There is evil in the world. In an effort to deny that fact we insist we can fix it. We can't. God alone can change hearts. It is not for nothing that Jesus Christ cast out evil spirits to show he was the Son of God. He taught us: "deliver me from evil." He didn't say deny it.

Psalm 58:3-8

The wicked are estranged from the womb; they go astray from birth, speaking lies.

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They have venom like the venom of a serpent, like the deaf adder that stops its ear,

so that it does not hear the voice of charmers or of the cunning enchanter.

O God, break the teeth in their mouths; tear out the fangs of the young lions, O Lord!

Let them vanish like water that runs away; when he aims his arrows, let them be blunted.

Let them be like the snail that dissolves into slime, like the stillborn child who never sees the sun.

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