For us to be humans we need to have free will, and in order to have free will we need evil in our world. The importance of free will is to test humans if they are truly good and deserve to go to heaven which would be impossible to test if there was no evil. Evil must exist in our world to allow us to be humans. This argument states that God allows evil to exist in our world and has the power to stop it if he chooses to do so. The counter argument is that God can make free will possible while still eliminating evil. Humans are still able to freely choose between good choices only, but many argue that free will is only good if we have the choice to do bad. Free will is pointless if the only options are
For us to be humans we need to have free will, and in order to have free will we need evil in our world. The importance of free will is to test humans if they are truly good and deserve to go to heaven which would be impossible to test if there was no evil. Evil must exist in our world to allow us to be humans. This argument states that God allows evil to exist in our world and has the power to stop it if he chooses to do so. The counter argument is that God can make free will possible while still eliminating evil. Humans are still able to freely choose between good choices only, but many argue that free will is only good if we have the choice to do bad. Free will is pointless if the only options are