P613:1, 54:0.1 Evolutionary man finds it difficult fully to comprehend the significance and to grasp the meanings of evil, error, sin, and iniquity. Man is slow to perceive that contrastive perfection and imperfection produce potential evil; that conflicting truth and falsehood create confusing error; that the divine endowment of freewill choice eventuates in the divergent realms of sin and righteousness; that the persistent pursuit of divinity leads to the kingdom of God as contrasted with its continuous rejection, which leads to the domains of iniquity.
Evolutionary man finds it difficult to understand the significance and to grasp the meaning of evil, error, sin, and iniquity. Man is slow to see that the process of differentiating between perfection and imperfection produces the potential for evil; also, that conflicting truth with falsehood creates confusing error; and that the divine endowment of free will judgment creates the opposing realms of sin and righteousness; that the persistent pursuit of divine recognition leads to the kingdom of God and by contrast the continuous rejection, leads to the domain of iniquity.
P613:2, 54:0.2 The Gods neither create evil nor permit sin and rebellion. Potential evil is time-existent in a universe embracing differential levels of perfection meanings and values. Sin is potential in all realms where imperfect beings are endowed with the ability to choose between good and evil. The very conflicting presence of truth and untruth, fact and falsehood, constitutes the potentiality of error. The deliberate choice of evil constitutes sin; the willful rejection of truth is error; the persistent pursuit of sin and error is iniquity.
***the Gods neither create evil nor permit sin or rebellion***. The possibility of evil exists only in time based realities, in universal levels which embrace differing levels of the meaning of perfection and value. Sin is potential in all realms where imperfect beings are endowed with the ability to judge between good and evil. The conflicting presence of truth and untruth, fact and falsehood, constitutes the possibility of error. To knowingly judge good to be evil is sin; the willful rejection of truth is error; the persistent pursuit of sin and error is iniquity.
line 61: The moral will creatures of the evolutionary worlds are always bothered with the unthinking question as to why the all-wise Creators permit evil and sin. They fail to comprehend that both are inevitable if the creature is to be truly free. The free will of evolving man or exquisite angel is not a mere philosophic concept, a symbolic ideal. Man's ability to (judge) good or evil is a universe reality. This liberty to choose for oneself is an endowment of the Supreme Rulers, and they will not permit any being or group of beings to deprive a single personality in the wide universe of this divinely bestowed liberty--not even to satisfy such misguided and ignorant beings in the enjoyment of this misnamed personal liberty.
P1260:2, 115:1.1 Partial, incomplete, and evolving intellects would be helpless in the master universe, would be unable to form the first rational thought pattern, were it not for the innate ability of all minds, high or low, to form a (framework) in which to think. If the mind cannot fathom conclusions, if it cannot penetrate to true origins, then will such a mind unfailingly (assume) conclusions and invent origins in order that it may have a means of logical thought within the frame of these mind-created (conclusions). And while such (frameworks) for creature thought are indispensable to rational intellectual operations, they are, without exception, erroneous (FALSE) to a greater or lesser degree.
P1260:3, 115:1.2 Conceptual frames are only relatively true (true as relates to the observer); they are serviceable scaffolding which must eventually give way before the expansions of enlarging cosmic comprehension. The understandings of truth, beauty, and goodness, morality, ethics, duty, love, divinity, origin, existence, purpose, destiny, time, space, even Deity, are also only relatively true (true as relates to the observer). God is much, much more than a Father, but currently the Father is man's highest concept of God; but regardless of this, the Father-Son portrayal of Creator-creature relationship will be augmented by those supermortal conceptions of Deity which will be attained in Orvonton, in Havona, and on Paradise. Man may think in a mortal universe frame, but that does not mean that he cannot enter other higher frames within which thought can take place.
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