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God Reforms Hearts: Rethinking Free Will and the Problem of Evil is unavailable, but you can change that!

Must we be free to truly love? Evil is a problem for all Christians. When responding to objections that both evil and God can exist, many resort to a “free will defense,” where God is not the creator of evil but of human freedom, by which evil is possible. This response is so pervasive that it is just as often assumed as it is defended. But is this answer biblically and philosophically...

With this “relational dimension,” the Traditional Free Will Defense morphs into the Relational Free Will Defense. Real love requires libertarian choice, and real libertarian choice entails the possibility of saying “no” to love. The alternative—a world in which everyone lacks the libertarian power to say “no” to love—would indeed be a world devoid of moral evil. However, it would simultaneously be a relationally vacuous world, no more loving than a warehouse full of computers. In the words of Simone
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