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Who Decides Good and Evil?

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Satan convinced Eve she could determine good and evil on her own without God's help.

“For God knows that when you eat from [the tree] your eyes will be opened, and you will be like God, knowing good and evil.” ~ the Serpent, Genesis 3:5

So Eve decided that the forbidden fruit was not forbidden. It was not bad for her; it was good for her. And she ate it. It tasted good, and it brought death, decay, insecurity, injustice, murder, and every imaginable evil into her world (Genesis 3).

Satan lied—she could not determine good from evil on her own.

Sadly, throughout history Satan has continued to deceive people with this lie.

He has convinced some people to create pagan gods to define good and evil. He convinced others to deny God and depend on their human intellect. And he's actively convincing modern ex-vangelicals to define good and evil in ways that make them popular with the world.

Romans 1:16-32 explains what happens when people decide good and evil on their own.

So let's remember this important truth: If every person on earth disagreed with God's commands, every person on earth would be wrong. Period.
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God decided which actions are good and which actions are evil. That never changed or will change.
 
Who decides good and evil?

Humans. Society. That may be 3 people, 10, 50, or millions, depends on where you live and your level of exposure.
 
Airyaman said:
Who decides good and evil?

Humans. Society. That may be 3 people, 10, 50, or millions, depends on where you live and your level of exposure.
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Yeah, we're livin' that scenario...how's that workin'?
 
Most humans have built-in empathy. With empathy, you're able to put your feelings in the proverbial other shoes.
Unfortunately, studies have shown that a lot of powerful people (Money. Family power, politicians, CEO's..etc) have little empathy.
Apes are humanity's closest living relatives. In fact, people are apes; humans share about 98 percent of their DNA with chimpanzees. The non-human types of apes are divided into two groups: great apes — gorillas, bonobos, chimpanzees and orangutans — and lesser apes — gibbons and siamangs.
 
Airyaman said:
Like's it's always worked, most likely.
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Airyaman said:
Who decides good and evil?

Humans. Society. That may be 3 people, 10, 50, or millions, depends on where you live and your level of exposure.
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That's right. And it's not just a snap decision, but one that developed and evolved with the humans and their society.

"Ethical rules [decisions on good and evil]... were not originally invented by some enlightened human lawgiver [or even some almighty God]. They go deep into our evolutionary past. They were with our ancestral line from a time before we were human." - Sagan
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Who decides? Even kids know it's Santa Clause.
 
Elora said:
Satan convinced Eve she could determine good and evil on her own without God's help.
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This is a pet peeve of mine: nowhere in the Bible does it say that Satan tempted Eve. Genesis just says “the serpent.” And Gen 3:14“And the Lord God said unto the serpent, Because thou hast done this, thou art cursed above all cattle, and above every beast of the field; upon thy belly shalt thou go, and dust shalt thou eat all the days of thy life:” clearly is referring to an animal and does not seem at all similar to Satan as depicted in Job, or tempting Jesus.

In 2 Cor 11:3 Paul mentions the serpent, but makes no connection to Satan. “But I fear, lest by any means, as the serpent beguiled Eve through his subtilty, so your minds should be corrupted from the simplicity that is in Christ.”

In Revelation 12:3-4 we have “
And there appeared another wonder in heaven; and behold a great red dragon, having seven heads and ten horns, and seven crowns upon his heads.

4 And his tail drew the third part of the stars of heaven, and did cast them to the earth: and the dragon stood before the woman which was ready to be delivered, for to devour her child as soon as it was born.”

Clearly not the same as the serpent in Genesis. But because of the language in verse 9 “ And the great dragon was cast out, that old serpent, called the Devil, and Satan, which deceiveth the whole world: he was cast out into the earth, and his angels were cast out with him.”

Note that that does not actually make any connection between Satan and the Genesis serpent.
 
pinqy said:
This is a pet peeve of mine: nowhere in the Bible does it say that Satan tempted Eve. Genesis just says “the serpent.” And Gen 3:14“And the Lord God said unto the serpent, Because thou hast done this, thou art cursed above all cattle, and above every beast of the field; upon thy belly shalt thou go, and dust shalt thou eat all the days of thy life:” clearly is referring to an animal and does not seem at all similar to Satan as depicted in Job, or tempting Jesus.

In 2 Cor 11:3 Paul mentions the serpent, but makes no connection to Satan. “But I fear, lest by any means, as the serpent beguiled Eve through his subtilty, so your minds should be corrupted from the simplicity that is in Christ.”

In Revelation 12:3-4 we have “
And there appeared another wonder in heaven; and behold a great red dragon, having seven heads and ten horns, and seven crowns upon his heads.

4 And his tail drew the third part of the stars of heaven, and did cast them to the earth: and the dragon stood before the woman which was ready to be delivered, for to devour her child as soon as it was born.”

Clearly not the same as the serpent in Genesis. But because of the language in verse 9 “ And the great dragon was cast out, that old serpent, called the Devil, and Satan, which deceiveth the whole world: he was cast out into the earth, and his angels were cast out with him.”

Note that that does not actually make any connection between Satan and the Genesis serpent.
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Jesus did...

"You are from your father the Devil, and you wish to do the desires of your father. That one was a murderer when he began, and he did not stand fast in the truth, because truth is not in him. When he speaks the lie, he speaks according to his own disposition, because he is a liar and the father of the lie." John 8:44

So did John...

“And he seized the dragon, the original serpent, who is the Devil and Satan, and bound him for a thousand years.” Revelation 20:2
 
That is easy. We all know what is good or evil.
 
Airyaman said:
Who decides good and evil?

Humans. Society. That may be 3 people, 10, 50, or millions, depends on where you live and your level of exposure.
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So, what is wrong with Communism? What is wrong with Atheism? What is wrong with Socialism?
 
craig said:
In each of us. We know what is good. WE are evil when we do not do it.
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I disagree...everyone has their own ideas of what is good and bad...case in point...living together versus marriage...heterosexual relationships versus homosexual relationships...democracy versus dictatorship...the list goes on...
 
Elora said:
I disagree...everyone has their own ideas of what is good and bad...case in point...living together versus marriage...heterosexual relationships versus homosexual relationships...democracy versus dictatorship...the list goes on...
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You are are looking at abstractions. Consider each actual situation. The individual people. Then is is easy to know what is good or evil.
 
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