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Including doing nothing. Just choose the least evil?
"If any of you lacks wisdom,Including doing nothing. Just choose the least evil?
You pray. You fast even. You seek counsel. The last part is a check on your thinking processes to see what you missed or got wrong.Including doing nothing. Just choose the least evil?
You should have your pastor or some other in-person elder weigh in on the particulars of your situation.
"Where there is no counsel, the people fall;
But in the multitude of counselors there is safety." Proverbs 11:14 NKJV
Including doing nothing. Just choose the least evil?
Including doing nothing. Just choose the least evil?
In one of my college courses, we read some of Reinhold Niebuhr's writings. One of the things Niebuhr wrote was that in some human situations, there is no morally good choice, no choice that is free from sin. (I think it's in The Nature and Destiny of Man, but it's been a long time.) That bothered me, a lot, and I still don't know if I agree with him. But I agree that there are some situations in which, if there's a morally good choice, it's really hard to find.
Think, pray, ask for wise counsel, do everything you can to find another option. Sometimes there are creative courses of action that we haven't thought of.
If you've exhausted all that and still haven't found an alternative, then, yes, choose the least evil. I don't like it, but it's the best I've got.
Including doing nothing. Just choose the least evil?
If you see that you must choose between two wrong things, it is possible you are not seeing correctly. And you need to pray and discover what God has you do, and I will offer that God will not have you choosing between two evil choices >Including doing nothing. Just choose the least evil?
... I'm kind of doubting that 'all' of his options are a sin.
I do not think its possible.Including doing nothing. Just choose the least evil?