The Universe is Biased Toward the Good

I once heard someone say that we are usually right in what we like and wrong in what we dislike.

I think this is so. It is tempting to think that the world is indifferent, that good and evil are on equal footings, but this is not so. The universe is biased toward the good. Evil is relative but good is absolute. There is not anything which does not have some good, while anything that is all evil doesn't even exist.

If we were to take up a thing which is thought to be evil - take Adolf Hitler as an epitome - and stack up the evil in him against the good, we would find the evil to be like a piece of dust and the good to be like the mass of Earth. Even in Hitler the good so outweighs the evil that the evil can be thought of as negligible. I have no special regard for Hitler; I only use him as an example of what popular opinion conceives of as a greatest evil. Sometimes in church I hear such things as "God loves each of us as if we were the only one who exists." Being a man, this applies to Hitler too. In fact, try as I may, I will never love Hitler as much as God does. God loves Hitler more than any man will ever love his wife, more than any mother will love her child. God loved Hitler so much that He made Himself capable of death in order to die to save him. Knowing the zeal with which any parent comes to the defense of their child, dare I wish evil on Hitler, whom God cares for far more?

If Hitler would not have committed suicide, had escaped, and were found decades later, would not just about anyone turn him in to be killed? And yet, if he were found as the last human alive by an alien civilization that had been searching for other intelligent life for thousands of years, would he not be taken in and cherished? Would they not lavish their wealth on him to keep him alive and, if possible, ask questions? Would they not behold him in absolute wonder, marvel at all the workings of his mind and body, thoughts and feelings, and seek to preserve his life as long as possible? Because human life appears to us to be so abundant, we are prone to regard some lives disposable. But if we were to see things as God does, every human life would be as precious as the only human life.

"But God demonstrates his own love for us in this: While we were still sinners, Christ died for us" (Romans 5:8). If anyone stops to meditate on the fact that a human being is so precious that God considered him worth dying for, even while he is still sinning and not only after conversion, there can be no argument about the goodness of even a sinner. There is a prophetic insight in a fragment from the pre-Socratic philosopher Heraclitus: "To God all things are fair and good and right, but men hold some things wrong and some right."