Comparison Of Evil And Moral Evil

Evil is both bad and harmful. In the Evangelical Dictionary of Theology, there is actually a distinction between bad evil and harmful evil. Bad evil is moral evil. Biblically, moral evil is disobedience towards God. Specifically, an instance of moral evil is when Adam and Eve disobeyed God in the Garden of Eden. A contemporary instance of moral evil is humanity defying God’s statutes by lying, murdering, or hating. The majority of humanity acknowledges immoral acts (e.g., rape and dishonesty) as evil, although they may not acknowledge disobedience towards God as the definition of moral evil (i.e., there are people who define moral evil as whatever that destroys society). On the other hand, harmful evil is natural evil. Examples of natural