Comments on: Lesser of Two evils https://www.ourthoughts.ca/2006/05/23/lesser-of-two-evils/ Thought-provoking commentary on life, politics, religion and social issues. Mon, 29 May 2006 13:56:14 +0000 hourly 1 By: Tim J. https://www.ourthoughts.ca/2006/05/23/lesser-of-two-evils/comment-page-1/#comment-10051 Mon, 29 May 2006 13:56:14 +0000 http://www.ourthoughts.ca/2006/05/23/lesser-of-two-evils/#comment-10051 Or yours. What the…?

]]> By: ltbugaf https://www.ourthoughts.ca/2006/05/23/lesser-of-two-evils/comment-page-1/#comment-10050 Mon, 29 May 2006 13:14:29 +0000 http://www.ourthoughts.ca/2006/05/23/lesser-of-two-evils/#comment-10050 I guess it’s utterly impossible to interpret it any other way but yours.

]]> By: Tim J. https://www.ourthoughts.ca/2006/05/23/lesser-of-two-evils/comment-page-1/#comment-10048 Mon, 29 May 2006 13:11:42 +0000 http://www.ourthoughts.ca/2006/05/23/lesser-of-two-evils/#comment-10048 In Genesis 2:5 it says “there was not a man to till the ground.”

Remeber, we have two creations going on–one spiritual, one physical. The Book of Abraham is pretty clear on this.

]]> By: ltbugaf https://www.ourthoughts.ca/2006/05/23/lesser-of-two-evils/comment-page-1/#comment-10044 Mon, 29 May 2006 12:56:17 +0000 http://www.ourthoughts.ca/2006/05/23/lesser-of-two-evils/#comment-10044 If you think that, then you need to read the verses again, particularly 27.

]]> By: Tim J. https://www.ourthoughts.ca/2006/05/23/lesser-of-two-evils/comment-page-1/#comment-10035 Mon, 29 May 2006 03:40:15 +0000 http://www.ourthoughts.ca/2006/05/23/lesser-of-two-evils/#comment-10035 I don’t think Adam and Eve were created until several verses later.

]]> By: ltbugaf https://www.ourthoughts.ca/2006/05/23/lesser-of-two-evils/comment-page-1/#comment-10026 Mon, 29 May 2006 02:23:48 +0000 http://www.ourthoughts.ca/2006/05/23/lesser-of-two-evils/#comment-10026 Genesis 1:26-28 might be helpful on that question.

]]> By: Tim J. https://www.ourthoughts.ca/2006/05/23/lesser-of-two-evils/comment-page-1/#comment-10025 Mon, 29 May 2006 02:20:38 +0000 http://www.ourthoughts.ca/2006/05/23/lesser-of-two-evils/#comment-10025 “One of the other examples that was mentioned was Adam partook of the fruit of the tree of good and evil as he knew God had told him to go forth and multiply.”

I’m not so sure he really knew this. The only commandment given directly to him was to cleave unto her.

]]> By: ltbugaf https://www.ourthoughts.ca/2006/05/23/lesser-of-two-evils/comment-page-1/#comment-9909 Sun, 28 May 2006 03:56:39 +0000 http://www.ourthoughts.ca/2006/05/23/lesser-of-two-evils/#comment-9909 Re: #2, it’s a choice between two evils because it’s a dichotomy between two evil results. In the example of killing a spouse to save a child, the choice is between two sins, two evils—choose the murder of the child or the murder of the adult. One murder is going to happen—one of two possible evils. So the challenge is to decide which evil—which murder—is more acceptable. In the instance of robbing to pay a kidnap ransom, there is once again a choice between two sins, not one—is it more tolerable that the kidnap victim be killed, or that the robbery be committed? Two sins, two commandments, two evils—a choice between them.

]]> By: rick https://www.ourthoughts.ca/2006/05/23/lesser-of-two-evils/comment-page-1/#comment-9895 Sat, 27 May 2006 19:09:03 +0000 http://www.ourthoughts.ca/2006/05/23/lesser-of-two-evils/#comment-9895 For some reason when I read “What would dire circumstances be in your life that you would break a commandment and hope it justified it?” I immediate thought of false idols, and American Idol …

Odd stuff happens when I read posts here…

]]> By: Kim Siever https://www.ourthoughts.ca/2006/05/23/lesser-of-two-evils/comment-page-1/#comment-9838 Sat, 27 May 2006 02:52:39 +0000 http://www.ourthoughts.ca/2006/05/23/lesser-of-two-evils/#comment-9838 “would you commit robbery to pay off a kidnapping ransom? If you were given a choice by someone holding a child of yours at gunpoint to kill your spouse to save your child would you?”

I don’t see how either of these instances are examples of being the lesser of two evils, or breaking one commandment to follow though with another. Both instances only have one commandment being broken.

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