In his theodicy, to say something is evil is to say that it lacks goodness which means that it could not be part of God's creation, because God's creation lacked nothing.
These are qualities she has, not qualities she lacks, and they are positively bad and not merely lacking in goodness (Calder 2007a; Kane 1980. See Anglin and Goetz 1982 for a reply to these objections).
The third point is that while human being and Buddha stand thus as thoroughgoing opposites the being filled with afflicting passions and lacking any goodness that might lead toward enlightenment, on the one hand, and the Buddha freely exerting the power of wisdom-compassion, on the other deep mind arises as a unitary awareness out of the interaction of being and Buddha.
Jeremiah 17:9 "The heart [the core being] is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked; who can know it?" Recognize how bad (lacking real goodness) each of us is!
It seems clear that its meaning is such that if God were to choose to create less than the best it would logically follow that he is lacking in wisdom, goodness or power.
In fact, it seems reasonable to suppose that the first act (sadistic torture) indicates an evil will while the second act (telling the truth for self-interest) indicates a will that is merely lacking in moral goodness.
Sequins are mites of goodness lacking in the eyes.
For he clearly holds that from the fact that a being does less good than it could it logically follows that the being in question is lacking in wisdom or goodness.
On the contrary, since a divinely created world is naturally oriented toward the good, any lack of goodness will be felt as painful, wrong and urgently in need of repair.
They may superficially feel good about themselves, but they feel they lack any intrinsic goodness, and that the only way others can value them is through superficial notoriety or accomplishments.
Indeed, Leibniz says that "to do less good than one could is to be lacking in wisdom or in goodness", that the most perfect understanding "cannot fail to act in the most perfect way, and consequently to choose the best" (1710, 201).
