In Holiness evil desires cannot exist!

In Holiness evil desires cannot exist!

The question of whether God could use his Omniscience to create an evil even though he didn’t?  That kind of surmisal would create in itself an attitude that does not belong in the world God created.  To put an end to that type of understanding we must look at the meaning of God’s Holiness.  “So be perfect, just as your heavenly Father is perfect.”  (Mt 5: 48).  That word perfect towards God is what holiness describes.  “Holiness has no room for evil to enter a man who is the image and likeness of God.”

“Let the hearts of those who seek the Lord rejoice.”  Although man can forget God or reject him, He never ceases to call every man to seek him, so as to find life and happiness. But this search for God demands of man every effort of intellect, a sound will, “an upright heart,” as well as the witness of others who teach him to seek God.  (CCC 30).

Questioning the idea of God using his essence to create something evil, even if he could, would be a direct abomination to his Omniscience.  To begin with, God not only wouldn’t consider such a travesty, he cannot do that.  It is impossible for a holy person to even consider the idea of becoming like a man without the virtue of being in the "likeness" of God in his weakened condition.  His Holiness will not allow the thought of sin to enter his being which is beyond the very thought of God.

Many people who want to use God’s name as a way to satisfy their own transverse type of reasoning might tell anyone willing to listen that he might be the very creator of sin so he can remedy it.   That would be a contradiction to God since his Holiness will not allow that probability.  God did allow sin to exist only so he would be the very essence of forgiveness. 

God is infinitely good and all his works are good.  Yet no one can escape the experience of suffering or the evils in nature which seem to be linked to the limitations proper to creatures: and above all to the question of moral evil.  Where does evil come from?  “I sought whence evil comes and there was no solution,” said Augustine, and his own painful quest would only be resolved by his conversion to the living God.  For “the mystery of lawlessness” is clarified only in the light of the “mystery of our religion.”  The revelation of divine love in Christ manifested at the same time the extent of evil and the superabundance of grace.  We must therefore approach the question of the origin of evil by fixing the eyes of our faith on him who alone is its conqueror.  (CCC 385).

Sin is an entity of Darkness;  He who chooses darkness is indeed one who welcomes sin!

God, “He who is,” revealed himself to Israel as the one “abounding in steadfast love and faithfulness.”  These two terms express summarily the riches of the divine name.  In all his works God displays not only his kindness, goodness, grace, and steadfast love, but also his trustworthiness, constancy, faithfulness, and truth.  “I give thanks to your name for your steadfast love and your faithfulness.”  He is the Truth, for “God is light and in him there is no darkness;”  “God is love,” as the apostle John teaches.  (CCC 214). 

Ralph B. Hathaway