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PotOnWheel
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| Posted 10/9/2003 12:22 PM (GMT -6) |   | A friend, an older friend, seeing my love for our students and my optomism driven observations and creativity, asked at the end of a conversation (in a lower tone) "What do you do about evil?"
This was not a college student's question. An academic question. It was not the question of youth, looking forward and seeking to categorize. It was the question posed by one who picks up pieces. Agonizes with those who suffer. Frets at the limitations of the craft, and the gap remaining between it and the unrelenting needs faced.
"What do you do about evil?," was what I was being asked.
I was being asked what I do about evil. I suppose, how I stand it. And what I do to respond.
I answered that evil is a parasite. It only exists as a corruption of something else. My friend noded. But all was--the Bible says--created good. There is the good creation, then the fall (us, and the angels before us), and redemption, and office... (because as Oscar Coleman says, there is a Now-and-Not-Yet thing goning on), and finally there will be full redemption.
I went on (while watching an amaglum that might have been inner sadness, spiritual hunger, resonent hopefulness, and not-dormant faith) to say that Christ took and held our humanity so closely that he deified it, healing it. THAT healing is our future hope and our present strength. And it is Christ's death on the Cross, saying "it is finished" because it actualy was! And descending to the place of the dead he preached to the captives. And rising he justified humanity. Ascending he took OUR humanity to the holy of holies. And the Spirit ministers LIFE from THAT human body of Christ to us as our healing. Christ is risen, trampling down death by death, and to those in the tombs bestowing life! (This was what my friend felt missing. This was what my friend needed and wanted to hear.)
You don't know what day evil will visit. You don't know when the craft of professionals will suffice or not suffice. Evil is not simple. It has so many participants and contributors. None the least is the individuals involved.
But this question is not about categories. Systems. Satisfying comprehension. It is about blood; and fragmentation versus wholeness. It is about sickness and health. It is about sin and it is about healing.
THAT is why I posted the following thread (below). It was what I had to offer a professional in that craft. Neat answers would not be appropriate. Peace of mind is less important than putting pieces together.
www.christusvictorministries.org/gbfront/forum/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=2680
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Matthew Timothy Short
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| Posted 10/10/2003 1:14 AM (GMT -6) | | | I love you, and the heart God is creating in you, PotOnWheel . . . | | Back to Top | | |
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