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Is it possible to completely expunge all evil from the world? It is not only possible, it will be done! The Bible reveals how God will eventually banish evil from existence!
by Noel Hornor
e humans have thought up many an explanation to try to explain the phenomenon of evil. For many people, the idea that a devil incites human beings to deeds of lust and cruelty is absurd, nothing more than a fairy tale. A common view is that people commit atrocities because they themselves were victims of abuse.
Most psychologists discount the possibility of the existence of a devil, but a few years ago one psychological counselor squarely faced the problem of evil. He did so because he was retained by the judicial system to interview men who were accused of the most depraved acts. He entered the inner sanctum of jails and prisons to interview prisoners who had committed atrocities against their fellow human beings.
A state supreme court had ruled that accused killers must have access to professional counseling before the state could put them on trial. Prosecutors could make public only evidence that was deemed favorable to the defendants. The jury and the trial judge couldn't even listen to evidence that reflected unfavorably upon the accused.
Under the cloak of confidentiality, the counselor often heard vile tales vividly described by these depraved killers. Many of the stories contained evidence that would remain forever hidden to all but the psychologist, including confessions to hideous crimes as well as accounts of the pathetic pleas of victims in the moments before their deaths.
Stifling his inner revulsion, the counselor listened intently to graphic details of bloody torture and the beastly, systematic thoughts of the tormentor as he satiated his twisted, brutal appetites at the expense of someone's wife or child.
After emerging from behind the confining walls, this psychologist found himself pondering a question that the sum of his professional training had taught him to reject: Does evil exist?
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