God Deeds, GD1 Why Evil
Channel: Brain Outy
Date: 2012-10-06

Comment here: http://www.vimeo.com/brainout/gd1 .  This begins the SatStrat (versus) God deeds subseries, which is also in vimeo, http://www.vimeo.com/channels/satstrat1to5 .

Audio in this series, and webpages below explain the answer to WHY EVIL in enough detail and simplicity that you can see the stark answer, and see it in Bible.

At that point, you'll have a decision to make:  become an atheist, or fall in love with God.  There is no middle ground.  If you aren't already in one of those camps, it's only because you don't grasp the real issues involved, in CREATING.  Which is normal:  we aren't God, so we can't know His Perspective.  But Bible tells us His Perspective.

The Calvinists and Catholics and all other denominations have His Perspective completely wrong.  They focus on human sin and behavior, never understanding God at all.  So when asked 'why evil', they harp on human shortfalls, then generally throw up their hands and call God 'mysterious', or 'inscrutable', or some other lame excuse for not answering the question.

But God answers the question, and boldly:  Genesis 1:1-2, Isaiah 45:7-19, Isaiah 53:10-11 and 54:1, Matthew 4:3-4, Ephesians 1:15-23, 3:15-19, 4:5-16, Hebrews 1-2 (both chapters), Hebrews 10:10-14, and all of Chapter 11.  These verses are never considered in sufficient detail.  But they are mostly well-enough translated so you yourself can ponder them.

Whether you do that, is up to you.  But if you really do that, you will simultaneously be shocked, upset, and at the same time.. awestruck.  At which point, you will have the strongest reasons to be an atheist.. or to fall in love with God.

No middle ground.

Links:

Audio (summarizing webpage import, total 1.33 hours):
*  http://www.brainout.net/downloads/wma/GodDeeds1-6/WhyEvil1.MP3 , 31MB -- summarizes the problem of Truth, Freedom, and Evil.  Good reasons to want to be an atheist.

* http://www.brainout.net/downloads/wma/GodDeeds1-6/WhyEvil2.MP3 , 33MB-- summarizes how GOD lives with it, what GOD does to 'baptise' the evil to make it worth HIS TIME to live with it.

* http://www.brainout.net/downloads/wma/GodDeeds1-6/WhyEvil3.MP3 , 54MB -- summarizes the prior two audio pieces and then focuses on what the spiritual life really is -- learning to think like Christ, not learning to be moral or good.  Learning to be satisfied the way HE is satisfied, despite knowing pain and suffering, whether yours or someone else's (with the latter, being far harder to accept).

The reward comes from learning to think like Him, which only God can do, 1Cor3, Heb11:6, and the foregoing Ephesians verses.  Because Matt4:4 is the spiritual life, NOT what you do;  instead, what you BECOME, Eph 4:13.  So the world is blessed due to LEARNING CHRIST, not good deeds, Lev 26, Deut 28:  for the FIRST commandment is to LOVE GOD.  You aren't obeying that, if you're not LEARNING God.  So then whatever else you do, is evil masquerading as good, just like the Pharisees, John 6-8.

So the whole 'good deeds' thingy, is a satanic scam straight from Genesis 3, preyed upon and by,any Christian near you.  Want to see how?  Just think over the points in this one-hour (77MB) audio, http://www.brainout.net/downloads/wma/GodDeeds1-6/WhyGoodDeedsareEvil4.MP3 .  Not difficult to grasp, but definitely a topic we seldom think through.

So JUST STUDY, learn and live on Bible.  Let GOD dictate when and if you do anything at all.  He'll make it clear.

Webpages:

For God's definition of perfection is not like ours:  the BAD is just as much a part of His Definition of 'perfect', as the good.  What????  Yeah, that should make you want to be an atheist.

That's why Satan rebelled.  The topic of Satan's rebellion and the foregoing issue of Truth being Free and therefore free to be evil, took me 10 years to research and write up, in the Thinking series (five parts), beginning at http://www.brainout.net/LordvSatan1.htm .  That first part is the overview.  Part II goes back to creation, up until Church is born.  Part III and IV cover Church, and will take MONTHS to read, ponder, vet.  Part V covers eternity and the Lake of Fire.  The Appendix focuses on Satan's mindset and gambits, so you can see the validity of his arguments.  A putative 'novel' version of this same story was begun in 2006 (still unfinished), http://www.brainout.net/PDR.pdf .  If you want to click on the intra-doc links, instead download http://www.brainout.net/PDR.doc .(Adobe can't convert the links, I've no idea why this document won't convert.)

Yes, validity.  The issue is not good versus bad.  It's the difference between Infinite Free Perfection and finite shaved truth.  Satan wants the latter, and so do we, whether atheists or Christians.  So the choice is stark, and is not adequately presented in pulpits.  But you can reason it all out yourself.

And then you too will decide to either become an atheist, or fall in love with God.