The divine paradox is what Plato’s Socrates resolves by arguing that good cannot have any vice. Socrates resolves the paradox of good and evil residing in creation by separating good and evil as being separate domains. This separation will, through the centuries, evolve into Western Civilization’s Christianity with God and His angles (good) and Satan and his demons (evil). (Remember that time is not real but a human construct.) This is the paradox of good and evil being woven into the fabric of the creation, the fabric of the universe. This is the paradox that enters human consciousness when contemplating God’s, The Father-Creator’s, first act of creation, the exploding of the Big Bang, the reality encompassing the creation of good and evil.
Hinduism resolves the paradox of creative forces and destructive forces by uniting these apparent opposites into one god, Shiva, the god of creation and the god of destruction. As I have written before,** this is the dividing premise that differentiates the West from the East. This reflection, however, is not about individual humans. I place the opposing positions of the negatives and the positives within the consciousness of the UCFC, The Father-Creator. The paradox has gained magnitude as The Divine Paradox.
**See: “How the Individual Is Critical” of Deathbed Reflections
It is easily resolved in the same manner that the creation of the too-heavy-for-god-to-lift rock. Free will resolves the paradox. The UCFC, the Holy Spirit, chooses to be creative as opposed to being destructive. The Holy Spirit, the UCFC, evolved into a condition of being in agápē love. It must be remembered that agápē love is about nurturing the other to be the best that can be attained; but, agápē love is also about firm, consistently applied, appropriate accountability. Hence, pain and suffering is not about revenge. Pain and suffering is about the natural accountability, the natural justice, woven throughout the UCFC’s creation. Natural consequences assure consistent application of appropriate accountability of choices made. The intent and purpose of natural consequences is to nurture the other, to inform the other. We, humans, must learn well to develop robust individual consciousnesses to avoid natural consequences of incorrect choices.
Being omniscient, the UCFC knows and understands everything about what is correct and what is incorrect. The UCFC understands why what is correct is correct and why what is incorrect is incorrect. This omniscience is the precursor of the UCFC’s wisdom that moves the UCFC’s free will to choose what is correct in all procedures, affairs, situations and circumstances, etcetera. The exercising of free will by the UCFC is not about obedience to a higher power because there is no higher power over the UCFC because the UCFC is all powerful. The UCFC exercises ITS free will not out of obedience but from the wisdom of knowing and understanding the beneficial and nurturing nature of what is correct over what is incorrect. Hence the shrinking of the dark side of the yin/yang and the overwhelming expansion of the light side of the yin/yang. However, the dark side is never obliterated because of the requirement of the condition of being omniscient. The nature of free will dictates that the UCFC always has the ability to do what is incorrect but, being omniscient and wise, the UCFC always chooses correctness because of the inherent nature of correct behavior.