Mark Donovan
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Hi guys,
I have a few questions regarding creation and Satan.
- Is everything that God makes intrinsically good at its creation?
I'm assuming that evil is any departure from that original state
of goodness.
- Is everything that God makes necessarily intrinsically good because it comes from
God who is only good?
- Does God hate Satan?
God hates what is evil because it is opposed
to His very nature but I'm not sure that something could be pure evil
if evil exists as a privation of good.
- Is there any goodness, albeit only in his very existence as a
tribute to God's creative act,
in Satan?
- Could God somehow love
Satan, but hate Satan's opposition to His Divine Will, or is
his opposition so complete as to leave no goodness to love?
Thank you for all of your time, study, thoughts, and prayer.
Yisep YHWH,
— Mark Donovan
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Is everything God creates intrinsically good at creation and is there any goodness in Satan? }
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Mary Ann replied:
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Hi Mark,
Everything God made is good, insofar as it is. Evil is a lack of what
should be — it is:
- a lack conformity to God's will, in the case of sin
- a lack of a proper
relationship with God, in the case of original sin, which also deprives
us of the effects of that original relationship
- a lack of order in the
case of physical evils in nature.
Things are not good because they
come from God, although God cannot create evil. Things are good because
they are, and are what they are, both of which are due to God. God looked
at
His creation and saw that it was good.
Satan is not pure
evil. He is a spirit created by God. Satan is good in his being. He
has turned his whole self against God, so he is completely morally
evil. He has perverted his will and
his entire nature to evil and because angels are spirits, they act wholly,
not in parts, but his being, his be—ing, the fact of his existing, is
good as you said so well.
Mary Ann
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