In my article titled "What is this Evil then?" I likened the force of evil to different things in different disciplines. For example in mathematics I likened it to the minus sign and Power of Good to the plus sign, while in science the evil was represented by the negative sign while the Power of Good was represented by the positive sign.
But this raised some concerns on whether this implied that evil was relative.
If we look at evil from the perspective of man's fall from the Garden of Eden, then we get worried at the implications of relativity in it.
Equally, if we compare this force with the mathematical as well as scientific signs above, the implications only gets worse.
However, the relativity of evil is in so much as man is fallen. For all have sinned and fallen short of the glory of God.
This is so in that according to Paul in Romans 7: 14- 24, man is sold as a slave to sin. He therefore find himself doing the things that he does not want to do and not being able to do things he wants to do and is made prisoner of the law of sin at work in his body whose acts are found in Galatians 5: 19- 21.
But as in mathematics and science, both becomes irrelevant when we reach infinity. At this point, all ceases, including evil and its relativity.
God is Infinite. He is Omnipresent, omnipotent as well as Omniscient. It therefore follows that it is only at the realm of God that sin does not exist.
This may be seen as the reason Jesus came to show us the way and is directing us to seek first the kingdom of God first and all other things will be added to us.
It is also for the same reason that Paul is asking us to focus our mind on higher things (Colossians 3: 2) as these higher things are the constituents of the kingdom of God.
It is therefore true that as long as we are bound by the law of sin, evil is within us. But when we have focused our mind on higher things and attained to righteousness, then evil is totally eliminated in our lives.
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