Naive me, not knowing the texts, but isn't the
issue here the apparent
paradox between God's never willing evil and God's
creating human
beings with free will and, thus, introducing the
possibility of evil
into Creation?
One of the premises is that if God is omniscient,
omnipotent, and all good, then God has a desire to
eliminate all the evil from the world.
Christians seem to argue that the possibility of
evil (free will choosing evil) is necessary for
all the good things that come from free will (and
which morally outweigh them), such as salvation
and redemption. Therefore, it is not true that a
God would want to eliminate all evil from the world.
The roundabout nature of this claim made me call
it a narrative evasion.It also made me wonder
about the way evil could be quantified. How much
evil is necessary? If God allows evil to produce
the ultimate good, can God allow TOO MUCH evil?
And what would constitute TOO MUCH?
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