Assertion: evil | /r/HasProperty | the absence of good
Facets:
value: merely
type: DEGREE
value: really
type: DEGREE
Source sentences:
text: Evil is the Absence of Good
text: ” (Ezekiel 18:20).Essentially, evil is a lack of goodness.
text: Rather, only good exists, and evil is merely the privation of, or lack of good.
text: According to the Ahmadiyya understanding of Islam, evil does not have a positive existence in itself and is merely the lack of good, just as darkness is the result of lack of light.
text: But evil is the absence of good- it is in itself a limitation of good.
text: ’s creation is good, evil is a lack of being and goodness.
text: Evil is just a word, evilness has no physicality, evil is the absence of good, like coldness is the absence of heat.
text: In his Gospel, the Apostle John addressed the issue of whether evil is merely the absence of good.
text: Evil has no existence of its own; it is really the absence of good.
text: Evil is the absence of good.
text: As Christian philosopher J. P. Moreland has noted, “Evil is a lack of goodness.