evil in this world. Perhaps, some suggest, God should not have granted free will, particularly if the result is all the horrendous evil in this world. In my view, the free will defense is strongest when the value that is offered as the morally sufficient reason for God’s allowance of evil is not moral freedom alone but love, which I take to be a greater good, perhaps even the greatest good in the universe. Indeed, if “God is love” (1 John 4:8, 16), what value could be greater? Thus I agree with Davis