Bible Study: Theory on the Origin of Evil

by The Righterzpen

So did you ever wonder where evil came from? How did God, making a world that was "good", end up with a world that had fallen? Well that is something I've pondered myself. In which I pondered for a long time. Finally I came up with a theory; or rather came to a certain conclusion about an existing theory of physics. Please R&R - I'm curious to know other's reactions to this?

1. Explaination of Creation

Explanation of Creation

(chapter updated 12/25/2021)

A while back; I'd done some "cleaning" of my computer and found some more chapters on my Theory of Origin of Evil study. A few months ago; post working on Theory on Angels, Ghosts and Extra-terrestrial Life, I'd posted some updates to this Bible Study too. Well, today I was working on just basic editing / spelling corrections and accidentally deleted this chapter.

I'd deleted it from "doc manager" post making the corrections and posting those corrections thinking that I wouldn't need it again. Well, after that, I went on to do corrections to the next chapter and accidentally posted that update to the wrong chapter's space.

Grrrr!

So! Word of experience here to other authors. Don't do that; because you won't be able to get back the edits to the chapter you accidentally "wrote over". Fortunately I had part of it on my computer still, but I'd lost all the subsequent edits I'd done.

Now, "extra layer of caution": Download your entire story onto you computer before you go on to make more edits.

(End rant):

So consequently, I will have to go back and re-rewrite this chapter. Thus I know that if one reads this chapter; the following ones may not make a whole lot of sense because the updates that had been in this chapter are now missing.

Anyways; this writing actually came into existence before the "theory" did and is one of the things that got me thinking about the "natural world" and where the "theory" actually came from.

So they are a bit "reordered" as to their original content; but again, for those who are finding this interesting. Here are some more "pieces". I will repost the missing edits again, once I correct them.

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Explanation of Creation / good and evil in this world

Genesis:

In His first task God set the format for the universe. He decided the structure of the matter the planets would be made up of and set the frame work of the "space" they would take up. (Sort of like formatting a hard drive for a computer - nothing is on the hard drive but the spaces are set up for what information will go where.)

We are discovering in science that all matter has a basic structure in which it's framed upon. In outer space there is "stuff" in the "space". We can't measure it, but it keeps the objects in the universe where they "are suppose to be". This is God's format. With in God's format came the basic elemental structures that would come to make up planets and suns. This could be the protons, neutrons and electrons that would eventually make up elements such as hydrogen, oxygen etc.

Before God put His creation in this "formatted spot", what was here was a perpetually destructive evil existence. The "personification" or the spirit of that evil is what the Scripture calls Satan. Where that evil came from is the basis of my theory. Is Satan a fallen angel? I know churches teach that and I've come to the conclusion that there is enough in Scripture to determine that. Now what Satan actually is as a "fallen angel"; I'm not sure I know.

We do know this. "Darkness" predated the material creation; and therefore the origin of evil can not be a fallen angel God had made; since nothing God would create was even in existence yet. Any ways; God was greater than that evil though, so He was able to put in that evil's existence a carbon based material creation that the perpetually destructive evil could not pollute. That is until Adam sinned.

In science fiction writing, we see the concept of "anti-matter". Whether or not there is an actual scientific theory behind it - I don't know. "Anti-matter" though is the perpetually destructive counter force to the matter of the material world.

In physics we have "the law of entropy" Entropy is things going from a state of order to a state of chaos. This decay is the work of this perpetually destructive evil existence that God superseded with His creative work. This evil got it's foot hold in God's creation when Adam transgressed. The destruction this evil brings upon the creation ultimately manifests as death.

In the Hebrew the words "heaven" and "earth" are definite articles. This means they are speaking of a certain heavens and a certain earth. Even though these words are not plural, we know God created more than one set of solar systems. The universe is filled with galaxies, composed of solar systems, which are composed of stars, planets, moons etc. The nature of the definitive article of the Hebrew here could be just referring to our planet and our solar system.

This universe that God created is immense! There is a reference in one of the epistles to "the worlds" (plural) God has created and the "world" (singular) He has redeemed. It is of my opinion that there is probability life on other planets. If the world God has redeemed is singular (meaning our world), reason would have it that what ever life may be elsewhere either is not prone to sin or does not hold the capacity to be redeemed.

We do know there are entities that God created that are aware of Him (angels, beasts) that are not created in His image, yet appear to have been affected by the fall. Apparently, the entire universe was affected by the fall, for it will all be destroyed and recreated an incorruptible universe. And the perpetually destructive evil existence (and its created spirit entity now fallen - Satan) that God put His creation into will be cast into the lake of fire.

The earth was without form and void. It existed as a desolate wasteland and was vacant. At this point what was here was basically the "skeleton" of the universe. The elements that would come to make up living structures didn't exist yet. This fact made the "big bang" impossible. There were no elements present to create life with.

And darkness was upon the face of the deep. This pervasive evil existence so permeated the "skeleton" of the universe that God had created that it tried to withhold the light of truth. This "light" was the fact that God was stronger than the evil. This evil was agitated and it continuously revolted against God's creative power. The "abyss" of what is mentioned here very well could be the "format" of what God would later designate as hell. The nature of the Hebrew word seems to imply hell.

And the Spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters. The Spirit of God was dispersed to this dead universe. The byproduct left by the entrance of the Spirit of God into this dead universe was water. Ironically, astronomy has witnessed where meteors and asteroids will impact upon dry planets and actually create lakes. It is believed that this is where planets get their water sources from. It's brought in the form of ice on meteors. This is also believed to be a factor in the flood of Noah. God's "opening up the fountains of the deep" is believed to have left this planet with much more water than it originally had.

Water is the first element in the creation of life. The presence of the Spirit of God profoundly shifted the balance of power in the creation. God "imposed" upon this evil existence His will; not only to create a framework for a universe, but to put life in that universe. Life being the total antithesis to this evil existence. It gives some context to the understanding of why evil is always in revolt. It by nature is destructive because that's all it's capable of doing. The manifestation of its destruction in this fallen world is sin. Sin is so pervasive because the existence this universe was created into, is by nature perpetually destructive. In the end, God will cut off and punish that destructive evil. It will never again haunt His creation. Amen!