progenitor of the Messiah - Jesus Christ, who is to come into this world?
Genesis: The Beginning
The first day. The beginning of creation.
God created light.
(Genesis 1:4) And God saw the light, that it was good, and God separated the light from the darkness.
Second day.
(Genesis 1:7) And God made the firmament, and separated the waters that were under the firmament from the waters that were above the firmament. And so it became.
On the second day, God does not say “tof” - good. Why?
The third day.
Water and land. Vegetable world.
(Genesis 1:10) And God called the dry land earth, and the gathering of waters he called seas. And God saw that it was good.
(Genesis 1:12) And the earth brought forth grass, grass yielding seed according to its kind, and tree bearing fruit, in which is its seed according to its kind. And God saw that it was good.
Day four.
The appearance of the sun, moon, stars.
(Genesis 1:17) and God set them in the expanse of the heaven to give light on the earth, and to rule the day and the night, and to separate the light from the darkness. And God saw that it was good.
Day five.
Living world
(Genesis 1:21) And God created the great fish and every living creature that moves that the waters brought forth according to their kinds, and every winged bird according to its kind. And God saw that it was good.
Day six.
Creation of the creature
(Genesis 1:25) And God created the beasts of the earth according to their kinds, and the cattle according to their kinds, and every creeping thing that creeps on the earth according to their kinds. And God saw that it was good.
Creation of Man
(Genesis 16:31) And God saw everything that He had made, and, behold, it was very good. And there was evening and there was morning: the sixth day.
good and evil
Why doesn't God say on the second day that this is good?
The rabbis considered this version that every time God creates for a person, it is good for the person. On the second day, when God separates the water below the firmament from the water above the firmament, He creates space for fish and birds. In fact, on this day God did not create anything directly for man.
God creates everything very well and there is no evil in him. The only hint that there is evil somewhere far away is the tree that grows in the middle of paradise - the tree of the knowledge of good and evil.
The world that God created is a good world. If Adam and Eve had not tasted the forbidden fruit, then everything would have remained that way. But evil came and began to multiply quickly.
All the good that God did and put into this world disappeared somewhere and evil reigned.
God will never destroy what can still be saved
God created man in His image and likeness, and as long as man keeps this image within himself, he will not be destroyed. But if a person completely distorts the image and likeness of God in himself, and ceases to be a man, then there is no meaning for his existence. The Lord stops the spread of evil in order to give good a chance to spread further and fill our world.
Abraham
God chooses Abraham and his family. And here Satan is trying to do everything to bring evil into Abraham’s family. Isaac, the son of Abraham, had two sons - Esau and Jacob. The question arose between them: who should receive the blessing of the firstborn? Esau allows evil in his heart, and Jacob, by cunning, lures the birthright from his brother and deceives his father. Thus, evil also enters Jacob's heart.
And today the enemy wants this evil to penetrate the heart of every person. But the Lord wants us to stand guard over goodness.
Jacob had twelve sons, and not all of the sons were of good behavior.
The first son, Reuben, did a very bad thing. In essence, he dishonored his father, thereby losing his position as the first-born son.
Simeon and Levi acted very cruelly, slaughtering an entire village of people who had not done anything bad to them and were ready to make reconciliation.
Joseph's story
Joseph and the Brothers
The most difficult situation occurs when all the brothers hate Joseph and sell him into slavery.
The inhabitants of the land of Canaan, the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah, were so corrupt that the Lord destroyed these people. But there are people who are good and kind, who listen to God, and are ready to act according to the will of God.
Joseph is shown as an open, pure person. There is an interesting point in his history. Pharaoh has a dream consisting of two parts.
The 1st part of the dream is about fat and thin spikelets. And the thin spikelets devour the fat spikelets.
Part 2 of the dream about cows.
(Genesis 41:2) And behold, seven cows, good in appearance and fat in flesh, came out of the river, and they grazed among the reeds.
The word used here is “tof” - good.
(Genesis 41:3) But behold, after them seven other cows came out of the river, thin in appearance and lean in flesh, and stood near those cows on the bank of the river; and the thin-looking cows and the lean ones ate up the seven good-looking and fat cows.
The word used here is "ra" - evil. Symbolically, we can say that evil absorbs good. We see that when evil destroys good, these thin cows remain thin, that is, they remain evil.
Good and Evil in Genesis
The book of Genesis reveals to us the character of God.
In our time, Satan is trying to do everything to distort and pervert the understanding of the character of God. Often he does this in two extremes:
- God is very tough and even cruel in some ways, Who looks to punish people for their mistakes.
- God is a good-natured old man, who sits somewhere in heaven and looks so condescendingly at everything that happens here on earth.
The theme of good and evil begins in Genesis and runs throughout the Bible.
Good (good) - tof (in Hebrew).
Evil is ra (in Hebrew).
Joseph and brothers
Even in the life of Joseph himself, such a turning point occurs when the enemy tries to let evil enter Joseph's heart when his brothers came to him. And what does human flesh tell him? He does not open up to his brothers at first and leaves Simeon hostage. Why? Most likely Simeon was evil. And further in the Bible it is not written that Joseph communicated with Simeon. But then, after all, good prevailed, and Joseph revealed himself to his brothers.
When Jacob dies and they are all already in Egypt, the brothers are afraid that Joseph might take revenge on them.
Read the article “The Power of Forgiveness”
(Genesis 50:16 -17) And they sent to Joseph, saying, “Your father commanded him before he died, saying, ‘Say this to Joseph: forgive your brothers the guilt and their sin, for they have done you evil. And now forgive the guilt of the servants of the God of your father. Joseph cried when they told him this.
(Genesis 50:18 -19) His brothers themselves came and fell down before him, and said: Behold, we are your servants. And Joseph said, Fear not, for I fear God.
What wonderful words Joseph then speaks.
(Genesis 50:20) Behold, you intended evil against me, but God turned it into good to accomplish what is now: to preserve the lives of a great number of people.
How God turns evil into good
This story teaches what our God is like. He can take evil and turn it into good and there are many such examples in the Bible.
Simeon and Levi massacred an entire village. And when Jacob, already on his deathbed, blesses all his children, he said to Levi: in fact, I cannot bless you and your descendants will live in dispersion. At that moment it was like a curse. But God turns a bad sentence into good, into a blessing. When the tribe of Levi turned out to be faithful to God, the Lord bestowed upon them a special blessing. Yes, they lived in dispersion, they did not have their own land, but they became a tribe of priests. They received a blessing.
Our God does not condone mistakes and will turn everything into good in the end. Our Lord Jesus Christ did this on the cross.
