it enables us to grow into sons worthy of the divine Father who made us. But of course, the degree of pain that would call for an eye or a hand—the degree of pain, that is, that we encounter daily in our world— was not part of the original plan. Evil and suffering as we know it is the result of the Fall, not of the free will experiment that made possible that Fall. And so, if we are truly to understand the problem of pain, then we must understand exactly what was involved in the Fall. This Lewis