St. Thomas Aquinas on Suffering and Evil | Fr. Thomas Petri, O.P.
The Thomistic Institute
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Saint Thomas - Is God Implicit in Moral Evil?
God doesn't interfere normally or prevent us from using and being the people he created us to be, which is creatures with free choice. Hee keeps evil people in existence. Now, why is that not the free will defence shot down earlier? For saint thomas, god certainly is implicated,. i mint be careful how i say this, but god is certainly implicated in moral evil because he's keeping the creature that does evil in existence.
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