Friends, allow me to share what I believe is a coherent way to read Scripture —yet I do not present this as dogma. I hold to the principle of “not going beyond what is written” (1 Cor 4:6). What follows is simply my understanding, the interpretation that seems to me most faithful to the biblical pattern. I respect the venerable Nicene tradition, but I cannot impose a word like homoousios which the apostles themselves never used. What I see, rather, is that the key thread running from Genesis to Revelation is the mystery of kenosis —self-emptying love.
THE INTEGRAL MODEL OF EVIL AND THE HOPE OF REDEMPTION
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Introduction
Evil cannot be understood without its opposite: kenosis.
God is love, but more than that: He is love that empties itself.
In creation, He withdrew to let exist what was not Himself.
In Christ, He became nothing to give us everything.
And we, imitators of Christ, are called to the same:
to be light that separates darkness, just as in the beginning.
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Kenosis is not present in every narrative, but it is found in the teaching texts that reveal God’s plan. These illuminate all of Scripture and show the universal pattern of self-emptying that gives life.
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1. Creation: the first kenotic act
God, infinite fullness, withdrew to make space for the cosmos.
That withdrawal was giving, donation.
When He said “Let there be light,” He set the eternal pattern:
separating light from darkness.
This is also our calling: to discern, to illuminate, to fertilize what is true.
---
2. The wound in heaven
Evil did not begin on earth.
It was born in the heart of Lucifer, a beautiful and strong creature.
Its origin was not weakness, but jealousy against kenosis.
He refused to imitate God in His self-giving,
choosing instead to seize His place of authority.
From “I will serve” he turned to “I will not serve.”
That was the first act of violence.
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3. Impossible vengeance
Satan cannot harm God.
So he seeks revenge against what God loves most: His image in man.
He tempted humanity to repeat his rebellion:
“You will be like gods” → the echo of his own desire.
Thus what began in heaven through jealousy repeats on earth as violence.
---
4. Eden: the transmission of the wound
The forbidden fruit was not a mere object:
it was the invitation to self-deification,
to usurp the authority of God.
Eve internalized the lie; Adam did not trust God:
distrust of God, rupture with one’s neighbor, hostility toward creation.
What was kenosis became ego.
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5. The triple concupiscence
The angelic poison became human inheritance (1 Jn 2:16):
Lust of the eyes → greed, appropriation, exploitation.
Lust of the flesh → pleasure turned into an absolute end.
Pride of life → the inflated self demanding worship.
This is how evil still operates in every heart.
---
6. The micro-Eden of every day
Every decision repeats the same formula (James 1:14–15):
Attraction → Consent → Action → Consequence.
Passions are good or neutral energy,
but the ego perverts them:
Anger → cruelty.
Desire → lust.
Fear → cowardice.
---
7. Vices: perverted habits
Vice is a passion disordered and fixed by the ego.
Matter is good, but twisted by repetition.
Pride is the root vice:
the habit of inflating the self until it suffocates others.
---
7 bis. Summary map
The drama of evil can be summarized like this:
Divine kenosis → creation and donation.
Angelic jealousy → “I will not serve.”
Inner violence → the first rupture.
Vengeance against man → temptation in Eden.
Triple concupiscence → eyes, flesh, pride.
Vices and structures → collective chains.
Cosmic futility → universal groaning.
Kenosis of Christ → cross and resurrection.
Final consummation → all handed over to the Father.
In one line: Jealousy → Violence → Transmitted wound → Kenosis as the only cure.
---
8. Escalation: from act to structure
Evil escalates in a chain:
sin → habit → vice → ideology → structure.
This is how the “deep things of Satan” arise (Rev 2:24).
Ancient: idolatries of Baal and Moloch.
Modern: Marxism, reductive scientism, absolute individualism, the cult of progress without ethics.
Always the same mechanism: a partial truth absolutized becomes a totalitarian lie.
---
9. The pain of the world: cosmic futility
Romans 8:20: creation was subjected to mataiótēs (futility).
Not all suffering is direct guilt:
· Accidents.
· Sickness, old age, death.
· Natural disasters.
· Sincere ignorance.
It is the echo of a wounded cosmos,
groaning for redemption.
---
10. Giants, floods, and historical siftings
Gen 6:4: “in those days, and also afterward.”
Hybrid corruption returned in cycles.
Bible, myths, and geology converge:
cataclysms, preserved remnants, a just lineage.
Humanity was sifted multiple times, until Christ arrived.
---
11. The covenant of the bow
The rainbow is both limit and promise.
God will not allow total destruction.
It is mercy, but also warning:
the next purification will be by fire (2 Pet 3:7).
---
12. Christ: kenosis in history
If creation was the kenosis of the Father,
the incarnation was the kenosis of the Son.
