[KillerGremlin]

I've always interpreted the Bible as a literary work, specifically an interpretation of events past; it is full of moral and stories that a religion was supposed to be built on. All literary works, at least fiction, have a good and an evil. I believe that good cannot exist unless there is evil. In order to qualify good you need to have an opposite, which is evil.

Too have a world with all good would mean that good would no longer exist. If there was no evil or no bad life would cease to exist because one could no longer experience good. By "adding" evil to the world, we are able to experience good. If you never felt pain you would never be happy because you would never know what it feels like to suffer, and then to not suffer. We, as we are now, could not exist without pain/bad/evil. It was like they said in the Matrix....The early Matrix was designed as a perfect world but no one was happy.

Morals work on opposites. You can't have morals without good and evil. If defining good means "don't kill people" than "killing people" needs an opposite definition, evil. Religions are based on a set of beliefs, and beliefs are rooted on morals, which all fall back on Good and Evil.