Free Will

Why is there evil in the world? That’s the age-old question. Why would an all-powerful, all-loving God allow evil to exist in any form in the world? That question is often presented as a paradox to disprove the existence of God because, as their argument goes, an all-powerful, all-loving God must not be all-powerful or all-loving if he allows evil to exist.

The reason why God allows the possibility of evil to exist is because he understands the importance, and the necessity of free will. If God were to remove evil from the world, he would have to remove free will from the world. If human beings were not allowed to choose evil over good, then they would not have free will, or self-determination. We would become auto-matrons. We would only be allowed to choose good which would not be a choice at all.

Everything that makes us human would be removed from us. If we lose our free will, we lose our ability to do bad things, we lose our capacity for goodness, we lose our morality because how good and moral we are is dependent on the choices we make. We would never call a robot that was programmed to perform certain tasks, good or bad, or moral or immoral because the robot has no choice in determining its own actions.