how can you have good without evil? if we were automatons we would have no evil, but we would also have no good. without the potential to do evil you cannot have the potential to commit good.
You forget that all things are possible to God. There is no 'need' which is greater than the Lord, else he is not omnipotent. He did not 'need' to create us. He did not 'need' to create evil. He chose to do both. This was the version of creation he desired - one with suffering and death. The question is 'why did God desire that evil should exist, that man should fall, that Lucifer should fall'? That's the really difficult question.
how can a coin with one side exist while still calling it a coin? a coin with one side is a sphere
that would be like saying that god made the sun but he also made your shadow, you cannot have one without the other. you need to have a point of reference for good or evil to exist, you would need to abandon free will for either to go away.
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