suffering. It is true that God uses evil to sanctify us, but the true making of souls, both in old and new creations, is by divine grace. As for Leibniz’s theory, many have doubted whether there could be such a thing as a “best possible world.” Given any possible universe, can we not always imagine another that includes one more good or one less evil? Indeed, Scripture tells us explicitly that the present world is inferior to the world to come. If God is able to make a world that is temporarily less