do I conceptualize living my daily life as prevailing over the forces of darkness? well, lemme hem and haw a lil bit, but basically yes
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there's a good book about this called The Good Book
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[flips chair around to sit backwards. flips baseball cap. flips it back. gotta keep em on their toes!]
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frankly, the bible is pretty opaque about evil doers
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the serpent doesn't really seem so bad lucifer failed but angels never even had free will? fallen angels/demons are irredeemable, and so not ultimately blameworthy actions are evil, not humans, hence evil-doers
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> actions are evil, not humans So very very wrong A bull trampling a child is blameless, bc no free will, and the action has no moral component A human doing it tho...
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The ability to do evil depends on the knowledge of the distinction between good and evil
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So when the woman saw ...that the tree was to be desired to make one wise, she took of its fruit and ate; and she also gave some to her husband, who was with her, and he ate. Then the eyes of both were opened, and they knew
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to desire to be wise one needs to know what it means to be more wise and why that's preferable easy to say in retrospect 'they wanted to be wise like i want to be wise' but if the distinction didn't already live in their mind the choice would be nonsensical. We see what we know
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