Evil

In the "Lord's Prayer" there are four petitions made to God, one of them is: "deliver us from evil". Do we really know for what we are asking? I believe the Muslim hijackers that flew the planes on 9/11 were evil. Further, the person that was late for the flight, and because of being late, did not die in the crash was delivered from evil. If that person had prayed that day, "deliver us from evil", then that persons prayer was answered.

Those pilots were evil for what they did. Is there some way we can identify a person that is evil? Do we always have to wait until the evil act is done?

We are trained to find the good in everybody and that can cause us to be insensitive to those that are truly evil. After all, not everybody is good. A Christan believes that he is capable of doing evil, that he is flawed, and must be constantly on guard to keep from trespassing on others. For the most part the christian is able to do this, but it is a struggle, and through prayer is able to thwart evil actions.

Can God be evil? Sad to say there is an instance in the Bible where God is actually quoted as saying he plans on doing an evil on some people. You may remember the story of Sodom and Gomorrah. Was God justified?

Can Obama be evil? We know that he has designs on spreading the wealth of others. Some have even used the term "the evil rich" because the rich will not willingly give up their riches.

Can you be evil? Setting aside practical jokes, have you ever done an evil thing to somebody? If you did, did you enjoy doing it? Did you repent of such an action, or were you sorry you did it.

The Book of Job, in the Bible, is reported to be about evil. Yet it is God that brings him his sufferings. God is intentionally doing it so that he can show the Devil that Job is a good follower. Some scholars have maintained that The Book of Job is not a Hebrew book and does not belong in the Bible. Yet, there it is for our amazement and befuddlement.

Two men work side by side for ten minutes. One stops working while the other continues to work for a full eight hours. A buyer comes by and for $480.00 buys the whole lot that has been produced. How do you split the proceeds? If it is other than $10.00/$470.00, say $240.00/$240.00, or some other fraction other than the first, is there evil involved?