Is this the cause of evil?

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Is this the cause of evil? Anonymous Sun May 16 23:06:01 2021 No.18257795 [Reply] [Original]

1. The verse ‘What do you have that you have not received?’ applies
to angels too; from God come only good and being and every
good is being and every being is good
2. Why it seems that the devil lacked perseverance because God did
not give it to him
3. That God did not give it because he did not accept it
4. How he sinned and wanted to be like God
5. That before the bad angels fell the good angels could sin
6. How the good are confirmed in their condition and the evil in
their fallen state
7. The question whether the will and its turning toward what it
should not is the very evil that makes them bad, and why it is
that a rational creature cannot of himself turn from evil to good
as he could from good to evil
8. That the will and its turning are not evil itself
9. That injustice is evil itself and is nothing
10. How evil seems to be something
11. That evil and nothing cannot be shown from their names to be
something but only a quasi-something
12. That the angel cannot have its first act of willing from itself, and
that many things can be said to be from an alien capacity but not
from an alien incapacity
13. If it had only the will for happiness, it could neither will anything else nor not will it, and the will, whatever it willed, would
be neither just nor unjust
14. And it would be the same if the angel were given only the will
for rectitude; it is because it was given both that it can be just
and happy
15. That justice is something real
16. That injustice is only the absence of befitting justice
17. Why the angel that abandons it cannot regain justice
18. How the bad angel makes himself bad and the good angel makes
himself good, and that the bad angel owes thanks to God for the
goods he received but abandoned, just as the good angel does
who retained what he had received
19. That the will as such is good and that no thing is evil
20. How God is the cause of evil and willing and action, and how
they are received from him
21. That the bad angel could not foresee that he would fall
22. That he knew that he ought not to will what he sinned by willing
and that he ought to be punished if he were to sin
23. That he ought not to know that he would be punished if he
sinned
24. That even the good angel ought not to know this
25. That the good angel by this fact alone that he now has knowledge of the fall of the devil is said no longer to be able to sin,
though for him this works for glory
26. What horrifies us about the word ‘evil’ and the works that injustice is said to do if both are nothing
27. How evil came to an angel when he was good
28. That the power to will what is unfitting was always good, and
willing itself is good insofar as it exists

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