In Reply to: Re: God is dependent on evil posted by Acheick on September 09, 2005 at 11:19:52:
I believe there is good and bad in the world, but I feel that if you take things into the religious arena, the need for god is created by the evil, and if god created the world, then he created evil to create a need for himself. I'm kind of getting lost in the circle of this, but IF there was no bad, there would be no good either, they are both dependent on each other, otherwise, would we even have a term or recognition of 'good' if there was nothing to compare it to, 'good' would just be the norm, the accepted way of behaviour.
If remove things from the religious arena, then it seems to me there is no need for god, or the devil, there is good and bad, and they balance each other and create a need for the other, the yin and the yang, without the bad we would not appreciate when the good comes along, and life might be a little too complacent and boring.