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<blockquote data-quote="Mark Quayle" data-source="post: 76209919" data-attributes="member: 410020"><p>The way I see it is pretty much like quite a few see it. "In philosophy, privation may refer to the absence of a necessary quality in the universe. For example, as part of his theodicy, Augustine denied the existence of evil as its own entity; rather, he described evil as a privation, or going wrong, of good, privatio boni."</p><p></p><p>As I understand it, where God says he creates evil, he is referring to calamity, hard things, even suffering, but not sin and not evil in the sense of moral depravity or moral negation. He caused that sin be, but did not create sin.</p><p></p><p>It is the devil, the author of sin, that is evil, (he and his minions), and humanity, slaves to sin, that are evil.</p><p></p><p>There is a truth concerning God, however, that is largely lacking in modern Christian dogma and doctrine, a horrifying holy truth, that God has a side to him that we cannot abide at present in our sin ridden world. I think this is evident in such things as the angel he sent to slay the firstborn of Egypt, and in his severe wrath at the deeds of men. We have not been taught the horror that is sin, and the texture and flavor of God's power against it. "Fear him who is able to destroy both soul and body in hell."</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Mark Quayle, post: 76209919, member: 410020"] The way I see it is pretty much like quite a few see it. "In philosophy, privation may refer to the absence of a necessary quality in the universe. For example, as part of his theodicy, Augustine denied the existence of evil as its own entity; rather, he described evil as a privation, or going wrong, of good, privatio boni." As I understand it, where God says he creates evil, he is referring to calamity, hard things, even suffering, but not sin and not evil in the sense of moral depravity or moral negation. He caused that sin be, but did not create sin. It is the devil, the author of sin, that is evil, (he and his minions), and humanity, slaves to sin, that are evil. There is a truth concerning God, however, that is largely lacking in modern Christian dogma and doctrine, a horrifying holy truth, that God has a side to him that we cannot abide at present in our sin ridden world. I think this is evident in such things as the angel he sent to slay the firstborn of Egypt, and in his severe wrath at the deeds of men. We have not been taught the horror that is sin, and the texture and flavor of God's power against it. "Fear him who is able to destroy both soul and body in hell." [/QUOTE]
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