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Originally Posted by tiberry
I think the real point of, and further the whole reason for constructing an evil being in the first place is that you cannot know or conceive of an "ultimate good" without an "ultimate evil" to contrast it by. Without evil, you cannot know good. Without black, there would be no white. Taken a step further: If God was or is "all (or everything) there is"; as most religious texts describe him or in which he describes himself this way - how could he even realize that he existed? To know myself, I must also know that which is NOT me. IMO - Humans have imposed the personification of "God" and Devil" onto the two major themes of "good" and "evil" so that they can further rationalize each beyond just the conceptual.
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What is stopping the human race from being the contradictive "evil" in the world, and instead of blaming humans for evil, we blame an object/diety, which we see as "The Adversary" Satan.