Die heilige Lehre von der Wiederbringung aller Dinge aus dem Worte Gottes

13. If everything was created good by the one good GOD, and nothing else existed outside of God, how then could sin and evil emerge?

God indeed created everything good in the beginning, yet not in the highest perfection Vollkommenheit as it lies in God. Instead, he created according to the condition of the creatures and their capacity Faßlichkeit; the ability to receive or comprehend. According to his holy wisdom Weisheit, he also ordered everything so that his creatures served him willingly, and in such a will, they were able to fall or not to fall. However, the will of the angel was intended to be directed toward God at all times, to take strength and salvation from Him daily, and to honor its Creator for it. Because that will raised itself against the will of God and wanted to be something of its own, evil Böses arose in the creature. An angel became a devil Teufel, who subsequently also led man away from God. Thus he plunged himself and the entire creation into corruption and into vanity. Therefore, the origin of sin and evil is to be found in the self-will that is in the creatures. This will divided itself from the One and made a No out of a Yes. But when the will of the rational creatures enters again into God's holy will through Christ, it is rescued again from sin and from evil. This will happen when God completes all his works and the play

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