John Behr cites Irenaeus in this regard: ‘Since he who saves always existed, it was necessary that those who would be saved should be created, so that he who saves should not exist in vain.’ Or, as DBH often quotes from Rom. 11:32, ‘He has consigned all to disobedience that he would show mercy to all.’ Evil is permitted to make manifest the superabundance of divine mercy. ‘Who sinned, this man or his parents? Neither, but that the glorious mercy of God may be shown, and that you and the one born blind might bask momentarily in the divine Pleroma...’
Thanks, so much! I've always, even if eisegetically, claimed this for my nontheodicy defense: "Who sinned, this man or his parents? Neither, but that the glorious mercy of God may be shown"
John Behr cites Irenaeus in this regard: ‘Since he who saves always existed, it was necessary that those who would be saved should be created, so that he who saves should not exist in vain.’ Or, as DBH often quotes from Rom. 11:32, ‘He has consigned all to disobedience that he would show mercy to all.’ Evil is permitted to make manifest the superabundance of divine mercy. ‘Who sinned, this man or his parents? Neither, but that the glorious mercy of God may be shown, and that you and the one born blind might bask momentarily in the divine Pleroma...’
Thanks, so much! I've always, even if eisegetically, claimed this for my nontheodicy defense: "Who sinned, this man or his parents? Neither, but that the glorious mercy of God may be shown"