Biblical Evil Versus The Modern Day
What Does Biblical Evil Have To Do With Modernity?
A lot of the times when people who are new-to-the-faith read the Bible, they read the stories about Biblical evil and just can’t believe it. They don’t see the same evil in the modern day as they read about it in places like the Old Testament.
It is similar to when modern non-denomy-type Christians talk about persecution. They think someone calling them a bad name is “persecution”; Meanwhile, Christians in many parts of the world are literally still being martyred, rotting away in prisons, and so on. This is a perception error. Their perception is clouded by their lack of experience/knowledge on what others endure.
In the same way, regarding Biblical evil versus modern evil, it is also clearly just a perception error. Biblical evil is not much different from modern day evil. Under modernity, the same evil is just masked differently.
For example, instead of sacrificing their children to Moloch for better weather conditions, modern women sacrifice their children…