Balthasar's dissatisfaction with the privation theory of sin leads him to posit a real, ontological existence for sin, contrary to Augustine, Thomas , the implications of the Catechism and almost all of ancient and medieval Catholic tradition. Sin becomes an ontological reality by a sort of negative creation, in which man, by the passion and willfulness that he puts into sinning, turns sin into a positive reality. Balthasar says: "It is possible to distinguish between the sin and the sinner...Because of the energy that man has invested in it, sin is a reality, it is not 'nothing .'" (Theo-Drama, vol. V, pp. 266, 314)... ... Balthasar makes the shocking statement that the Incarnation is "suspended" while Jesus is in the tomb : " Holy Saturday is thus a kind of suspension, as it were, of the Incarnation , whose result is given back to the hands of the Father and which the Father will renew and definitively confirm by the Easter Resurrection" ...
