WARNING: Candid criminal acts are discussed in this post and may not be appropriate for all readers.
(See companion post ‘Good and Evil: God’s Spiritual Economy)
As mass murders happen around us, I question whether our society, especially the Christian part of society, has a realistic view of evil and whether we believe in the depths of evil so vividly documented in
the Christian’s Bible. Seemingly, the more gruesome the crimes….the more we hear the term criminally insane. What is the difference between true insanity and evil???? How can destructive acts against human beings, especially against children,continue to be labeled insane and not evil?
Premeditated murder perpetrated by the likes of Arizona shooter Jared Loughner (20 total victims), University of Alabama at Huntsville shooter Any Bishop (7 total victims), Tuscaloosa Copper Top shooter (18 victims), Colorado shooter, James Holmes (70 total victims), the Boston Bomber, and the list of killers and victims continually increases. . Each perpetrator calmly and secretly preplanned their murder rampages and carried them out with perfection. And in most court cases – insanity is mentioned as a defense.
How does a person become so deviated from societal norm that his/her behavior screams “I am a destroyer.’ And why do we first suspect it as insanity and not evil? Why do we question whether the killer is responsible for his own actions? How can one decern whether a killer has lost the mental capacity of knowing right from wrong….or whether he is fulfilling an appetite for destruction? If true ‘insanity’ is the culprit…why is it so often
sadistically murderous. I know that only God can know a heart and that only He draws a guilty heart to contrition. But I know, too, that man’s history records those violent preditors who, in full control of their decision-making processes, choose to destroy the happiness and lives of others. The very secrecy of their premeditated deliberations prove they know right from wrong, lawful from unlawful, and so forth.
I am aware of the array of mental disorders such as schizophrenia which sometimes manifest delusional thought. Some disorders are genetic. Some are the result of brain injuries. Some are the result of disease and all are common to man. Understand that I am not discussing mental retardation(intellectual deficiency) nor genetic/organically based mental illness. I am specifically focusing on the want to destroy innocents. Does a line exist which clearly places illness on one side and evil on the other side of the line? Why do we consistently label destructive behaviors as criminally insane and not evil? Does true insanity always destroy or is it sometimes kind?
Some in our American society does not accept the existence and reality of pure evil embodied as Lucifer. The loving and trusting nature of many good people find it hard to comprehend a vileness so putrid that it would even rape the angels of heaven. I say clearly and emphatically, There is a spirit being that is fully opposite the pure and wholesome character of God!!!!!!! I emphatically insist that good and evil exist on opposite ends of the continuum. As a Christian who is familiar with Bible history, I believe there exists one God whose power is above all power created by Him. I believe He is total Good whose Love is above all love created by Him . And, too, there exists a spirit being as opposite to Love and Purity as dark is to light and as cold is to hot. This evil is revealed in Lucifer who once dwelt with God .
Lucifer hated God and desired to destroy God. He did not want to be God. He wanted the power and authority of God so he could thrust forth his damnation and murderous destruction on all God’s creation! But if we believe in the fulness of
GOD, how can we not believe in the fulness of Lucifer??? If we believe the Word is from God, how can we place so little emphasis on the endless pronouncements and warnings God puts forth about the abominable and evil father of darkness? If we believe love, life, and healing are influences from Creator God, how can we not believe that hate, death, and destruction are influences from Destroyer Lucifer????
John 8:44 says, “You are of your father the devil, and the lusts of your father ye will do. HE WAS A MURDERER FROM THE BEGINNING and abode not in the truth, because there is no truth in him. ….’
Bible history documents the reality of evil from the Beginning. God purposed Lucifer to approach Eve. Only through personal experience, (knowing) both Good and Evil, could man be equipped to choose whom he would serve (free will). God’s plan was to ‘make man in our own image.’ After permitting Adam and Eve’s separation from God/Good through spiritual death which resulted from affiliation with Lucifer/Evil, God said ‘Behold, the man is
become as one of us, to know good and evil:…’ (Genesis 3:22). Because of Free Will every man chooses whom he will serve. Cain chose to serve Lucifer and to challenge God’s authority. Adn God rejected Cain’s fraudulent attempt at worship. Abel was faithful and accepted by God. In contempt, in hatred, and in the miry clay of earthy and evil indignation, Cain murdered what belonged to God. Lucifer was a murderer ‘from the beginning’ and Cain followed his evil influence. And here we are thousands of years later experiencing the same contempt/hatred/evil indignation…and asking whether it is insanity????
