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 less degrees of good and truth are not perplexing. God being essential goodness, truth is the way His goodness acts. Good as a quality is that which is after the pattern of the goodness of God. Right is that which is in harmony with creative truth. Right is the way that mankind is created to live. It is the divine order in creation. It is the way God would do and that He would have us do that we may fulfil the purpose of our creation. Wrong is the way mankind is not created to live. It is the disorder that is, by the very nature of things, contrary to divine order. Wrong is disorder, and the way in which, if we live, the ends of creation will be defeated in us.

Good and evil with man originate in a similar way. Good is the effect of right living. Evil is the effect of wrong living. Good is the state of life that God has created us for. Evil is what He did not create us for. Goodness and