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EVIL AND ( The Urantia book, Paper 54, sect. 1,
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CEDOMIL VUGRINCIC, M.D., Ph.D. |
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Evolutionary man finds it
difficult to comprehend fully and to grasp the meanings of evil, error, sin, and iniquity, as well to distinguish
between true and false liberty. EVIL, ERROR, SIN, and INIQUITY Man is slow to perceive that: - contrast in perfection and imperfection
produce potential EVIL; -
conflicting truth and falsehood create confusing ERROR; -
the divine endowment of freewill choice eventuates in the divergent realms of
SIN and RIGHTEOUSNESS; -
persistent pursuit of divinity leads to the continuous rejection, which leads to
the domains of INIQUITY. God neither creates evil nor
permits sin and rebellion. Potential evil is time-space
existent in a universe embracing differential levels of perfection meanings
and values. Sin is potential in all realms
where imperfect beings are endowed with the ability to choose between good
and evil. The deliberate choice of evil constitutes sin. The very conflicting presence
of truth and untruth, fact and falsehood, constitutes the potential for error. The willful
rejection of truth is error. The persistent pursuit of sin
and error is iniquity. TRUE AND FALSE TRUE FALSE ENDURING LIBERTY is predicated
on the reality of justice of intelligence, maturity, brotherhood, and
equality. True liberty is progressively
related to reality and is ever regardful of social equity, cosmic fairness,
universe fraternity and divine obligations. Liberty is suicidal when
divorced from material justice, intellectual fairness, social forbearance,
moral duty, and spiritual values. Liberty is nonexistent apart from
cosmic reality, where all personal reality is proportional to its
relationships of divinity attainment. Unbridled self-will and
unregulated self-expression equal unmitigated selfishness, the acme of ungodliness. mortal imagination. Self-motivated liberty is a
conceptual illusion, a cruel deception. “License for freedom”
masquerading in the “garments of liberty” is the forerunner of abject
bondage. True liberty is the associate
of genuine self-respect, while false liberty is the consort of self-admiration. True liberty is the fruit of
self-control, while false liberty is the assumption of self-assertion. Self-control leads to
altruistic service, while self-admiration leads toward exploitation of others
for the selfish aggrandizement
of such a mistaken individual, willing to sacrifice his righteous attainment
for the sake of possessing unjust power over his fellow men. Wisdom is divine and safe only
when it is cosmic in scope and spiritual in motivation. There is NO GREATER ERROR than
the self-deception which leads intelligent beings to crave the exercise of
power over other beings for the purpose of depriving these persons of their
natural liberties. The golden rule of human
fairness cries out against such fraud, unfairness, selfishness and
unrighteousness. Only true liberty is
compatible with the reign of love and the ministry of mercy. How dare the self-willed
creature to encroach upon the rights of his fellows in the name of personal liberty when the
Supreme Rulers of the Universe stand back in merciful respect for these prerogatives of will and
potentials of personality! NO BEING, in the exercise of his
“supposed” personal liberty, has a right to deprive any other being of those
privileges of existence conferred by the creators and duly respected by all
their loyal associates, subordinates, and subjects. Early evolutionary man might
resort to war for his material liberties, because war is the heritage of lower evolutionary
civilizations, but on the worlds of normal advancing civilizations physical
combat as a technique of adjusting any kind of misunderstandings among men
has long since fallen into disrepute. |
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Reference: The Urantia Book, Urantia Foundation |
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