Apart from having evil in this world, God also allow his creatures to exercise the their free will and freely choose the bad over good. This means that he allows us to freely love him, or choose to against him. Even though evil is a bad result of human free will, the goodness of free will is much greater than the badness of evil. Thus, God creates a world with both free will and evil in it, providing the fact that he is actually able to create a world with good creatures only. Such theodicy is called free will theodicy, which God creates a world with both free will and evil in it.
Because God is an absolutely perfect being: omnipotent, omniscient, and completely good morally, someone may suggest that God can create a world with …show more content…
Without free will, creatures will become robots that are not able to possess emotions and feelings. They will not truly know the meanings of life. If God creates free creatures with no weaknesses or dark side, they are no longer having free will because they are forced to choose goodness. Therefore, God creates free creatures without determining them to do what is right. He knows that these creatures are not outstandingly free after all if he does so. On top of that, they actually are not doing things that are right. Because of God’s character, he cannot leave his free creatures performing evil all the time, and thus excising the possibility of moral good is a way for God to forestall the occurrence of moral