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To: Dr. Eckleburg; kosta50; Forest Keeper; Kolokotronis
Dr E to Kosta""And if, as you theorize, Satan was created “good” but then he fell, how is Satan any different than Adam?""

First of all,satan was and angel unlike Adam who was fully human but both were given free will to choose good or evil.

Second,God cannot will evil or it would be imperfection and error on His part.

Kosta is right ,Dear Sister.Your view of God is zeus like

Here is some more Aquinas to help you understand

That God cannot will Evil

EVERY act of God is an act of virtue, since His virtue is His essence (Chap. XCII).
2. The will cannot will evil except by some error coming to be in the reason, at least in the matter of the particular choice there and then made. For as the object of the will is good, apprehended as such, the will cannot tend to evil unless evil be somehow proposed to it as good; and that cannot be without error.* But in the divine cognition there can be no error (Chap. LXI). 3. God is the sovereign good, admitting no intermixture of evil (Chap. LXI). 4. Evil cannot befall the will except by its being turned away from its end. But the divine will cannot be turned away from its end, being unable to will except by willing itself (Chap. LXXV). It cannot therefore will evil; and thus free will in it is naturally established in good. This is the meaning of the texts: God is faithful and without iniquity (Deut. xxxii, 4); Thine eyes are clean, O Lord, and thou canst not look upon iniquity (Hab. i, 13).

Chap. XCII link
http://www2.nd.edu/Departments/Maritain/etext/gc1_92.htm

Chap. LXI link
http://www2.nd.edu/Departments/Maritain/etext/gc1_61.htm

Chap. LXXV link
http://www2.nd.edu/Departments/Maritain/etext/gc1_75.htm

5,175 posted on 04/26/2008 3:12:45 PM PDT by stfassisi ( ("Above all gifts that Christ gives his beloved is that of overcoming self"-St Francis Assisi))
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To: stfassisi; Dr. Eckleburg; Forest Keeper; Kolokotronis
EVERY act of God is an act of virtue, since His virtue is His essence (+Thomas Aquinas, Chap. XCII)

Amen, SFA. That is the essential part of the teaching of the One Holy Catholic and Apostolic Church, believed, taught and proclaimed everywhere and awlays. God is Virtue, and virtue is not evil. And God is unchanging.

5,177 posted on 04/26/2008 6:48:37 PM PDT by kosta50 (Eastern Orthodox is pure Christianity)
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