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18 march 2024

King James version (en)

Beloved, follow not that which is evil, but that which is good. He that doeth good is of God: but he that doeth evil hath not seen God.

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Wesley's Notes

Follow not that which is evil - In Diotrephes.But that which is good - In Demetrius.He hath not seen God - Is a stranger to him.

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The idea that evil is only the absence of good, is quite widely spread today. And in a certain sense, it can be considered as profoundly true: because if God creates the world, according to the words of the Holy Scriptures "quite well", then the evil in it is possible only as distortion, mutilation and destruction of what was created by God. And this means in a certain sense that evil can be considered as a consequence of the reduction of the measure of goodness, which God put in His creation...

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Why such a difference in the Jewish and Greek chronologies ? How to explain that in the beginning God creates people and gives them the commandment of reproduction (what they did not do while in Paradise), and then in the chapter 2 He creates the woman? Does it mean then that the second chapter doubles the first?

 

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