a different problem, or a different riddle, from the origin of being. We can never assign this “reality” of sin, in any perspicuous sense, to the goodness of God’s creation. It stands to reason that exactly at this point the Church has waged a perpetual warfare against any semblance of heresy. Her polemic has been necessary and has had far-reaching consequences for the whole issue of the origin of sin. The question of sin’s origin has a qualitatively different character from the question of any other