Born in Evil, Bred in Evil, True to Evil

[Dimmesdale]

OK, so let's take Abrahamist "theodicy" for what it's worth and see if this example can ever possibly be plugged in and made to work, the Sega Genesis game that is trying to work with this dilapidated Nintendo console....

A person is born to hate others, to engage in the vilest affections and drives, to actively despise those different from him, to steal and maraud and rape with the rest of the family gang, to indulge in the most brutal activities, and to be told all the while that he is in the right, even when he knows he isn't.

There is no way he could desist from these acts without it being an instantaneous suicide for him. So from an early age he has surrendered himself to self-preservation. He himself becomes demoralized himself and lost to himself, in a way that is irrecoverable. Active willfulness and hate is all he feels to his parents and brethren. He doesn't have anything to live for, and yet his life is "affirmed" in the family Creed where the God he is supposed to worship is "All in All."

Take that, mix it up with drugs and intoxicants, genocide, but at the same time a lot of free money floating around, and,.... on his death do you expect Jesus to tell him "It is Okay, only God can judge you?"

Or is it rather that the true essence of evil does not lie in the "will" at all. Evil is simply eminently offensive to God.

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We are all "loved."

Just, we aren't all of us "lov-able."