The Pastor's Son by William W. Walter
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page 107 of 135 (79%)
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"Yes, God is _all_ Good."
"Then according to this theory that God is all intelligence, you must admit that He is also the bad or evil intelligence found in some men, and if this be true, you could hardly claim that He is all good, for one statement would contradict the other," slowly said the pastor. "You have made a mistake in your reasoning, Mr. Williams. A bad intelligence is not intelligence, but a lack of intelligence, or non-intelligence; in other words, ignorance, and ignorance has no place in the realm of intelligence, for ignorance is evil, and intelligence is good," said the practitioner. "Your explanation sounds very reasonable, but I am not yet willing to agree with you; it may be because I do not fully understand," answered the pastor. "I do not think it possible for man to fully comprehend any science in a few moments, and this science is the science of sciences." "Am I to understand that evil and ignorance have no place in the universe; in other words, are not real?" asked the pastor. "Yes, the good alone is real. It is only through ignorance of the truth that evil seems real, or has place or power." "But we see evil all about us," said the pastor. "This seems so, but it is only a misapprehension of the truth, for evil is not real, has no entity or principle, God (Good) never made it," said the practitioner. |
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