What is the origin of Evil in the world? Will it continue forever?
Evil is a spiritual force that exists in the world. We can either accept it or reject it. Evil will exist as long as we allow outselves to accept it. We need to condition ourselves to reject evil. This is where God and religion comes in. Without God, there would be no overpowering reason to reject evil. You could say that you choose to do so on your own, but this is only because you are guided to do so by a higher power. Since we cannot make decisions for others, evil will always exist in the world because we cannot control others and insist that they reject evil.
“But deliver us from evil.” The last petition to our Father is also included in Jesus’ prayer: “I am not asking you to take them out of the world, but I ask you to protect them from the evil one.” (Jn 17:15) In this petition, evil is not an abstraction, but refers to a person, Satan, the Evil One, the angel who opposes God. The devil is the one who “throws himself across” God’s plan and his work of salvation accomplished in Christ. The Bible teaches that Satan is a fallen angel. Scripture sees in this being a fallen angel, called “Satan” or the “devil”. (Cf. Jn 8:44; Rev 12:9) Satan was at first a good angel, made by God: “The devil and the other demons were indeed created naturally good by God, but they became evil by their own doing.” Scripture speaks of a sin of these angels. (2 Pet 2:4) This “fall” consists in the free choice of these created spirits, who radically and irrevocably rejected God and his reign. The devil “has sinned from the beginning”; he is “a liar and the father of
