To: Dr. Eckleburg
Let's see -- anything God creates is sinless as God does not create sin. Sin is the absence, the turning away from God. Satan himself (or herself or itself) was created sinless, but sinned by turning away from God.
Sin is like the presence of a vacuum, it is nothing, but it is not "something"
Similarly, we are all sinners, we commit sins, i.e. we turn away from God, we do not accept Him. Yet, we are His creations and His creations are good. So what is then evil? It is our actions which are God-absent. God has not got evil creations like us, but our actions are what defines us
4,489 posted on
09/14/2010 12:02:35 AM PDT by
Cronos
(This Church is holy, the one Church, the true Church, the Catholic Church-St.Augustine)
To: Cronos
Evil is rebellion against God. Evil is what has consumed our human nature after the fall of our first father, Adam.
The only antidote to that evil is the grace of God, given to whom He will according to His own good pleasure for His glory and the welfare of those He has called to Himself as family.
4,492 posted on
09/14/2010 12:11:06 AM PDT by
Dr. Eckleburg
(("I don't think they want my respect; I think they want my submission." - Flemming Rose)
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