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Over the last few weeks, we have been looking at possible reasons why God allows evil and suffering to exist, including as punishment for sin, and as a consequence of other people’s sin (as a byproduct of free will). Recently, we have suggested that the exercise of free will is perhaps the predominant reason why God allows evil and suffering to exist. In this vein, we have sure enough seen how most all evil and suffering in the world traces back to free will decisions made by human beings. In short, the free will argument often dominates among all explanations given. This is all right, and well, and good, except the free will argument can hardly explain why North Carolina and Florida were devastated by back-to-back hurricanes not so long ago. In fact, one would think it absurd to think that these disasters were brought about by human free will under any circumstances.
