"A world that
had never been touched by evil would be a good place, but it wouldn't
be the best place possible. The best of all worlds would be a place
where evil facilitated the development of virtues that are only able to
exist where evil flourishes for a time. This would produce a world
populated by souls that were refined by overcoming evil with good. The
evil is momentary. The good that results is eternal.
What good
comes out of a drive-by killing, someone might ask, or the death of a
teenager through overdose, or a daughter's rape, or child abuse? The
answer is that a commensurate good doesn't always come out of those individual
situations, though God is certainly capable of redeeming any tragedy.
Rather, the greater good results from having a world in which there is
moral freedom, and moral freedom makes moral tragedies like these
possible."
-Greg Koukl, Augustine on evil
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