Anthony The Great. (№ 400344)

God is good, dispassionate and immutable. If someone, recognizing true that God does not change, is perplexed, however, as He is happy good, angry turns back, angry at sinners, and when they repent, is merciful to him; this I say then that God is not happy and is angry; for the joy and anger the essence of passion. It is absurd to think that the deity was good or evil because of human Affairs. God is good and only good is doing harm also does not harm anyone, being always the same; and we, when we are kind we enter into communion with God - the similarity with Him, and when you become angry, then separate from God's dissimilarity to Him. By living virtuously we are God's, and becoming angry, be rejected from It; and these things do not mean anything to anger had on us, but that our sins will not suffer God to Shine on us. If then prayers and blagotvoreniya snakeweed we permit sins, it cannot mean that God we have to please and It changed, but that through such actions and treatment of our God dwells in us Obrucheva evil again sodelyvaetsya we are able to taste the goodness of God; so that to say God turns away from evil, there is also something to say: the sun disappears from the deprived of sight.