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DIALECTICS OF GOOD AND EVIL

C. D. Balan

Abstract

The tragic events that have taken place recently in Romania (the case of the 64 young people dead in the fire from Bucharest club > on October 30, 2015), but also those that happened around the world because of the attacks, give us a lot of questions and reflections related to the dialectic of good and evil, but also to the true faith that can accept suffering and death to enjoy eternity in the Risen Christ. This dialectic of good and evil, of highlighting the good only in the "fight" with evil, made from Dostoevsky a so appreciated and contemporary novelist. Rodion Raskolnikov is the exponent of this struggle, moving from "everything is permitted" to the suffering of purification and confession of sinfulness. And this "stage" can only be fulfilled by faith in God, and this is because faith is not a collection of purely theoretical truths. If faith was really only a sum of theoretical, abstract truths, and it would have an exclusively rational, cerebral character, of course it would not be firm and easy to shake. Therefore, if we want to convince of our faith and want to verify it, let's check it through experience, living according to the words of the Gospels. If we have doubts in ourselves, and we want to know for sure that the Gospel teaching, which contains the grounds of our faith, has been given by God, let's try to fulfill its orders in our lives, let's obey to its rules, let's impregnate with its spirit, and then we will convince from our own experience that it is from God, that it reflects God will, because we will immediately feel an absolute justice and an endless wisdom that are inaccessible to the people; we will immediately understand that people cannot create such a doctrine.

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DOI resolver: doi.org/10.5593/sgemsocial2017/22/S09.059

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