Quote:Thus evil is not necessary to allow free-will if God knows everything.
Free will is not possible if your deity is omniscient.
While we are on free will: Christians say if we love and obey God to heaven. BUT if we do not, and break his rules we go to hell. A psychologist would call that "an approach-avoid conflict" I call it coercion.There is no real choice. What is the point of free will if those are your choices? The dichotomy is cruel.God plays with a stacked deck.
'Evil' is a moral value, not an objective reality and not absolute.