Philosophers have looked for ways to explain God's existence for centuries. One such argument that the believer must justify in order to maintain the possibility of God's existence is the problem of evil. In this paper I will argue God has a good reason to allow evil. Let me clarify some of the terms I will be using. First, in reference to "free will" I mean, people making decisions completely unaltered by God forcing, knowing …
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…many years to come. God doesn't just throw us into of the world with only the black and white, either/or choice between good and evil. Evil choices, have the ripple effect of good, even distantly related. The allowed choice of good or evil is result of our powers of free will, which when chosen in favor of good, leads to many good things. That is the reason that God allows evil into the world