The fourteenth article.
A good man ought so to conform his will to the divine will that he should will
whatever God wills. Since God in some way wills for me to have sinned, Ι
should not will that Ι
had not committed sins; and this is true penitence.
The fifteenth article.
If a man had committed a thousand mortal sins, if such a man were rightly
disposed he ought not to will that he had not committed them.
Maybe the Pope saw in these
articles an encouragement of moral relativism and something absurd: how could
God ever will for us to have sinned, when sin is exactly a deviation from His
will?
St. Dionysius writes that
“God knows evil as good, and to Him the causes of the evil deeds are powers that
make good”.[1]
In the book of Isaias we listen to God himself saying that “I make peace and
build disasters – it is me, the Lord and God, who does all these”.[2]St. Symeon the New
Theologian writes that
“whoever, through the adversities follows the road of the One life, does not
at all prefer one situation from another”.[3]
