What does it mean to recognize what is good and what is evil?
Moses spoke thus to God’s people: “Behold, I have set before you this day life and good, death and evil… I have set before you life and death, blessing and curse: therefore, choose life, that you and your descendants may live.” This is the teaching of the ancient Christian book known as the Didache (Teaching) of the Apostles:
There are two ways, one of life and one of death, and there is a great difference between the two ways. The way of life is this: First, you shall love God who made you; second, your neighbor as yourself; and whatever you would not have done to you, do not do to another. But the way of death is this: First of all, it is evil and full of cursing: murders, adulteries, lusts, fornications, thefts, idolatries, magic arts, sorceries, robberies, false witness, hypocrisies, duplicity, deceit, pride, malice, stubbornness, greed, abusive language, jealousy, audacity, arrogance, boastfulness. (Didache, 1:1-2; 5:1)
To discern and choose good over evil, the Scriptures testify, there is an inward law of God, the witness of conscience, as well as the outward, revealed Law of God, embodied in his commandments.
