Inherent evil?

[Bill Ferny]

I still do not see how this problem is 'solved' as such in a metaphysical sense - rather, I feel it is resolved in the narrative, with the necessary allowances for our experience of literature and our human ability to work through contradictions (faith and mortality might be profound examples of this aspect of our humanity).

Absolutely true. Every philosopher should bear in mind that when God decided to speak to us, he didn’t use philosophical speculation and metaphysical discourse, but simple narrative and myth, a.k.a. Scripture.

There is a difference between a philological understanding of the term evil and a metaphysical meaning of evil. From a linguistic stand point its nearly impossible to avoid verbalizing evil as a thing. However, from a metaphysical stand point, we can still understand evil as an absence of being that ought to be there.