Thursday 28 January 2021

What is the meaning of these two quotes?

“Who are you then?"
"I am part of that power which eternally wills evil and eternally works good.”
― Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Faust, First Part

[Samson killed the lion]... he turned off the path to look at the carcass of the lion. And he found that a swarm of bees had made some honey in the carcass. He scooped some of the honey into his hands and ate it along the way. He also gave some to his father and mother, and they ate it. But he didn’t tell them he had taken the honey from the carcass of the lion.

So he said: “Out of the one who eats came something to eat; out of the strong came something sweet.” Three days later they were still trying to figure it out.”
‭‭Judges‬ ‭14:8-9, 14‬ ‭NLT‬‬

I hope that the reader will have thought about the meaning of the two quotations. We normally just give them a quick glance, we take what they are saying at face value, but is there something more to them? A deeper meaning that eludes a quick inspection? I think that there may be (I'm not saying I'm right, but please, let me explain)...

In my own humble opinion, I think that what the quotes are saying is that evil produces good. That is purely a concept. It cannot be proved. Can the existence of God be proved? - only up to the point of the listener granting credibility to the proofs laid before them. At the point were they say NO the attempt ends. The same with 'evil produces good.' Only if the listener has perhaps had an experience that can steer them towards the acceptance of the argument, can the concept be acceptable to them.

We are rooted in our belief that evil IS evil. Of course it is, but what happens then? Do we remain trapped within the snares that the evil has laid for us? No, we suffer the evil and then a remarkable thing occurs, it is called 'Time.' Time enters into the equation, it has the capacity to wear down mountains. The evil is transformed by time. It mutates. 

What gives rise to this process is the energy contained within the evil. That energy has a latency within it that after it has been unleashed and has caused damage, destruction, disaster it has nowhere else to go, nothing else to do. It can only linger at the site, supreme in its victory, then, as time sets in, the victory is seen as hollow and empty. It is nothing, it is void.

Just as air rushes in to a vacuum, the space created by the evil must be filled. The tide has turned, good floods in. The last vestiges of evil are swamped, salt water washes the wounds. Cleansing them of even the tiniest taint of the putrid mass that was composed of evil. 

Yes, truly, Good comes out of Evil.

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