Accepting Evil Comments

I must agree - theodicy certainly should have a stronger foothold on us than it seems to have Gershon. But your poem tackles that explicitly - and perfectly - if God nor evil is to blame - then it leaves only we. For what else is there? If God exists - and He is not in fact dead - and if evil also exists - and if we are not God - and if we are not evil - then obviously God created evil for some purpose. So truly we can not blame evil for doing what evil does. But what exactly does evil do? Does it come in the form of a hurricane? I don't believe so. That is God - Since evil does exist, though, then it is only plausible to me that we are being tested by evil. And like the end of any other quiz or test we've taken in school - at the end of the day the bell rings. All the people that died on that tragic day - or any other - simply ended their quiz. Evil didn't end their lives. God did. He's not on holiday I think. He put us here for some reason too. To me it's not mysterious. At some point we failed to love - and we are here to learn how. And we will be reaped again - as so sewn. But to believe that - to believe we are being tested - that when the bell rings there is somewhere else to go - one must believe there is something other than this physical world - or at least after it. I do. I also believe Michael the Arch Angel was riding the waves of that hurricane. Because I believe he is the one - that harbinger of God - who sent us here in the first place. The battle is ever present and all around us. It is not a battle of life versus death. Those two are the constants - the knowns in a world cloaked by invisibility and confusion. We are already here - living in flesh. God and Michael only wish to bring us back. Our words and battle cries must not stray from that. For confusion is what evil does. Claiming that God is dead or inattentive might be only helping evil. Or becoming unwary minions to it.

Interesting title indeed..accepting evil..a fact of life but unacceptable to the man who has God in his heart, the evil doers have just been consumed by the devil. Enjoyed the read Had a look at amazon.com but I am hopeless at moving round a computer page...regards

I think C.G.Jung made a point writing 'Answer to Job'. God need men as much as men needs God for the process of creation to continue, and eventually overcome the evil traits of becomeing conscious. /GG

Insightful nice composition. 10 from me.

Thanks for your passionate insight. Please read 'Good And Evil.'