Originally posted by Incarnated
What is evil? Evil is only that which is unwanted by God. There is no great battle between good and evil, for it is already decieded.
Right, I agree. Evil is a creation of God, he didn't necessarily directly will it into existence, but he gave some creations too much free will and
some chose this path of evil. God knew this would happen and planned it, so that there would be a temptation against men in the world until the last
days. This brings the trials of life that we grow spiritually through.
Evil is a tool. I call into evidence the book of Jobe I believe? The guy that that was a good Jew, prayed all the time, but Satan asked God for
permission to test him, though not do direct physical harm, and God agreed. This is perfect example of the Devil being used as a sharpening tool. So
Jobe lost everything he ever had, material wise, and still didn't crack, and now is in Paradise. But my point is .. God interacts with Satan,
commands Satan into action, tells Satan what his parameters and limits are.
Satan's followers are all the genuinely evil, rotten, rude, sadistic people in the world with an unmistakable, undeniable, thirst for death,
violence, torture, and so forth. Killers and such that do not repent. They just want to do bad things, and God loves them so much he allows them to
exist after death doing what they enjoyed so much on Earth, being evil. Note the "foggy human like beings" that were luring Howard further into the
Fog and then attacked him. These are lost souls of the unredeemed, and this is what they like to, the same thing they were doing in life
except now
unmasked, which is to cause spiritual/emotional pain, injury, torment, and destruction. But in the physical world they had to hurt the people
physically to gain this.. after the passing of the flesh their purpose is all too clearly revealed.
But do not think satisfaction and a "pleasure" is beyond the damned. Clearly in this depiction they very much enjoyed attacking and picking on the
guy, Howard. He noted they seemed to be thriving off of it. Obviously this is it right here, they have to inflict pain to cause themselves
satisfaction or pleasure, much like in when they were alive but may not have known it was the true reason why they hurt everyone. And these will
languish in Hell until the new guy shows up, then do what they can to hurt him the most to gain the most satisfaction from it. Once that is over, they
probably start back into a frenzied perpetual slaughter fest between them all, a blur of people ripping each other to pieces, constantly.
Who wins, who loses? It matters not .. once the person thinks they've been ripped apart, like Howard did, once completely ripped apart they'd
experience regaining all their "fake flesh" back, just to have it ripped / burnt off again by other guests. It actually sounds like a pretty
accurate Biblical depiction, and I am for the first time seeing it realistically. I have impressed myself.
[edit on 11/29/2007 by runetang]
[edit on 11/29/2007 by runetang]