If you could remove one evil from the world

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Say that, purely hypothetically, you can change the world so that one evil will be removed, but otherwise it will stay the same. So you can choose to remove war, murder, rape, theft, etc.

What would you choose and why?

So just to clarify, do you mean remove an evil from the world or remove a crime from the world? For instance the evil of jealousy or greed can lead to the crime of murder.
 
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Say that, purely hypothetically, you can change the world so that one evil will be removed, but otherwise it will stay the same. So you can choose to remove war, murder, rape, theft, etc.

What would you choose and why?

Unforgiveness. I think it's the driving force behind all sorts of crime.
 
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Unbelief in Jesus, so more people would be open to receiving Him. (Not unbelief in His existence, but unbelief that He can help them.)

If you don't believe that God exists, how can you believe that he can help you?
How can not believing anything be evil? Belief/unbelief is not something that one can consciously control - you either believe something or you dont
 
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Say that, purely hypothetically, you can change the world so that one evil will be removed, but otherwise it will stay the same. So you can choose to remove war, murder, rape, theft, etc.

What would you choose and why?

Depends on what you mean by evil. If it’s anything that causes harm or suffering, malaria. By a wide margin. If we are only referring g to human actions then child abuse in any form. We have a lot of messed up adults, messed up for their whole lives, who were beaten, neglected, or repeatedly emotionally or verbally abused. Ya end that you fix a LOT of problems.
 
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Sounds more like the "4 laws of preaching".
Any response in this topic [Theology] is, necessarily, going to sound like preaching... (I'm not sure what else you were expecting.)
 
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Any response in this topic [Theology] is, necessarily, going to sound like preaching... (I'm not sure what else you were expecting.)

I'm just saying, I felt that was misleading.
When I clicked the link, I was expecting something different. A little more generic and abstract, instead of christian exclusivity.
 
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