Article March 18, 1916 Issue

Jesus proved his mission on earth by destroying evil, and...

Carl E. Herring

Norfolk (Neb.) News

Jesus proved his mission on earth by destroying evil, and in Matthew he says, "I am not come to destroy, but to fulfil." Clearly, evil is not of God, for if so, it would contradict both the words of Jesus, that he came not to destroy, as well as his works in the destroying of sin, sickness, and death. If evil is not of God and is real, we must look for some power outside of God, and yet we read in John, "All things were made by him; and without him was not any thing made that was made." Surely, then, we have no Scriptural authority for the creation of anything good or bad that was not created by God; moreover, in Genesis it is said, "God saw every thing that he had made, and, behold, it was very good."

In order, therefore, to accept sin and evil as real, we must contradict the Scripture declaration that God's creation is good; deny the gospel statement that God made all things; conclude either that Jesus did destroy in the face of his avowal that he came not to destroy, or (possibly as a last resort) that God created evil and Jesus destroyed it, and in doing so was fulfilling his mission, and that taken altogether evil was good. We cannot conceive of any such tortuous process of reasoning being required of us, and yet it is necessary the moment we regard evil as a reality of God's universe.

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