“The only thing alien to the divine is evil. Nature is not evil.”69 As well, Maximus the Confessor avers, “Nothing created and given existence by God is evil,” and “Evil is not to be regarded as in the substance of creatures.”70 This needs to be stressed, for Orthodoxy teaches, as we have seen, that human nature is inclined toward God. Tainted and horribly corrupted by sin, human beings nevertheless still are, by their human nature, turned toward God; indeed, Gregory of Nyssa affirms, “To incline