How do you define evil?

@fmf said
"Evil" is egregious immorality (as already defined in numerous previous discussions, involving doing harm, deceiving and coercing) and gratuitous, sociopathic action that is gravely detrimental and/or damaging to others, and which stems from an abject lack or even absence of empathy and compassion.

That which results in pain, sorrow, or distress. In order to convey the correct thought in English, the very comprehensive Hebrew word raʽ is variously translated as “bad,” “gloomy,” “ugly,” “evil,” “calamitous,” “malignant,” “ungenerous,” and “envious,” depending upon the context. (Ge 2:9; 40:7; 41:3; Ex 33:4; De 6:22; 28:35; Pr 23:6; 28:22) The Greek word ka·kosʹ may be defined as that which is (1) morally evil and (2) destructive; among the ways it has been translated are: “bad,” “evil,” “hurtful,” “injurious,” “wrong.” (Ro 7:19; 12:17; Col 3:5; Tit 1:12; Heb 5:14) The Hebrew verb qa·lalʹ means “call down evil upon.”​ INSIGHT 1

@galveston75 said
That which results in pain, sorrow, or distress. In order to convey the correct thought in English, the very comprehensive Hebrew word raʽ is variously translated as “bad,” “gloomy,” “ugly,” “evil,” “calamitous,” “malignant,” “ungenerous,” and “envious,” depending upon the context. (Ge 2:9; 40:7; 41:3; Ex 33:4; De 6:22; 28:35; Pr 23:6; 28:22) The Greek word ka·kosʹ may be ...[text shortened]... 2:17; Col 3:5; Tit 1:12; Heb 5:14) The Hebrew verb qa·lalʹ means “call down evil upon.”​ INSIGHT 1

@kellyjay said
I cannot go along with this one since pain is required; without it, we would all bleed out or worse. Not everything that happens to us that is painful has an intent towards those ends, and I think the intent is required for evil to be authentic. Stubbing my toe isn't evil but painful.

@kellyjay said
Examples of evil would be lies, false balances, greed, reviling, vengeance, murder, rape, lust, stealing, anything that puts oneself above God and others in ways contrary to loving them.

@galveston75 said
That which results in pain, sorrow, or distress.

@fmf said
anything that puts oneself above God

The word "evil" refers to certain kinds of morally unsound behaviour. It is a human social construct, not a supernatural one, even if many humans do superimpose such notions onto the concept in their efforts to make sense of the human condition.

@kellyjay said
Faith speech.

@FMF

What of your own behavior would you be willing to admit was evil, even in humanistic terms?

@fmf said
KellyJay [on another thread]: "All have sinned and fallen short of God, God who is good. How do you define evil?"

@fmf said
If all evil and "sin" can be traced back to "Satan", and the Abrahamic God's intention was to have a perfect "sinless" world, according to the theology/folklore, why doesn't God just destroy "Satan" and end the suffering?

@fmf said
If all evil and "sin" can be traced back to "Satan", and the Abrahamic God's intention was to have a perfect "sinless" world, according to the theology/folklore, why doesn't God just destroy "Satan" and end the suffering?

@kevin-eleven said
@FMF

What of your own behavior would you be willing to admit was evil, even in humanistic terms?

@pb1022 said
How does that “end the suffering” when man’s sin nature is still in him?

@pb1022 said
Are you aware that Lucifer took a third of the angels with him when he was cast out of Heaven? Does God get to destroy them too?