Why is there all this evil in the world. C.S.Lewis has the answer
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I have mixed feelings about that. I often think God should put limits on evil; or at least make it easier for good people to defeat evil.
Then we wouldn't have free will. It would be a lie.
"You have the freedom to choose what you will do and what actions you will take... Unless of course you do this..."
There needs to be a limit on how far evil goes. When you have little kids as young as 3 weeks old with their hands tied behind their backs while being sexually battered, evil has gone too far. Fast forward to 09:45 if you dare to.
https://greatawakening.win/p/16bPQQQTYt/disney-employee-arrested-alongsi/c/
I believe there is a "limit". We set the limit and it is our job to make sure that limit exists. Those that break the limit get to take the "Room temperature challenge" ricky tick.
God can not impose such a limit and continue to be just and good. For numerous reasons. He said we have free will and so if He then limited us anyway, He would be a liar. God is not a liar.
It would also betray His character. He created us with free will, so our love was true, and we weren't just puppets with no true desire to follow Him. It would be contradictory to create us in such a way and then limit the very thing that makes us that way. God is not contradictory.
And how do you figure God determines between forms of evil, anyway? A perfect being would surely see all evil similarly, no? Sure, there are differences in the sense that different things are different, but in effect, a perfect and good God would not care in a moral sense. The wages for sin are the same no matter what sin you commit. Meaning, all evil is deserving of the same level of punishment.
Lying, murder, rape, etc.
The punishment is the same. Death and eternal separation from God.
OK - What about the evil madman that has his finger on the button of a nuclear device that can blow up the Earth? You think God is going to let the madman have his way just so the rest of us can have free will?