Problems of the Lucifer Rebellion

54:0.1Evo­lu­tion­ary man finds it dif­fi­cult fully to com­pre­hend the sig­nif­i­cance and to grasp the mean­ings of evil, er­ror, sin, and in­iq­uity. Man is slow to per­ceive that con­trastive per­fec­tion and im­per­fec­tion pro­duce po­ten­tial evil; that con­flict­ing truth and false­hood cre­ate con­fus­ing er­ror; that the di­vine en­dow­ment of free­will choice even­tu­ates in the di­ver­gent realms of sin and righ­teous­ness; that the per­sis­tent pur­suit of di­vin­ity leads to the king­dom of God as con­trasted with its con­tin­u­ous re­jec­tion, which leads to the do­mains of in­iq­uity.

54:0.2The Gods nei­ther cre­ate evil nor per­mit sin and re­bel­lion. Po­ten­tial evil is time-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 very con­flict­ing pres­ence of truth and un­truth, fact and false­hood, con­sti­tutes the po­ten­tial­ity of er­ror. The de­lib­er­ate choice of evil con­sti­tutes sin; the will­ful re­jec­tion of truth is er­ror; the per­sis­tent pur­suit of sin and er­ror is in­iq­uity.