The document discusses what mankind has attempted to do to deal with the problem of evil and sin throughout history. It describes how various religions have tried to gain freedom from evil through practices like idol worship, sacrificing babies, pursuing philosophical ideals, obeying moral rules, and the belief that humans can become gods. However, it argues that nothing man can do on his own is sufficient, as sin and death entered the world when Adam disobeyed God. The only solution is what God has done through Jesus Christ - by sending His Son to die for humanity's sins, those who believe in Him can be forgiven and granted eternal life.

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3. The following discussion is my attempt to give a very
broad dealing with what man has done. You may find
weaknesses in the presentation, but I wanted to give
somewhat of a picture of what men have done to try to
deal with the problem of evil.

4. • Before we consider this question, let’s look at what man has
attempted to do.
• Though mankind forfeited the earth to Satan in the Garden of
Eden II, and though he joined Satan in renouncing his
allegiance to God, Satan didn’t succeed in getting man to
pledge allegiance to him, either (at first).
• But he did succeed in subjugating man through fear of bodily
harm and death.
• And man himself tried all sorts of ways to make himself free
from evil and sin.
• The most common way was to make an idol that substituted
for God and represented evil angelic beings.
• They then worshipped those idols and set up systems of
religion connected to those idols thus worshiping Satan.

5. • We can see all around us evidence of man’s attempt to rid
himself of sin and gain immortality.
• One of the earliest religions was a system of idols which
required babies to be burned alive to the idol/god in order to
attempt to gain protection of the god and prosperity and
eventual eternal life for the followers.
• Another system of religion attempted to use philosophy to
cause the followers to give up any hope of anything but death,
but if you lived a good enough life, or if you still needed to
burn sins off your spirit, it would be re-born as someone else
to suffer and burn off more sins until one’s spirit reached a
point of no longer having sin on the spirit and then it would
go into a state of total cessation of being when it would cease
being re-born.

6. • Still other religions offered no hope for eternal life, but
concentrated on living in this life with peace and a measure
of pleasure.
• One of the common ideas of these religions was that of
having peace, comfort and prosperity in this life.
• For the most part this was achieved by living a good life and
not doing anything bad or having evil thoughts.
• To achieve this peace, some of them practiced self-denial of
all pleasure in order to “purify” themselves.
• Others practiced TM to keep their minds from having evil
thoughts.
• And still others have resorted to trying to obey a lot of moral
rules and laws.

7. • Finally, there are those religions that taught and
still teach that each of us is on our way to becoming
a god as the next step in our development.
• We can see, then, that men have had a variety of
ways to try to handle the problem of evil.
• None of them answer the main problem: our
separation from the God who created us and who
alone can give us eternal life and free us from sin.

8. What can man do about this problem?
•The answer is quite simple – nothing in himself.
•When Adam and Eve sinned by eating the forbidden
fruit with it’s penalty of death, they brought sin and
death into the human race.
Like a hereditary defect or disease that is passed
down from generation to generation, the sin nature
and death passed down to you and me, and everyone
else.
We’re all destined to die physically.
And as it is appointed unto men once to die,
but after this the judgment: (Hebrews 9:27)
Heb 9:27 มี​ข้อกำหนด​สำหรับ​มนุษย์​ไว้​แล้ว​ว่ำ​จะ​ตำย​ครั้ง​เดียว​และ​
หลังจำก​นั้น​ก็​จะ​มี​กำร​พิพำกษำ​ฉัน​ใด​

