disagree with Pastor Brigham sermon's implication that evil on Earth comes strictly from Satan.
Satan may be the prime source of some evil on Earth but most evil comes from human beings.
This won't be self-evident to most Christians until humans encounter a sentient species who met their version of Christ and chose a righteous species culture for themselves.
Remember, the observable universe is 9billion light years wide and God is likely to be very generous with sentience across the universe.
Probably some sentient species have earned a lot more gifts than human beings have acquired.
That means that Christ, although taking a human shape on Earth, probably assumed many sentient species shapes and had different outcomes from his different visits to sentient species.
It is probably common that single planet restricted sentient species would foster the idea that God only visited their world, and the universe is empty of other sentient life.
Such naivete is quickly erased from sentient species culture once a wider understanding of how busy God has been in 14 billion years.
It has been recently proposed that in human awakening to self-consciousness some tens of millennia in the past spawned a conflict between the innate human animal nature and the new self-consciousness given by God.
Think of it as God choosing to imprint awareness of God's nature, a gift of sentience.
Imagine a lion resting from its labors, consciousness of God is distant but desire to fill its belly is close.
The issue that I have with Pastor Brigham's sermon on evil is it skipped humanity's responsibility for the current state of this nation's secular culture and equally for the state of the global secular culture.
Satan might like the current state of secular culture, but it took humans to create it.
Unlike the beasts of Earth, humanity can evolutionarily change its cultures.
There are likely troublemakers like Satan across the universe doing their best to create misery insentient cultures and having some measure of success.
However, God enables righteous sentient cultures to consistently defeat such troublemakers.
In the sermon, only a troublemaker's efforts are mentioned without a clear call to be righteous.
There is two types of evil: Satan's primal evil and a human desire to avoid righteousness.
The second coming of Christ is humanity's success in creating a righteousness culture and choosing to show Christ in their heart, frequently.
A change in humanity's heart is an evolutionary effort with success and steps backward.
This is what is missing in current Christian scripture, awareness that human culture changes in evolutionary steps with God providing the inspiration.
Paul's letters to the churches he supported is appropriate for the human culture he lived.
In the centuries that followed a Gospel was created which expanded earlier teachings.
Then Satan, using the Ottoman empire, erased the spirit of much that had been created.
That change occurred just after the Roman empire accepted the posterity of 'The Way'.
1500 years has passed since Satan began his effort with the Ottoman empire,
Why are sermons still relying only on scripture written 1500 years ago?
The content is available about what God has had to say in those 1500 years, why is humanity allowing Satan to keep us silent about what God had to say for 1500 years?
Take a close look at what God had to say in that span of time.
Time for Christian sermons to evolve.
