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Testing Jesus in the Wilderness - Gospel of Matthew Part 3

Exploring My Strange Bible

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The Origins of Evil

The purpose of the Bible is not to give us all answers, he says. It does tell us what God is doing about evil in his actions through history that lead up to Jesus and his showdown with evil. And so whatever we say about evil doesn't say where it comes from, it's a creature. That's the portrait you can put together of this being. If you even want to call it a personal being or whatever, I call it an it because I kind of think he gives it too much dignity. He adds: "I don't think the biblical story gives us any origin story of evil"

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