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- P1. A thing has some amount of properties.
- P2. Properties have ontology.
- C1. Therefore, things have ontology.
- P3. All things originate within God’s all-knowing mind.
- P4. Goodness has ontology.
- C2. Therefore, goodness is a thing.
- P5. Evil (NOT-good) is the lack or negation of goodness.
- C3. Therefore, whatever good is, evil is not. (IF going left = Good, THEN going NOT-left = NOT-Good)
- C4. Therefore, evil has no ontology.
- P6. God is the fullness of being; fullness then implies no absences or rather the absence of absence.
- P7. God desires that humans know and love Him.
- P8. Love and true knowledge require freedom of thought and will.
- P9. Imperfect beings with free will can reject truth and thus good, producing evil by definition. (See "Truth is Good" below for why it’s the case that truth is good.)
- P10. Perfect beings with free will do not reject truth and thus cannot produce evil.
- C5. Therefore, the possibility of evil exists only for free, imperfect beings.
- C6. Therefore, God is not the originator of evil but only of good (which exists fully in Him).
- C7. Therefore, although imperfect beings originated evil, they did not create any new ontological reality apart from God—evil is merely the absence of good, not a created substance.
- Truth is Good: https://pastebin.com/fbLirZqh
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