Claim. The same act can be good or evil depending on whose purpose it serves (God’s or Satan’s). Good and evil are discerned not by the outward form of an act but by the fruits it bears under its directing purpose. Even desire — often considered sinful — is God-given and necessary for joy; only its purpose-direction determines its valence.
Elaboration. Per 4.3. Good and Evil Seen from the Viewpoint of Purpose: had Adam and Eve formed a God-centered four-position foundation, they would have built a good world; loving each other “with a purpose contrary to God’s intentions” produced an evil world. The same act-form (conjugal love) yielded opposite fruits because the purpose differed.
The desire-rehabilitation move: “Desire, which people often consider sinful, is actually God-given. Joy is the purpose of creation, and joy can only be attained when desire is fulfilled. If we had no desire, we could never experience joy. If we had no desire, we would not have any aspiration to receive God’s love, to live, to perform good deeds, or to improve ourselves. Without desire, therefore, neither God’s purpose of creation nor the providence of restoration could be fulfilled.”
Therefore “desires, being part of our God-given nature, are good when they bear fruit for the purpose of God’s Will, or are evil when they bear fruit for the purpose of Satan’s will.” The same logic licenses the restoration reading: the present evil world is restorable to goodness by changing its direction and purpose — not by destroying its substance.
This atomic refines Ch 1’s dp-good-and-evil-defined-by-four-position-alignment from a structural definition (who-centers-the-4PF) to a fruit-test heuristic for actual discernment in practice.
See also. dp-standard-of-goodness-is-relative-during-restoration, dp-good-and-evil-spirits-discerned-by-fruits-over-time