Phage: there is a general difficulty here with how you are interpreting my post. And when I say that God created us "such that our end is him", I don't mean that there's any sort of necessary progression towards this end. I'm using Aristotelian language here, and so by 'end', I mean an end of the teleological sort. Because we have a rational nature, and not merely an animal or vegatative nature, we have a choice in the matter of whether or not we seek our end. Stones gotta fall; lions gotta hunt; but we don't have to be virtuous people. So I fully agree with your last statement.
Re: good, evil, and natural disasters. There are, I guess I want to say, different levels of complexity of the goodness and evilness of things. On a very simple level, pleasure is good, power is good, being is good. But since in the actual world, these things are tied up in all sorts of other things, some of them not good, its overly simplistic to say simplicter 'power is good'. So to some extent, I do want to say that pleasure is good. Now, natural disasters are not good or evil in themselves; this is equivalent to saying they are not inherently good or evil. But some of their effects are bad. I don't really see how what I said in my above post is any different from what we've been saying.
Re: Autochron and the less good. Your statement, "God created something less good than Himself" can be read in two ways, one of which is false, the other of which is true. On the ontological scale, yes, God created something less good than himself. Even if we were perfect, we'd still be less good than God. But on the moral scale, we were created just as good as God. I'm not sure how either the created ontological gap or the subsequent moral gap makes God the author of evil.
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"Die Deutschen meinen, daß die Kraft sich in Härte und Grausamkeit offenbaren müsse, sie unterwerfen sich dann gerne und mit Bewunderung:[...]. Daß es Kraft giebt in der Milde und Stille, das glauben sie nicht leicht."
"The Germans believe that power must reveal itself in hardness and cruelty and then submit themselves gladly and with admiration[...]. They do not believe readily that there is power in meekness and calm."
-- Friedrich Nietzsche
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