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Jesus said:
 
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*"My brother, God is love. Therefore he must be good. His goodness is so great and real that it cannot contain the small and unreal things of evil. God is so positively good that there is absolutely no place in him for negative evil. Evil is the immature choosing and the unthinking misstep of those who are resistant to goodness, rejecting of beauty, and disloyal to truth. Evil is the misadaptation of immaturity or the disruptive and distorting influence of ignorance. Evil is the inevitable darkness that follows upon the heels of the unwise rejection of light. Evil is that which is dark and untrue, and when consciously embraced and willfully endorsed, becomes sin. Your Father in heaven, by endowing you with the power to choose between truth and error, created the potential negative of the positive way of light and life. But such errors of evil are really nonexistent until such a time as an intelligent creature wills their existence by mischoosing the way of life. Then are such evils later exalted into sin by the knowing and deliberate choice of such a willful and rebellious creature. This is why our Father in heaven permits the good and the evil to go along together until the end of life, just as nature allows the wheat and the tares to grow side by side until the harvest."
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*"My brother, God is love. Therefore he must be good. His goodness is so great and real that it cannot contain the small and unreal things of evil. God is so positively good that there is absolutely no place in him for negative evil. Evil is the immature choosing and the unthinking misstep of those who are resistant to goodness, rejecting of beauty, and disloyal to truth. Evil is the misadaptation of immaturity or the disruptive and distorting influence of ignorance. Evil is the inevitable darkness that follows upon the heels of the unwise rejection of light. Evil is that which is dark and untrue, and when consciously embraced and willfully endorsed, becomes sin. Your Father in heaven, by endowing you with the power to choose between truth and error, created the potential negative of the positive way of light and life. But such errors of evil are really nonexistent until such a time as an intelligent creature wills their existence by mischoosing the way of life. Then are such evils later exalted into sin by the knowing and deliberate choice of such a willful and rebellious creature. This is why our Father in heaven permits [[the good and the evil]] to go along together until the end of life, just as nature allows the wheat and the tares to grow side by side until the harvest."
    
====At Caesarea====
 
====At Caesarea====
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