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Originally Posted by Puritan Sailor Death is God's just punishment for sin. How can that be evil? Death certianly is tragic and foreign to the created order, but it is still just. But I'm open to more discussion on these points.  | {Just speaking about human death. Image bearer death. Not trying to get into animal death, etc.}
An evil can be used for justice.
And, an evil thing doesn't have to be an *immoral* thing. There's a difference.
For example, if a man has a sucking chest wound, and the only way to restore his breathing is to puncture his lung and insert a bic pen into it, that's a necessary evil, but it's not immoral. | True. But death is clearly set out as a just punishment by God himself. He executes his justice in perfect conformity to his holy nature. Death is that punishment.
What do you mean that something can be evil and not immoral? In the case above, the action to save the man's life wasn't evil but good, though painful for him. Are you using a broader more popular definition of evil?
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