From Bethlehem to Golgotha: pure self-giving.
The Cross was extreme emptying: dying to give life.
The resurrection declared that kenosis conquers ego.
---
13. Light: human vocation
To imitate Christ is to live kenosis:
emptying the ego,
loving through service,
being light that separates darkness.
This is our destiny: to prolong creation and the cross in daily life.
---
14. Providence and felix culpa
Evil is permitted for a greater good.
The cross concentrated all evil and defeated it (Col 2:15).
The resurrection showed that absurdity is not the end.
Even guilt becomes a path toward higher redemption.
---
14 bis. Kenotic theodicy
The mystery of evil is inseparable from the mystery of freedom.
God could have created a world without the possibility of rebellion, but then there would be no authentic love.
Love exists only where there is freedom, and freedom implies risk.
God is not the author of evil: He is the author of freedom that makes love possible.
Why does He not immediately stop all evil?
Because divine kenosis respects creaturely freedom to the extreme.
Instead of annulling freedom, God chooses to redeem evil from within:
He allows evil to express itself, but limits it (“thus far you shall come”).
He turns it into an occasion for greater good (felix culpa).
He conquers it not by imposition, but by an overabundance of love (Cross and Resurrection).
“We know that God causes all things to work together for good to those who love Him” (Rom 8:28).
Even evil, when conquered by the cross, is transformed into something greater and more beautiful within the divine plan.
In simple terms:
Evil exists because there is freedom.
Freedom exists because there is love.
And love reaches its fullness in kenosis: giving oneself even in the face of evil.
---
15. Emotional evolution: the practical path
The battle is also interior.
Imaginary Experiments (EI-8) train the will:
1. Rehearse difficult scenarios.
2. Record the chosen response.
3. Reproduce it in real life.
This cuts the chain of evil at its beginning.
---
16. Marxism and cultural struggles
Marxism absolutizes a partial truth (justice)
and turns it into oppression and class hatred.
This is the mark of evil: fragments of truth forged into chains.
The ultimate criterion is always the fruits.
---
16 bis. Modern rebellions: AI and transhumanism
Today Eden’s echo is heard in new promises:
“You will be like gods” → now through technology.
Posthumanism.
Transhumanism.
AI without ethics.
The temptation is the same:
self-deification without kenosis, power without service.
The danger is not science, but the ego that uses it as an idol.
Christ showed that true fullness is not found in “surpassing ourselves,”
but in giving ourselves.
---
17. Science, fossils, and faith
Faith does not fear science.
Dinosaurs and fossils show kenotic extinctions:
a dying that opened the way for richer forms of life.
Birds that amaze us in variety,
with bright colors and dazzling songs.
Creation remains good, though subjected to futility.
---
18. Development and pragmatism
Redemption is not escape,
it is real transformation.
Principle: virtue + realism + measurable fruit.
A kenotic economy: producing without plunder, serving without idolatry.
Fruits: dignified employment, upward education, concrete justice.
---
19. Eschatology and consummation
“The last enemy to be destroyed is death” (1 Cor 15:26).
In the end, Christ will hand the Kingdom over to the Father (1 Cor 15:28).
“Kenosis is not only what God did; it is what God is.
The Father gives, the Son surrenders, and the Spirit pours this gift into us.
Therefore, the universe is not sustained by brute force, but by a love that ceaselessly empties itself.”
And this will be the final kenosis:
the Son subjecting Himself to the Father,
so that God may be all in all.
---
Conclusion
Creation was the kenosis of the Father.
The cross was the kenosis of the Son.
The consummation will be the final kenosis: all handed over to the Father.
Evil imitates the rebellion of Satan.
Kenosis imitates the Creator.
And only kenosis has the last word: life.
---
Final lapidary phrases
“God emptied Himself in creation.
Christ emptied Himself on the cross.
In the end, Christ will hand His Kingdom to the Father,
so that God may be all in all.
That is the triumph of kenosis over ego,
of light over darkness,
of life over evil.”
“Against the Non serviam that originates and propagates evil,
stands the Fiat of creation and the He gave up His spirit of the cross,
revealing that the final verb of history,
written by the definitive Amen of the resurrection,
is All is gift.”
“The universe is written in kenotic language.
Creation speaks it, the cross shouts it,
and the consummation will sing it for all eternity.
Our only task is to learn to read it
and, in reading, learn to love it.”
Christ and His followers are and will be free.
And all creation will sing again in praise,
as final and sacred vindication of the Father.
---
Counterpoint: non-Christian perspectives
Camus: evil as absurdity without redemption.
Nietzsche: a cultural invention to dominate.
Freud: death drive within the psyche.
Arendt: the banality of evil through blind obedience.
Stoics: vices as errors of judgment, correctable by reason.
