Unless you're like me. For me, caffeine is evil. At first when I drink it, it wakes me up, I get hyper, and it's great. However, after an hour or so, sometimes faster depending on what I'm doing, something horrible happens. Caffeine increases insulin in the blood and lowers the blood sugar level. Then, yada yada yada, caffeine does weird things to my brain and makes my depression and anxiety worse. Normally, despite having anxiety and depression, I have trained my brain to think pretty positively in most areas of my life, and I manage to be decently happy and sort of upbeat most of the time. However, my brain on caffeine is different; my thoughts reach their lowest point, where nearly every thought is negative.
I drink decaf tea every day, just because I love the stuff and I can't get enough. I ran out of tea today, so my roommate gave me some that she took from the dining commons. It had medium caffeine content. Well, I really wanted tea, and, since it wasn't highly caffeinated, I decided to drink it. Bad idea. I was sitting in class like a half hour later, and I basically started to hate my life. All of a sudden, I hated Bible class. When I left class, I wanted to eat dinner alone because being around people was stressing me out way more than usual. Unfortunately, people sat and my table anyway and I was sad that I couldn't just be alone. Then I was sad that I couldn't talk to them because I just wasn't feelin it. I felt anxiety because I wasn't saying anything, so I scarfed down my food and left. As I was walking away, I had anxiety that they were talking about how worthless I was for not talking and running off, and that no one likes me anyway because I'm just boring and unappealing. They must have actually been relieved that I left.
Now, a few hours later, I know that that's probably ridiculous, they probably didn't talk behind my back, and they probably don't think I'm worthless.. Probably.. But that's just what I think because of my depression and anxiety, especially when caffeine messes with my brain. It's not just bad for people with mental disorders. When people have too much caffeine, it can keep them up at night or even kill them.
It just goes to show how something good can also be evil.
I'm sure you guys know Batman and the Joker.. Well, did you know the Joker was initially good, too? He started out as just a normal guy. Supposedly, he worked as a chemical engineer at a plant, and then he quit to follow his dream of being a comedian. He failed, and in trying to provide for his pregnant wife, he decided to rob the chemical company he used to work for. His wife and child died in a car crash, Batman chased him until he fell into some chemicals, and then he came out all white-faced, green-haired, and psychotic. Again, something created good became something evil.
I'm just sayin', since the Joker obviously has some kind of mental disorder, I'm pretty sure that if the Joker had caffeine, he would be right up next to Satan himself.
Like caffeine and the Joker, all of God's creation was created good. In Genesis, God created everything and saw that it was good. Humans, he actually saw as "very good."
So if God created everything to be good, why does evil exist? Did God create evil?
My youth leader once compared it to the light and the darkness. Darkness doesn't exist. There is no source of darkness. Rather, there is a source of light, and darkness is just the word we use to describe the absence of light. In the same way, evil doesn't exist. There is no source of evil, but rather, evil is just the absence of good. Therefore, God didn't create evil. God only created good.
Evil became a thing because of Satan. You see, Satan isn't some creepy red monster with horns. Satan's name used to be Lucifer, and he was the most beautiful angel in heaven. God created Lucifer to be good. At some point, Lucifer tried to take his power to the next level; he tried to be like God. By doing this, he was up to no good, and that's when he became evil. God cast him and his followers out of heaven, and now they tempt us.
In the same way, humans became evil when Eve tried to eat the fruit of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil. By using the fruit to gain this knowledge, she was trying to be like God, and that made her evil.
Evil just fits into our lives like the shadows. It's just there and there's not really much we can do to avoid it. God did give us a solution, though. Because Jesus is the Light of the World, with him, we can cast away the darkness.
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