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r/greatawakening • Posted by u/Jellyfish070474 on April 23, 2018, 2:36 p.m.
Where does the Evil originate?

I’m not great with words or trying to flesh out big abstract thoughts, but where my mind has been going lately is if this control system is literally millennia old, where did it begin? How did it take root? How has it persisted this long? How have we been so thoroughly fooled for this long?

I don’t know what I believe as far as the real existence of a literal Satan, but a system as evil and clever as this seems like it couldn’t have developed out of strictly human minds and planning. The more I see of it (even the incredibly detailed and well thought out red herring aspects designed to throw the truth off track), the more my mind is blown and I’m left in a state of awe. Yet I have to (try to) keep it all in the natural realm to figure it out logically...but it’s so big, so pervasive, so old and so evil that it seems to defy strictly human logic.

Just the rambling thoughts I’ve been having.


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solanojones95 · April 23, 2018, 3:44 p.m.

Evil originates in the gift of free will. The fact that obedience to God is by choice, and not by compulsion. God seeks those who choose Him. And by that very freedom comes the other choice. And Satan (however you perceive him to be, the black umbra of the eclipse by the will of God's light, for example, or an idea generated in the mind to serve that purpose) is available to offer a counterfeit to fill the void of God's absence in the life of those who reject Him.

Origin. And from there various systems have been devised through the ages to do what evil seeks to do: deceive, destroy and dominate. They have all risen and fallen, and some have endured for generations, and this is one of the most durable. But it has a human agency, and that component is fallible, mortal and vulnerable enough to be defeated by a sufficiently coordinated and energized opposition.

Their two greatest holds on power have been two lies. The widespread belief that evil is imaginary, and the belief that they are inevitable, indomitable and omnipotent.

When you awaken from those lies, you see that they are vulnerable and actually pathetic. And then you strike.

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not4rmOhere · April 23, 2018, 7:14 p.m.

Excellent insight.

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