Therefore, its goodness may proceed from God’s initiative, but any evil or sinfulness proceeds from our deficiency, and not from God’s will, per se.
Let’s see what the
Catholic Theology has to say about it:
Catholic Encyclopedia : Evil
“But we cannot say without denying the Divine omnipotence, that another equally perfect universe could not be created
in which evil would have no place.”
As we see above @Gorgias, God could create this world that we never commit even a single act of sin.
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CCC 310 But why did God not create a world so perfect that no evil could exist in it?
With
infinite wisdom and
goodness God freely willed to create a world in a state of journeying towards its
ultimate perfection, 314 through
the dramas of evil and sin. – God created
the dramas of evil and sin for our benefit.
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THE REASON
GOD CREATED THE DRAMAS OF EVIL AND SIN.
Life without suffering
would produce spoiled brats, not joyful saints.
Our struggle and tribulation while journeying towards our
ultimate perfection through the dramas of evil and sin is the cost which in-prints the virtue/ nobility into our souls – the cost of our road to nobility and perfection.
In this world man has to learn by experience and contrast, and to develop by the overcoming of obstacles (Lactantius, “De ira Dei”, xiii, xv in “P.L., VII, 115-24. St. Augustine “De ordine”, I, vii, n. 18 in “P.L.”, XXXII, 986).
As we see above, this world is our sin effected training ground, created by God, God is our everything, includes our “drill sergeant.”
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CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Free Will
explains;
God is the author of
all causes and effects, but is not the author of sin, because an action ceases to be sin if God wills it to happen. Still God is the
cause of sin.
God’s omnipotent providence exercises
a complete and perfect control over all events that happen, or will happen, in the universe.
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CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA Divine Providence
explains;
His wisdom He so
orders all events within the universe that the end for which it was created may be
realized.
God preserves the universe in being;
He acts in and with every creature in each and all its activities.
He directs all, even evil and sin itself, to the final end for which the universe was created.
All events preordained by God in accordance with His all-embracing purpose.
Evil, therefore, ministers to God’s design” (St. Gregory the Great, op. cit.,
God is the sole ruler of the world.
His will governs all things. He loves all men, desires the salvation of all, and His providence extends to all nation.
http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/12510a.htm
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AS WE SEE ABOVE
In His training program God
designed every obstacles down to its minutest details, and
He also designed His aids for us down to its minutest details, the way He aides us that we all will able to overcome
every our obstacles.
At the end of our
training program on this earth,
the elect will be joyful saints in heaven.
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God bless
