Case Quote by William Temple

God did not create evil. Just as darkness is the absence of light, evil is the absence of God.

— Albert Einstein

“God didn’t create evil in the world, but He did create free will, which allowed for the possibility of evil. Science isn’t like that.…

— Dee Henderson

“How does the capacity to do evil exist, if that capacity is not within the creator as well? It’s just not possible. The fruit…

— Joe Wenke

God did not create the evil. He established the laws which are always good because he is good. The spirits would have been completely…

— Allan Kardec

God created the possibility of evil; people actualized that potentiality. The source of evil is not God's power but mankind's freedom. Even an all-powerful…

— Peter Kreeft

For, were it not good that evil things should also exist, the omnipotent God would almost certainly not allow evil to be, since beyond…

— Saint Augustine

Either God wants to abolish evil, and cannot; or he can, but does not want to.

— Epictetus

“The creation of man whom God in his foreknowledge knew doomed to sin was the awful index of God's omnipotence. For it would have…

— Robert Penn Warren

Sometimes (at least in principle) God might allow some evil because doing so will prevent a greater evil, and sometimes He might allow evil…

— Greg Koukl

“The very concept of evil challenges the wisdom of God because He would never create anything that is not desirable or not needed. Everything…

— Awdhesh Singh

Why does God allow evil in the world? To thicken the plot.

— Ramakrishna

Evil is a violation of purpose, the purpose of your creator and mine.

— Ravi Zacharias