The Creation of Evil

[LetoAtriedesII]

Since God is all good and whatever he creates is good, then how was it possible for evil to enter the universe. Like what tempted the Devil to fall. Clearly evil was present at that moment to tempt Satan to rebel from God. Are there any good Catholic books on this theological subject?

 

[davidv]

Since God is all good and whatever he creates is good, then how was it possible for evil to enter the universe. Like what tempted the Devil to fall. Clearly evil was present at that moment to tempt Satan to rebel from God. Are there any good Catholic books on this theological subject?

God cannot create evil because evil in not a thing. Evil is the absence of good.

This thinking is developed further here.

 

[Camron]

God cannot create evil because evil in not a thing. Evil is the absence of good.

This thinking is developed further here.

Excellent article!

Added to my favorites.

Just one note from the article you linked…

Not only is evil less extensive, less potent, and less real than good, it has no existence apart from the good. In this sense, and in this sense only, it may be said to be unreal. For evil is not a mere absence of good, it is an absence of due good, of good that ought to have been present; hence, a privation. A privation, however, may be extremely real. What more real than famine? To people slowly dying of starvation, their lack of nourishment is the most actual and dominant reality of their experience. Yet privation of food is obviously a nonentity.