9.  …since by man came death… (1 Corinthians 15:21a)
 เพรำะ​ว่ำ​ควำม​ตำย​ได้​อุบัติ​ขึ้น เพรำะ​มนุษย์​คน​หนึ่ง​เป็น​เหตุ​ฉัน​ใด
 …as in Adam all die…(1 Corinthians 15:22a)
 เพรำะ​ว่ำ​คน​ทั้ง​ปวง​ต้อง​ตำย​เกี่ยวเนื่อง​กับ​อำดัม​ฉัน​ใด
 Wherefore, as by one man sin entered into the world,
and death by sin; and so death passed upon all men,
for that all have sinned: (Romans 5:12)
 Rom 5:12 เหตุ​ฉะนั้น​เช่น​เดียว​กับที่​บำป​ได้​เข้ำ​มำ​ใน​โลก​เพรำะ​คนๆ เดียว​
และ​ควำม​ตำย​ก็​เกิด​มำ​เพรำะ​บำป​นั้น​และ​ควำม​ตำย​ก็​ได้​แผ่​ไป​ถึง​มวล​มนุษย์​
ทุก​คน​เพรำะ​มนุษย์​ทุก​คน​ทำ​บำป​

10. There is our situation.
•Sin came into the world through Adam , with its
penalty of physical death for everyone.
•And then sin has been passed down to us with its
penalty of physical death.
•And we can’t do anything to stop it from
happening.
•The sin is on our spirits and souls and we can’t get
rid of it no matter what we try.
•And the sad thing is we will continue to sin more
and more, adding to our condemnation.
So far, I’ve only dealt with the immediate result of sin
(although it may take from 70-120 years to happen)
and that’s physical death.

11. There’s another death that is more terrible and each
soul with sin on it is destined for that death, too.
•This death is to be thrown into the lake of fire (we
call it hell) forever.
•Because nothing with sin on it can enter into
heaven in God’s presence.
God’s holiness would destroy us if we entered
into His presence with just one sin on our soul.
It’s his mercy that we are kept out of His
presence while we have sin on our souls.
His justice demands the penalty of the Lake of
Fire for that one sin.
•Therefore, our souls and spirits (which are the real
us) cannot enter into heaven but are destined for the
Lake of Fire in our natural sinful condition.

12. • That’s the law; that’s strict justice which can never
be administered with mercy.
• We’re in a lot of trouble, but there is a solution in
what God has done about the problem of evil.
• We’ll look more into detail about that in the next
lesson. But we don’t have to be condemned to the
Lake of Fire.
• God took the punishment for us in the crucifixion of
His only begotten Son to pay for all our sins and to
clean our souls and spirits of the sins that were on
them from the past.
• We have to only ask God to forgive us and cleanse us
of all unrighteousness and for Jesus to be our Savior
and Lord.

13. • John 3:16 For God so loved the world, that he gave his
only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him
should not perish, but have everlasting life.
• John 3:17 For God sent not his Son into the world to
condemn the world; but that the world through him
might be saved.
• 16 เพรำะ​ว่ำ​พระ​เจ้ำ​ทรง​รัก​โลก​จน​ได้​ทรง​ประทำน​พระ​บุตร​องค์​เดียว​ของ
พระ​องค์​เพื่อ​ทุก​คน​ที่​วำงใจ​ใน​พระ​บุตร​นั้น​จะ​ไม่​พินำศ​แต่​มี​ชีวิต​นิรันดร์​17
เพรำะ​ว่ำ​พระ​เจ้ำ​ทรง​ให้​พระ​บุตร​เข้ำ​มำ​ใน​โลก​มิใช่​เพื่อ​พิพำกษำ​ลงโทษ​โลก​
แต่​เพื่อ​ช่วย​กู้​โลก​ให้​รอด​โดย​พระ​บุตร​นั้น
• 1 John 1:9 If we confess our sins, he is faithful
and just to forgive us our sins, and to cleanse
us from all unrighteousness.

14. • 9 ถ้ำ​เรำ​สำรภำพ​บำป​ของ​เรำ​​พระ​องค์​ทรง​สัตย์​ซื่อ​และ​เที่ยง​ธรรม​​ก็​จะ​ทรง​
โปรด​ยก​บำป​ของ​เรำ​และ​จะ​ทรง​ชำระ​เรำ​ให้​พ้น​จำก​กำร​อธรรม​ทั้งสิ้น​
Bible versions used in this presentations were:
King James Version and Thai Holy Bible 1971 Version