
St. Thomas Aquinas on Suffering and Evil | Fr. Thomas Petri, O.P.
The Thomistic Institute
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Do You Love Me More Than the Hairy Lobster?
For the christian religion, it's not a enang good and evil in some sort of cosmic battle. There is just goodness. For saint thomas, god doesn't love you because you're good. He loves you because he is good, and his goodness then goes into you as he loves you. And that kind of amazing. God's love bestows goodness, which is the say bestows existence. Evil not exist as a thing. It's an absence. It's a vacuum. All rightf thechristian religion is not a due o dualism. It's not. In fact, that's what our will is, always wanting more good, more perfection, more existence
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