WICKEDNESS (Evil)

(See also Evil; Iniquity)

‘being wicked overmuch’ (Ec 7:17): w77 470; w53 62-63

cause: ce 190-193; gc 14-18; w73 617-619; dy 15-18; g73 12/8 28; ad 1653; te 75-78; g68 1/8 14-18; ev 131-149; g66 10/8 7-12, 28-29; ms 492-493

discussion: ce 188-198; hp 131-139; ad 1653-1654

effects on people: g74 3/8 3-4; g73 5/8 3-4; w69 554; w67 275; g66 10/8 3, 12, 15; g64 12/22 3-4; w61 441-445

God’s solution: ce 196-198

hating wickedness: w85 4/1 12-13; w85 11/15 19; kc 74; w79 1/15 13, 19; w60 547-548; w58 426-427

need to be “babes as to badness” (1Co 14:20): w76 7

proper view of: w85 4/1 12-13; w85 11/15 20, 22; w84 11/15 13; w74 112; w74 153; w71 606; w70 740-741; g66 10/8 9; w61 443-444

responsibility to expose: w85 11/15 19-22; ad 1053; w66 131-132; g64 3/22 3-4

Satan’s organization: w85 3/15 15-18; w81 5/1 12-14; g55 7/8 8

soon to end: w78 7/15 4; gc 21-23

symbolic representation: pm 218-222

tolerance of, by the people: g83 1/22 12-15

why people do bad things: w83 2/15 8-9

why permitted: ce 188-198; uw 55-61; g82 2/8 16-18; kc 37-45; tr 65-74; g81 4/22 3-11; hp 131-139; g80 1/22 3-4; w79 8/1 6-7; w78 2/1 18-19; w78 7/15 3-4; w77 586-588; lp 48-64; w76 252-253; gh 106-115; w74 643-644; g74 4/8 16-17; g74 10/8 14-17; tp73 46, 52-57; g72 10/22 10-12; ad 1538, 1653-1654; w70 5-6, 740; w69 35-39, 44-45; g68 1/8 27-28; ev 150-159; yl 21; g66 6/22 7; g66 10/8 13-16, 28-29; im 298-312; ms 494-495; g65 7/8 7; w64 389-390; g64 6/22 27-28; w63 261-263, 691; g63 9/22 8; g63 12/22 5-8; g61 1/8 6; g60 4/22 9-11; w59 515-516; w58 254; g58 11/22 5-7; g57 10/22 25-26; w54 388-390; el 41; sa37 40-42; g37 2/10 305-306; w36 191; v-2 192-197; cc 17

benefits: w85 9/15 4; ce 194-196

clergy failure to understand: hp 131-132

view of a rabbi: w83 4/15 28

Quotations

we begin to believe in a supernatural force with which man made a compact for destruction: w82 4/1 13

wicked people exist: w77 103; w77 687; g77 5/8 12