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Pursuit Driver
A question I have often heard is why did God allow evil? The other day, I heard Ravi Zacharias (possibly the greatest Christian thinker of our age, IMHO) talking, and he said essentially this:
God is love. Love always requires freedom. If a person is forced to love, then that is not love. God does not force people to come to Him. So, if a person has freedom to choose good (love/God), then the opposite choice must also exist (hatred/satan). Therefore, God had to allow evil to exist in order to truly love and give us the freedom of choice to love Him back.
Awesome.
God is love. Love always requires freedom. If a person is forced to love, then that is not love. God does not force people to come to Him. So, if a person has freedom to choose good (love/God), then the opposite choice must also exist (hatred/satan). Therefore, God had to allow evil to exist in order to truly love and give us the freedom of choice to love Him back.
Awesome.