Sayers: evil

Tuesday, May 9, 2017
Meditation:
    The LORD saw how great man’s wickedness on the earth had become, and that every inclination of the thoughts of his heart was only evil all the time. The LORD was grieved that he had made man on the earth, and his heart was filled with pain. So the LORD said, “I will wipe mankind, whom I have created, from the face of the earth—men and animals, and creatures that move along the ground, and birds of the air—for I am grieved that I have made them.” But Noah found favor in the eyes of the LORD.
    —Genesis 6:5-8 (NIV)
Quotation:
    Evil is the soul’s choice of the not-God. The corollary is that damnation, or hell, is the permanent choice of the not-God. God does not (in the monstrous old-fashioned phrase) “send” anybody to hell; hell is that state of the soul in which its choice becomes obdurate and fixed; the punishment (so to call it) of that soul is to remain eternally in that State which it has chosen.
    ... Dorothy Leigh Sayers (1893-1957), The Poetry of Search and the Poetry of Statement, London: Golanz, 1963, p. 230 (see the book)
    See also Gen. 6:5-8; Deut. 30:19; Ps. 1:6; 37:20; Pr. 16:4
Quiet time reflection:
    Lord, You have sent Your salvation to Your dying people. CQOD    Blog    email    RSS
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