Rather, sin is the law of the universe, the cosmic condition of a world in evolution. In a universe this large, evil is statistically inevitable at every level of evolving life. The work of the unification of all things in Christ inevitably involves the pain of reconciliation. Teilhard called this the “creative pain” of unification, a necessary pain if we are to evolve and not regress to a lower state of existence that returns us to multiplicity or dissipated existence.
