TREDTWO FINALS

1. Evil may not necessarily be a sin, because different people have different perceptions of evil. What we may pertain as evil is not actually against the will of God. For example, we didn’t do anything to help in the relief operations for the victims of the recent typhoon. It may seem evil that we didn’t help them especially if we are not affected by the typhoon at all. We deprived them from the help they needed. Another example is smoking. Smokers deprive themselves from having good health. Smoking can be seen as something evil, but in reality we’re not doing anything against God’s commandments. Sin is always evil, because we do things that are against God’s commandments, which is the basis of being good. Corruption is a good example of this, because we’re stealing from our neighbors. Another example is disobeying your parents and answering back to them. These two situations can be seen as something evil. Corruption deprives the people from the benefits that they are entitled to for the taxes that they are paying. The second situation deprives our parents from the respect that they deserve. These situations are also sins, because they violate the Ten Commandments of God, which is the basis of what is really good.

2. The free will of human beings is not the root cause of sin. It is separation from God that causes sin. Free will is a characteristic. It is the ability to survive and adapt in a dynamic creation. Every human being has this feature, to the extent that we may understand “will” as the appetite of a faculty. Separation from God simply results in the uncertainty, and therefore the self-determinacy of each and every human being.

Physical and moral evil, although they usually occur on their own, can be overlapped under certain situations. When an overlap of moral and physical evil occurs, it is usually moral evil, which triggers it