Is everything man has created just as good as everything God has created?

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Everything God created is good. Has God stopped creating or is he still creating by working through us? If he is still creating, but through us, then doesn’t that make everything we create good?

Very confused. Feel free to tell me why I’m wrong and/or an idiot.
 
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CS-B6 said:
Has God stopped creating or is he still creating by working through us?
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He hasn’t stopped creating, because creation wasn’t a one-and-done action that was bound by time. God constantly sustains all things in being.
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then doesn’t that make everything we create good?
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What we make is good insofar as it has being, and is sustained in being by God. But we cannot make something that equals or exceeds the goodness God can bestow, for the simple fact that we do not create absolutely. We only say that we “create” by analogy, in that we cannot create ex nihilo as God does, but rather we “create” out of pre-existing material.

-Fr ACEGC
 
My two cents:

All of creation is good when it participates with God, and bad when it deviates from Him.

As humans we’re not capable of ‘creating’ anything actually new (try and ‘poof’ some sand into existence with nothing but your mind; I’ll wait!) but we can rearrange the things God has already created, and we can align them with good purposes or bad purposes. And the things we arrange can either align excellently with certain qualities, or poorly with those qualities. Etc.
 
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That makes a lot of sense. What do you mean by something being “good insofar as it has being”?
 
Being is goodness. It is better (more good) to be than not to be. Whatever exists, is good.

So a thing is good if it has being, and has being if it is good.

Since God is goodness itself, and the source of all good, then all that is good and all that exists participates in the goodness of God.
 
Is the absence of being or nothingness evil? Or does the absence of being/nothingness not have any moral value?
 
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Evil is a lack of a due good. Moral evil would mean that something was done willfully that was lacking in goodness, or else something was willfully omitted which was due.

Existence or non-existence are not morally good or not good in that sense.
 
I do understand that evil is an action done willfully that lacks goodness. But isn’t existence very similar if not the same as creation? If they are the same, then existence would be good, right? I know existence being good wouldn’t necessarily make non-existence or nothingness evil, but does the Catholic Church have anything to say about nothingness?

Sorry if I’m bothering you with too many questions. I’m very curious, and you’re giving good answers.
 
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God created in the Beginning, but ceased creating and rested on the 7th day. But wait! Didn’t Father just say creation continues today? Yes, I will return to that.

Keep in mind that Jesus’ Resurrection is considered the 8th Day, when creation was renewed.

So, what is this about continual creation? What we mean by this is God sustains creation. Days 1-6 were full of direct miraculous creation. After day 7 we are in the order of providence, with natural laws and all that.
 
Because of free will, some good and some evil come from man. God can and does bring good out of evil, in certain situations. In others, no intervention.
 
I thought this was about the misuse of created physical goods?

Nevertheless, “Through the envy of the devil, death entered the world”

Wisdom of Solomon 2:24
 
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I thought this was about the misuse of created physical goods?

Nevertheless, “Through the envy of the devil, death entered the world”

Wisdom of Solomon 2:24
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Doesn’t God sustain the world?
 
Viruses, of which there are millions (about 5,000 scientifically described), are a reality of this broken world. As I see it, there is no reason to believe that they always existed, but rather they might have been brought about through or first parents’ disobedience. The world must be sustained in order for God’s plan of redemption to be carried out. Therefore, we are sustained as concupiscent beings and the world is sustained with viruses.

But how does a created good become mused - say viruses? Unless you are in, say, a bat virology lab in a province of a large Asian nation, and either discover or develop a novel virus - then release it upon mankind, it is difficult to fathom how one could misuse viruses.
 
I spent my adult life, often risking my life, on assessing human behavior and predicting its actions. Human nature is knowable and is unchanging and unchangeable. I did not have the comfort or safety of pooh poohing others’ divergent thoughts from my armchair One cheats the self when dismissing possibilities out of hand.

From my viewpoint, one might invest in loosely packed sand so as not to abrade the face when communing with fellow ostriches.
 
Why don’t you both stick to the topic of viruses and God? If not, then go have your political conversation elsewhere. I don’t need these superfluous notifications in my email.
 
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