including how things would be if they weren’t good. For example, I have never murdered anyone, but that doesn’t mean I don’t know what murder is. That God should allow evil, as He obviously does, does not mean that He is evil. His allowing the possibility of evil is, I believe, necessary; at least for this time in human history. Let me explain. God created us as choice- makers with free wills so we would not be robots. At stake was whether we would be able to freely love, versus be programmed robots that had to love God because we had no other choice. For example, if I said, “I’ll tak e you out for lunch, and you can have whatever you want. You can have pizza, pizza, or pizza. What would you like?” That would be no choice. In like manner, God could have said, “I’ll give you a choice: you can love Me … or you can love Me … or you can love Me.” Again, that would be no choice. For real love and goodness to exist, without us merely being robots, there had to
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