All these perspectives see fragments,
but none offers a definitive way out.
Christianity reveals:
Evil is rebellion against kenosis.
The only cure is the self-emptying that conquers ego.
THE INTEGRAL MODEL OF EVIL AND THE HOPE OF REDEMPTION---
Introduction
Evil cannot be understood without its opposite: kenosis.
God is love, but more than that: He is love that empties itself.
In creation, He withdrew to let exist what was not Himself.
In Christ, He became nothing to give us everything.
And we, imitators of Christ, are called to the same:
to be light that separates darkness, just as in the beginning.>
Kenosis is not present in every narrative, but it is found in the teaching texts that reveal God’s plan. These illuminate all of Scripture and show the universal pattern of self-emptying that gives life.---
1. Creation: the first kenotic act
God, infinite fullness, withdrew to make space for the cosmos.
That withdrawal was giving, donation.
When He said “Let there be light,” He set the eternal pattern:
separating light from darkness.This is also our calling: to discern, to illuminate, to fertilize what is true.
---
2. The wound in heaven
Evil did not begin on earth.
It was born in the heart of Lucifer, a beautiful and strong creature.
Its origin was not weakness, but jealousy against kenosis.
He refused to imitate God in His self-giving,
choosing instead to seize His place of authority.
From “I will serve” he turned to “I will not serve.”
That was the first act of violence.---
3. Impossible vengeance
Satan cannot harm God.
So he seeks revenge against what God loves most: His image in man.
He tempted humanity to repeat his rebellion:
“You will be like gods” → the echo of his own desire.
Thus what began in heaven through jealousy repeats on earth as violence.
---
4. Eden: the transmission of the wound
The forbidden fruit was not a mere object:
it was the invitation to self-deification,
to usurp the authority of God.
Eve internalized the lie; Adam did not trust God:
distrust of God, rupture with one’s neighbor, hostility toward creation.What was kenosis became ego.
---
5. The triple concupiscence
The angelic poison became human inheritance (1 Jn 2:16):
Lust of the eyes → greed, appropriation, exploitation. Lust of the flesh → pleasure turned into an absolute end. Pride of life → the inflated self demanding worship. This is how evil still operates in every heart.---
6. The micro-Eden of every day
Every decision repeats the same formula (James 1:14–15):
Attraction → Consent → Action → Consequence.
Passions are good or neutral energy,
but the ego perverts them:
Anger → cruelty.
Desire → lust.
Fear → cowardice.
---
7. Vices: perverted habits
Vice is a passion disordered and fixed by the ego.Matter is good, but twisted by repetition.
Pride is the root vice:
the habit of inflating the self until it suffocates others.
---
7 bis. Summary map
The drama of evil can be summarized like this:
Divine kenosis → creation and donation.
Angelic jealousy → “I will not serve.”
Inner violence → the first rupture.
Vengeance against man → temptation in Eden.
Triple concupiscence → eyes, flesh, pride.
Vices and structures → collective chains.
Cosmic futility → universal groaning.
Kenosis of Christ → cross and resurrection.
Final consummation → all handed over to the Father.
In one line: Jealousy → Violence → Transmitted wound → Kenosis as the only cure.---
8. Escalation: from act to structure
Evil escalates in a chain:
sin → habit → vice → ideology → structure.
This is how the “deep things of Satan” arise (Rev 2:24).
Ancient: idolatries of Baal and Moloch.
Modern: Marxism, reductive scientism, absolute individualism, the cult of progress without ethics.
Always the same mechanism: a partial truth absolutized becomes a totalitarian lie.---
9. The pain of the world: cosmic futility
Romans 8:20: creation was subjected to mataiótēs (futility).
Not all suffering is direct guilt:
· Accidents.
· Sickness, old age, death.
· Natural disasters.
· Sincere ignorance.
It is the echo of a wounded cosmos,
groaning for redemption.
---
10. Giants, floods, and historical siftings
Gen 6:4: “in those days, and also afterward.”
Hybrid corruption returned in cycles.
Bible, myths, and geology converge:
cataclysms, preserved remnants, a just lineage.
Humanity was sifted multiple times, until Christ arrived.---
11. The covenant of the bow
The rainbow is both limit and promise.
God will not allow total destruction.
It is mercy, but also warning:
the next purification will be by fire (2 Pet 3:7).---
12. Christ: kenosis in history
If creation was the kenosis of the Father,
the incarnation was the kenosis of the Son.
From Bethlehem to Golgotha: pure self-giving.
The Cross was extreme emptying: dying to give life.
The resurrection declared that kenosis conquers ego.---
13. Light: human vocation
To imitate Christ is to live kenosis:
emptying the ego,
loving through service,
being light that separates darkness.
This is our destiny: to prolong creation and the cross in daily life.
