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The Problem of Evil: Why Is There Evil if a Good God Exists? | Prof. Gloria Frost

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Why Did They Choose Theirself Over God?

I heard you say that it is not possible for God to have created free creatures without simultaneously creating a wall in which moral evil exists. But couldn't God by his grace have created humans who would always really choose good example a world where everyone is like the blessed Virgin? If so, then how is that wall not a better wall than the one we exist in. Yeah, I mean, yeah yeah so it is a problem there's actually a lot of in the middle ages lot of debates about how to even explain it Like it seems like a real puzzle they sin without, you know, they're a lot of the conditions that often lead us to sin.

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