Love, Pain, Grief, and Joy: Vol. 2, The Problem of Pain by C.S. Lewis
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The Problem of Divine Omnipotence
David: God can't produce something illogical. He erases his mistake and starts over, but they didn't have to erase the second mistake and the third mistake. And eventually he's erasing all human mistakes. If somebody was going to do evil with a piece of wood, he turns it into a flower or he takes it even a malicious thought and turning it into a good thought. In doing so, the whole experiment of giving free will to other creatures is erased because he takes away their free will. So if we're going to have an arena in which we have consciousness, there needs to be some neutral matter which obeys its own laws.
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