 However, the mutability of the creatures’ condition means that they may change for the worse. There is no inevitability about this, since moral corruption in creatures results from either a deliberate act of will or indifference of will (a failure to pursue the good) (Lascano 2018). The moral degeneration of the creature is mitigated by the fact that no creature can become so corrupt as to lose its God-given goodness entirely. (A creature utterly lacking in goodness would be so unlike God that it could not exist). The residual goodness of the creature holds out the possibility of recovery from its degenerate state. To understand how this comes about, let us recall, first, that the change in creatures is physical as well as moral, such that as a creature degenerates, it becomes more corporeal (“hardened”). Furthermore, just as a creature can never become utterly evil, so it can never be reduced to mere corporeality, because that would be a lifeless condition, so unlike to God as not to exist.