The answer
Precisely. Ever since the disobedience of Adam, evil found its way to all of humanity, becoming exacerbated and rampant from generation to generation, until the image of the righteous man became distorted (Eph. 4:24), and a disease named “evil” overtook man. Many human efforts-i.e. police, judiciary, prisons, hospitals-were founded to cure that disease. However, the painful and lamentable result is that evil increased at the same rate as the reformative efforts, because evil is inherent in man, and is not merely external. This is why it cannot be extracted by material means.
His Holiness Pope Tawadros II
Pope Tawadros II, My Faith: A Series of Dialogues on the Creed (Coptic Orthodox Patriarchate, 2014), 61.
The page in the book (61)
