Good and Bad

Good and Bad is an expression used often in Scripture. What makes this especially intriguing is that Good and Bad are not opposites. Evil is the opposite of Good and Shalom is the opposite of Bad. What is Bad is not necessarily evil, but what is evil is necessarily Bad. If I miss-spell words and use poor grammar, that is bad, not evil. Scripture uses this expression quite often, with the first in Genesis.

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This article is one of 839 in the four-volume One New Man Bible Companion by Rev. William J. Morford: commentary, word studies, myths corrected, Jewish roots, and maps.