– Synonym of sin, of departure from the Law of God, in opposition to good, justice and holiness:
Gen 2 :9 : And the tree of life in the midst of the garden, and the tree of the knowledge of good and evil.
Gen 3 : The serpent was the most subtil of all the wild animals that the Lord God had formed.
Gen 39 :9 : How could I commit such a great crime and sin against God?
Is 55,7 : Renounce the wicked to his behavior, and the sinner to his projects.
– It was accepted in the OT that God would allow physical evil to purify human beings from sin:
Ex 7–11 : The Lord said to Moses: “See, I will make you a god to Pharaoh, and your brother Aaron will be your prophet”.
Job 1–2 : He was a blameless and upright man, who feared God and shunned evil.
Is 45,7 : I seek happiness and bring about unhappiness. I am the Lord, who do all these things.
Jr 16,10-11 : Why did the Lord decree all these scourges against us? What […] is the crime we committed?
– Jesus opposes this thought and says that diseases happen so that God may be glorified:
Jn 9:2: His disciples asked him: “Teacher, who sinned, this man or his parents, that he was born blind?”.
Lc 13,1-5 : They told […] what had happened to certain Galileans, whose blood Pilate had mingled with their sacrifices.
