No it doesn’t work because love being blind doesn’t make all blind things love. There is absolutism in the nature of God. Neither blindness or Ray Charles (mmm what I saayyyy) has this absolutism.
You keep pointing to privation as something that can’t be created. I don’t follow that logic
Cold is a lack of heat - I can remove heat and create cold. I have a machine in my kitchen that does just that. A cold making machine. Keeps my food fresh and makes ice.
If Death is a privation of life - death can be made to manifest. Death is a actual state of being. You can kill something.
If you bring that state into being, you are creating that state. You can’t have cold with out heat. You can’t have death without life.
You can doubt my sincerity but why would I bother being here. I just doubt the basic tenets of Christianity. I was raised Catholic but the more I thought about it the less sense it makes. I came here to see if I’m missing something and try and regain my faith. I will grant you that it doesn’t seem to be working.
You do not seem to understand goodness and evil. Goodness and evil are not like heat and cold, front and back. Heat/cold and front/back are relative terms. 100 degrees can be colder than 110 degrees yet 100 degrees can be hotter than 90 degrees. A front can only exist in relation to a back, there can be no front without a back nor a back without a front.
Goodness and evil are not like this. Goodness exists independently of evil. You can have goodness without evil. This is different than your example of heat/ cold and front/back which need the other to exist.
All things are good because they have the perfection of existing. Goodness, the “bonum” is a transcendental. All things that are, are good. One could say even the devil is good becausse he has certain perfections by his existence. he is not morally good because he abuses his being and points it to a disordered end. There is a difference in the way things are good. Things are good because they exist but can also be used for bad which makes their use evil. The evil in their use is because the use was uninted by the creator and lacks that perfection. We must distinguish between goodness of being and goodness/evil of use.
God’s “goodness” is not the same as the goodness of created things. Each thing can only be as good or as perfect as its nature. A man can never be as “good” as God because he can never have all of the perfections God has. This does not make man bad or evil, because he was never intended to have these perfections. What would make a man bad or evil morally–he would always have trascendental goodness by the fact he has the perfection of existence–would be him pointing himself towards an end contrary to the end --God–that he was created for.
Think of it this way. A watch that does not tell time is a bad watch because it does not fulfill the purpose for which it was created, a boat that does not float is also bad. Though they cannot be bad morally because they do nat have freedom of choice, and still are good in-so-far as they exist but are bad/evil because they lack the perfection of telling time, or floating, depending on the purpose for which they were created.
Death lacks the perfection of life and is evil. Death can be caused but not created, there is a difference in the two. You cannnot create a privation though you can cause one. A privation is a lack of being a nothingness. You cannot create “nothing” since “nothing” does not exist and has no being. Strictly speaking evil does not exist because it has no existence of its own. It is a lack of perfection. Evil is a way of describing something–a good or perfection-- that is missing not describing something extra. Saying an action is evil does not mean that evilness exists in that action, it means that the action does not have a good end. Evil does not exist in opposition to good as a thing is hot or cold, evil tells of a lacking or missing perfection.
