Doing evil that good may result

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Many Christians base their moral decisions on outcomes. If the consequences are good, they say it is OK to do anything that is necessary. However, we believers CANNOT do evil that good may result.

 


 

Making decisions based on outcomes is called “consequentialism.” Many Christians use that rationale to justify doing things that are morally wrong. Or abhorrent.

By Divine command, we believers are disbarred from doing evil of any kind. The ends do NOT justify the means.

 


 

2 Kings 10:19. Now therefore call to me all the prophets of Baal, all of his worshipers, and all of his priests. Let no one be absent, for I have a great sacrifice to Baal. Whoever is absent, he shall not live.” But Jehu did deceptively, intending to destroy the worshipers of Baal.

2 Kings 10:25. As soon as he had finished offering the burnt offering, Jehu said to the guard and to the captains, “Go in and kill them! Let no one escape.” So they struck them with the edge of the sword. The guard and the captains threw the bodies out, and went to the inner shrine of the house of Baal.

Habakkuk 1:4. Therefore the law is paralyzed, and justice never prevails; for the wicked surround the righteous; therefore justice comes out perverted.

1 Maccabees 1:63. And they chose to die, that they might not be defiled with the meats, and that they might not profane the holy covenant: and they died.

1 Maccabees 2:41. And they took counsel on that day, saying, whoever shall come against us to battle on the Sabbath day, let’s fight against him, and we shall in no wise all die, as our kindred died in the secret places.

Wisdom 15:12. But he accounted our life to be a game, and our lifetime a festival for profit; for, he says, one must get gain however one can, even if it is by evil.

Romans 3:8. And why not say (as we are slanderously reported and as some claim that we say), “Let us do evil that good may come“? Their condemnation is just. (NASB translation)

Romans 6:1. What shall we say then? Shall we continue in sin, that grace may abound?

 


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