The bible explains that good and evil are mentalities, ways of thinking; this in practice means that good and evil are strategies, that is, ways of living and achieving goals; and this is important because having a strategy to achieve a goal is not a mental disorder.
When the will is subject to concupiscence (the disordered desires directed by the fantasy towards the apparent goods), the will errs, that is, it is subordinate to error. This is why those who plot evil are false people, they cannot perceive the truth. About the will and the concupiscence Thomas Aquinas explains: "The will is in the reason. Instead concupiscence, anger, desire and animosity in the irrational part of the soul". Q 82, Art 5.
Falsehood and truth are concepts prior to good and evil and lie in souls in the irrational part of the soul, on the other hand, good and evil as concepts come from the will, that is, from reason affected by falsehood or truth .
On the other hand, those who plan the good, being subject to the truth, do not err, do not practice error and reap the true goods for man: "Do they not err that plan evil? Those who plan good find loyalty and faithfulness.", Proverbs 14:22.
In practice, truth and falsehood lead us to two paths, a life full of sins or a life of righteousness ("Do to others what you would have them do to you", Matthew 7:12) . We see this in the psalm of the two ways, the psalm 1, this psalm will later be the basis of the teachings of the Sermon on the Mount announced by Jesus, in a brief exposition in the Gospel of Luke there are 4 beatitudes and 4 bad beatitudes according to which path we choose. In summary: "two mentalities (one benevolent and progressive another unjust and chaotic), two ways, two rewards (fruits of the spirit vs works of the flesh, Galatians 5:19-23)", this is the resume of the ethical and spiritual knowledge in the bible.
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