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| Chapter VI. Of the fact that nothing is created evil by God.
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Chapter VI.
Of the fact that nothing is created evil by God.
God forbid that we should
admit that God has created anything which is substantially evil, as
Scripture says “everything that God had made was very
good.”1526
For if they were
created by God such as they are now, or made for this purpose; viz., to
occupy these positions of malice, and ever to be ready for the
deception and ruin of men, we should in opposition to the view of the
above quoted Scripture slander God as the Creator and author of evil,
as having Himself formed utterly evil wills and natures, creating them
for this very purpose; viz., that they might ever persist in their
wickedness and never pass over to the feeling of a good will. The
following reason then of this diversity is what we received from the
tradition of the fathers, being drawn from the fount of Holy
Scripture.E.C.F. INDEX & SEARCH
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