Not exact matches
When God
allows good and
evil He gives us a
choice to seek fulfillment in Him, not the world.
Bob Bales, «an omniscient being would
allow the possibility of
evil so that those who do good do so by
choice and not by force.»
On the one hand, I've heard that
evil exists because of human
choice and that suffering is the result of rebellion against God, but on the other, I've been told that fallen humans have no
choice but to sin because it is inherent to their nature, and God sovereignly
allows suffering to continue.
So God
allowed Satan to tempt Adam and Eve, and fully desired that both of them would be victorious and choose not to want the
choice between Good and
Evil.
If you accept the premise of free will, which you must or we would all be believers, then you have to
allow for the possibility of
evil, sin, bad
choices whatever you want to call them.