On Free Will
The sin, both of men and of angels, was rendered possible by the fact that God gave them free will: this surrendering a portion of His omnipotence (it is again a deathlike or descending movement) because He saw that from a world of free creatures, even though they fell, He could work out (and this is the re-ascent) a deeper happiness and a fuller splendor than any world of automata would admit.
From Miracles
Compiled in Words to Live By
Compiled in Words to Live By
Miracles: A Preliminary Study. Copyright 1947 C. S. Lewis Pte. Ltd. Copyright renewed © 1947 C. S. Lewis Pte. Ltd. Revised 1960, restored 1996 C. S. Lewis Pte. Ltd. All rights reserved. Used with permission of HarperCollins Publishers. Words to Live By: A Guide for the Merely Christian. Copyright © 2007 by C. S. Lewis Pte. Ltd. All rights reserved. Used with permission of HarperCollins Publishers.
Free will gives us the ability to choose. We can choose between red or blue, sweet or sour, happy or sad and yes, good or bad. Free will would be of no value if there were no choices to make. So, for free will to matter, we must have choices; between red and blue and yes, good and bad. This is just one answer as to why God allows bad to exist. It must be so if we are to be creatures of divine nature endowed with free will.
Free to choose,
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