still lacked a clear explanation of the cause of evil. Yet whatever that cause might be, I did realize that I would have to look for it as something that would not compel me to believe that the unchangeable God was changeable, lest I myself become the very thing I was seeking. And so I sought it without anxiety, convinced that what was said by those whom I wholeheartedly repudiated was false; for I saw that in their search for the cause of evil they were themselves filled with evil: [Rom. 1:29] the evil of believing that your substance undergoes evil rather than that their own substance does
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