To have any power is good. Evil is not the negative of good but its absence, so cursed volition would be less and less volition until true volition is gone. Therefore, true and absolute evil, a volition with all goodness removed, is to lock oneself away in a self-made prison, far from grace. This permanent state, that is when it is absolute, is what we call hell.
We have concupiscence, true, and sin clouds and dulls the will and intellect such that it does not operate as freely as they might if pure, but this does not mean that our wills have no freedom or are fully devoid of goodness. Otherwise, man would have no power to accept the free gift of God's grace, man would have no ability to love, for love is voluntary, good, and free.
James Lewis
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2024-04-10 21:55:01
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