Why is there all this evil in the world. C.S.Lewis has the answer
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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?
God works through people who give their will to Him to stop things like that from happening.
But if no one chose to follow God, then yes, He respects free will. This isn't some sometimes shit where He "tries" to respect free-will "when possible". God does not try anything, He simply does.