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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.  |
The justice in the punishment is not evil but righteous and good-- it is a return of evil for evil. That's what the wages of sin are.
We know that "The sting of death is sin." (1 Cor. 15:56) and that Christ conquered death. (v.54-55). He didn't come to conquer something neutral or good.
Disobedience is sin. Adam's sin introduced death. Sin--> death. God hates sin and God hated death enough to sacrifice his son to conquer it. I can't see how it would be considered anything but inherently evil. | But death is the execution of His wrath, which is perfectly just and good. By conquering death, Christ was taking the just wrath of God upon himself. Thus, reversing the effects of sin which is evil, and so removing the cause of death from us and giving us eternal life.
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