---
14. Providence and felix culpa
Evil is permitted for a greater good.
The cross concentrated all evil and defeated it (Col 2:15).
The resurrection showed that absurdity is not the end.
Even guilt becomes a path toward higher redemption.---
14 bis. Kenotic theodicy
The mystery of evil is inseparable from the mystery of freedom.
God could have created a world without the possibility of rebellion, but then there would be no authentic love.
Love exists only where there is freedom, and freedom implies risk.
God is not the author of evil: He is the author of freedom that makes love possible.Why does He not immediately stop all evil?
Because divine kenosis respects creaturely freedom to the extreme.
Instead of annulling freedom, God chooses to redeem evil from within:
He allows evil to express itself, but limits it (“thus far you shall come”).
He turns it into an occasion for greater good (felix culpa).
He conquers it not by imposition, but by an overabundance of love (Cross and Resurrection).
“We know that God causes all things to work together for good to those who love Him” (Rom 8:28).Even evil, when conquered by the cross, is transformed into something greater and more beautiful within the divine plan.
In simple terms:Evil exists because there is freedom.
Freedom exists because there is love.
And love reaches its fullness in kenosis: giving oneself even in the face of evil.
---
15. Emotional evolution: the practical path
The battle is also interior.
Imaginary Experiments (EI-8) train the will:
1. Rehearse difficult scenarios.
2. Record the chosen response.
3. Reproduce it in real life.
This cuts the chain of evil at its beginning.---
16. Marxism and cultural struggles
Marxism absolutizes a partial truth (justice)
and turns it into oppression and class hatred.
This is the mark of evil: fragments of truth forged into chains.
The ultimate criterion is always the fruits.---
16 bis. Modern rebellions: AI and transhumanism
Today Eden’s echo is heard in new promises:
“You will be like gods” → now through technology.
Posthumanism.
Transhumanism.
AI without ethics.
The temptation is the same:
self-deification without kenosis, power without service.The danger is not science, but the ego that uses it as an idol.
Christ showed that true fullness is not found in “surpassing ourselves,”
but in giving ourselves.
---
17. Science, fossils, and faith
Faith does not fear science.
Dinosaurs and fossils show kenotic extinctions:
a dying that opened the way for richer forms of life.
Birds that amaze us in variety,
with bright colors and dazzling songs.
Creation remains good, though subjected to futility.---
18. Development and pragmatism
Redemption is not escape,
it is real transformation.
Principle: virtue + realism + measurable fruit.
A kenotic economy: producing without plunder, serving without idolatry.
Fruits: dignified employment, upward education, concrete justice.---
19. Eschatology and consummation
“The last enemy to be destroyed is death” (1 Cor 15:26).
In the end, Christ will hand the Kingdom over to the Father (1 Cor 15:28).
“Kenosis is not only what God did; it is what God is.The Father gives, the Son surrenders, and the Spirit pours this gift into us.
Therefore, the universe is not sustained by brute force, but by a love that ceaselessly empties itself.”
And this will be the final kenosis:
the Son subjecting Himself to the Father,
so that God may be all in all.
---
Conclusion
Creation was the kenosis of the Father.
The cross was the kenosis of the Son.
The consummation will be the final kenosis: all handed over to the Father.
Evil imitates the rebellion of Satan. Kenosis imitates the Creator.And only kenosis has the last word: life.
---
Final lapidary phrases
“God emptied Himself in creation.
Christ emptied Himself on the cross.
In the end, Christ will hand His Kingdom to the Father,
so that God may be all in all.
That is the triumph of kenosis over ego,
of light over darkness,
of life over evil.”
“Against the Non serviam that originates and propagates evil,
stands the Fiat of creation and the He gave up His spirit of the cross,
revealing that the final verb of history,
written by the definitive Amen of the resurrection,
is All is gift.”
“The universe is written in kenotic language.
Creation speaks it, the cross shouts it,
and the consummation will sing it for all eternity.
Our only task is to learn to read it
and, in reading, learn to love it.”
Christ and His followers are and will be free.And all creation will sing again in praise,
as final and sacred vindication of the Father.
---
Counterpoint: non-Christian perspectives
Camus: evil as absurdity without redemption.
Nietzsche: a cultural invention to dominate.
Freud: death drive within the psyche.
Arendt: the banality of evil through blind obedience.
Stoics: vices as errors of judgment, correctable by reason.
All these perspectives see fragments,but none offers a definitive way out.
Christianity reveals:
Evil is rebellion against kenosis.
The only cure is the self-emptying that conquers ego.
My Confession of Faith (with Scripture)
Yes. Humanity fell in Adam, but Jesus Christ was never a sinner.
“Through one man sin entered the world, and death through sin” (Romans 5:12).
