Kosta to FK -””He uses the good and the evil to accomplish His plan, isn’t that what your theology teaches? This is not an endorsement of Mohammad’s work any more than saying that Judas did his part in God’s plan. Did either have a choice? “”
After all God gives us faith or lack of faith; God hardens our hearts or he doesn’t. God saves some and God destroys others. It’s all the Reformed God’s doing.””
Blessed Thomas Aquinas sums this up beautifully....
That in God there can be no Evil
“ESSENTIAL being, and essential goodness, and all other things that bear the name of ‘essential,’ contain no admixture of any foreign element; although a thing that is good may contain something else besides being and goodness, for there is nothing to prevent the subject of one perfection being the subject also of another. Everything is contained within the bounds of its essential idea in such sort as to render it incapable of containing within itself any foreign element. But God is goodness, not merely good. There cannot therefore be in Him anything that is not goodness, and so evil cannot be in Him at all.
3. As God is His own being, nothing can be said of God that signifies participation. If therefore evil could be predicated of Him, the predication would not signify participation, but essence. Now evil cannot be predicated of any being so as to be the essence of any: for to an essentially evil thing there would be wanting being, since being is good.* There cannot be any extraneous admixture in evil, as such, any more than in goodness. Evil therefore cannot be predicated of God.
5. A thing is perfect in so far as it is in actuality: therefore it will be imperfect inasmuch as it is failing in actuality. Evil therefore is either a privation, or includes a privation, or is nothing. But the subject of privation is potentiality; and that cannot be in God: therefore neither can evil.
This truth also Holy Scripture confirms, saying: God is light, and there is no darkness in Him, (I John i, 5) Far from God impiety, and iniquity from the Almighty (Job xxxiv, 10). “” Thomas Aquinas - Of God and His Creatures
Thank you SFA fore the beautiful and always inspiring writing of Blessed Thomas Aquinas, in this case asserting that in God there can be no evil.
The orthodox teaching of the catholic faith is that God is Essense and that in order for evil to be from Hom, evil would be His nature.
This is, of course, contrary to the Christian teaching of an unchanging, eternal God, who is Love itself. Our one, holy, catholic and Apostolic Church teaches that the origin of evil began with a free-will rebellion against God by Satan and his fellow angels. This is indirectly addressed in the Book of Revelation.
But the origin or Christian demonology is also found in Jewish demology, in what the heretics refer to as the "Apocrypha," and represents an act of rebellion against God.
By denying free will, some heretics are faced with a dilemma: whence came the evil. And, once locked in their own error, they conclude—from God! In other words, evil is a creature of God (by necessity), br of evil that in Him!
But if God is Love, if God is Good, then evil is un-love and un-good, indeed un-God! So, in their schizoid theology, the heretics are creating a God who is both the essence of good and evil! But they are locked in by their denial that love is freedom, that only free love is true love and that forced love is no-love, indeed un-love, and by extension un-God.
As the Saint puts it more aptly: "There cannot therefore be in Him anything that is not goodness, and so evil cannot be in Him at all."
And by the same understanding, being the Creator of everything and all, a God is the Giver of Life, not death. Death is un-life, and therefore cannot be from God. Christ tells us that God is the God of the living. God cannot be the cause of death; the sin is. The sin separates us form Life, and results in death. Yet the heretic "God" does kill. He even creates people for the sole purpose of being kept eternally alive so that they can be eternally tortured.
It is through the Gospels and contrasted by our fallen nature that we realize that our very notion of mercy is not of this world, for none it to be found in this world of its own nature. Love is also Mercy, and mercy is un-vengance to our fallen nature. God's vengeance is loving even His enemies. That's the kind of vengeance that burns the most.
In other words, the heretics not only teach that which is not of the Church, but their God is un-God, and essentially a very different deity.