I recently saw a Cold Case File about the 1980s BTK (Bind, Torture, Kill) killer of Wichita, Kansas. Cain’s evil did not compare to the evil of Dennis Radar…. Congregation President of Christ Lutheran Church in Wichita. His satanic murderous spree covered more than a decade and resulted in eleven murders including one whole family. Radar’s EVIL acts were so vile that they were indicative of a person with no soul….a man damned….fully a destroyer. After Radar’s conviction he said, ‘God is the light of the world. Now that I have confessed…may I be accepted by Him.” Say what???? Mockery all the way to the end!! Radar talked about the gruesome details of his evil acts as lightly as one would describe toppings on a pizza. He wallowed in the rottenness of death…literally..by revisiting the decaying bodies of his
victims…even enjoying the smell of putrid rotten flesh….the fruit of his destruction. Dead. Completely dead inside. Throughout his murderous rampage he stayed in touch with news media byreporting the murders as though he were reporting sports events!!! He was reporting sports events. Murder, destruction, death, violation and decay was his sport. Evil! Pure Evil!! And how like Lucifer to ‘transform himself into an angel of light.’ Radar disguised himself as a church leader…(2 Cor 11:14 And no marvel; for Satan himself is transformed into an angel of light.)
A s Christians who claim to believe in the Word….why do we discount scriptures which clearly explain Satan? Revelations 2: 9 records, ‘…….I know the blasphemy of them which say they are Jews, and are not, but are the synagogue of Satan.’ Revelations 2:13 records God’s message to the church at Pergamos, ‘I know thy works, and where thou dwellest, even where Satan’s seat is: and thou holdest fast my name, even hast not denied my name, and has not denied my faith, even in those days wherein Antipas was my faithful martyr, who was slain among you, WHERE SATAN DWELLETH.’ Revelations 2:19-24 records the Satanic infiltration of the church at Thyatira by Jezebel, daughter of Satan, and her successful influence towards ‘evil’….all in the name of Christianity. Hello???? Evil??? Here??? Now??? In church????? Why not???? Have we become too warm and fuzzy in our Christian ‘churchianity’ that we no longer believe in Satan??? God forbid!!!!!!!!!!
In a society where destruction is continuously being maliciously perpetrated against the innocent, is it not time we admit that evil exists and that the only power against it is God??? Ephesians 6:12 says, ‘we wrestle not against flesh and blood but against spiritual wickedness in high places.’ The verse speaks of the sadistic appetite of Lucifer who desires to destroy.
(Rev. 12:4). Genesis chapter 19 records that God sent two angels to deliver Lot and family from Sodom and Gomorrah before God rained fire and brimstone on its wicked inhabitants. After learning of the arrival of the two angels, the city’s roving band of homosexual men headed for Lot’s house to ‘know’ them. Lot even offered men his two virgins daughters and begged … ‘do not do this wicked’. The homosexual men said, ‘we want them’ and moved forward to break down the door to rape the two angels. The angels blinded the men…to prevent the act.
Rape is truly not about sex. Rape is about destruction!!! Was the group rape of angels about alternative lifestyle, about sex, about power, or about pure unadulterated satanic lust to destroy and death? God determined they were evil and no trace is found today of Sodom nor of Gomorrah. Don’t believe it??? Why not??? What’s the difference in raping and decapitating a small and innocent child and raping angels??? There is no difference is in the degree of destruction ‘it’ determines to perpetuate. Each Christian needs to be clear on what is good and what is evil. Society is a mixture of both believers and unbelievers and, therefore, cannot agree on its presence.
God warns of Satan’s concluding and open rule on the earth in the visible fleshly incarnated Son of Satan, Antichrist. When the time is right…God permits the fiasco to happen. Scriptures describe the unimaginable destruction which will come from the heart and mind of the unholy trinity…666…replica of Holy Trinity during the time of Jacob’s Trouble. Satan’s nature is only destructive! Always!! He has no other nature. Scriptures show his destructive onslaught will be against all flesh. So massive, widespread, and fierce will be Satan’s destructive desire that unless God intervenes with the Second Coming …‘there would be no flesh saved.‘
I realize this post is disturbingly candid. But evil is disturbingly candid and destroying bodies and souls in epidemic proportion. Ask the six killed by Arizona shooter Jared Loughner and the fourteen wounded who live with the memory of how Laughner violated their lives. Ask the six University of Alabama-Huntsville faculty members shot point blank by co-worker Amy Bishop. Ask Amy’s brother whom she murdered years earlier. Ask the fourteen shot recently in The Copper Top bar in downtown Tuscaloosa, Alabama, by a forty-four-year old man who just wanted to destroy lives. Ask the twelve innocents who went to see the new Batman movie and found a real monster. Ask the 50+ who experienced the horror and will find it hard to again trust. It is past time for Christians and for all society to learn the difference between insanity (legitimate diseases of the mind and emotions) and evil.
evil is not excusable. it should be punished for what it is.
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