Premise: Evil is a privation of good.
Premise: Any reduction in good, is evil.
Premise: God created all things good.
Premise: Humans are created in the Image and Likeness of God. That is good.
Premise: Human beings cannot get into heaven in their current state. They need a Savior, who is Christ.
Premise: Nothing impure can get into heaven.
Argument: People are created good, but are not good enough for heaven.
Argument: There is a privation there, that is evil
Conclusion: That means that people are really evil, and not good.
But this is contradicting the premises. God created people good and endowed us with His dignity.
A possible contradiction - goodness of creation
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Re: A possible contradiction - goodness of creation
The supernatural destiny of human beings is not part of human nature. It's a gratuitous gift. If we grant the premise (which I think is correct) that the soul is naturally immortal, still God did not have to admit the deceased to Heaven. He could have granted them a simple earthly paradise, or something like the Limbo of the Fathers.
Secondly, although humans are created good, we also all inherit Original Sin, so we are not able to enter Heaven.
Secondly, although humans are created good, we also all inherit Original Sin, so we are not able to enter Heaven.
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Also, "good" does not mean "morally good" , when God says that creation is "good" he doesn't mean creation is moral.
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Re: A possible contradiction - goodness of creation
So because of the privation of good, this means the human nature is evil.Obi-Wan Kenobi wrote: ↑Wed Apr 02, 2025 3:02 pm The supernatural destiny of human beings is not part of human nature. It's a gratuitous gift. If we grant the premise (which I think is correct) that the soul is naturally immortal, still God did not have to admit the deceased to Heaven. He could have granted them a simple earthly paradise, or something like the Limbo of the Fathers.
So we are created good, but thanks to Original Sin, we become evil, because of that privation of good.Secondly, although humans are created good, we also all inherit Original Sin, so we are not able to enter Heaven.
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So something can be "good" but morally evil? I don't understand that.
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Re: A possible contradiction - goodness of creation
No. It's the privation of a due good that makes something evil. The Beatific Vision is not a due good for any created thing.BobCatholic wrote: ↑Wed Apr 02, 2025 10:50 pmSo because of the privation of good, this means the human nature is evil.Obi-Wan Kenobi wrote: ↑Wed Apr 02, 2025 3:02 pm The supernatural destiny of human beings is not part of human nature. It's a gratuitous gift. If we grant the premise (which I think is correct) that the soul is naturally immortal, still God did not have to admit the deceased to Heaven. He could have granted them a simple earthly paradise, or something like the Limbo of the Fathers.
It might be cool to have wings like a bird, but that's not a good due to human nature and so it is not evil that I lack them.
Re: A possible contradiction - goodness of creation
BobCatholic wrote: ↑Wed Apr 02, 2025 10:51 pmSo something can be "good" but morally evil? I don't understand that.
Whatever the opposite of the logical fallacy of "equivocation" might be you are committing the opposite fallacy.
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