I had a conversation with a friend today who questions everything and he asked me an interesting question.
let's call him P and i'm M.
A: if God is all-knowing.....why did he create satan in the first place?
M: Free will. you can't have real choice without the option to rebel.
M: yes. freedom without risk isn't freedom, it's control.
A: so the world suffers just to prove a point about freedom? that's a really heavy price.
M: or maybe without that risk nothing we call love, loyalty or goodness would be real.