Excerpt from The Problem of Evil: Being an Attempt to Shew That the Existence of Sin and Pain in the World Is Not Inconsistent With the Goodness and Power of God Since God cannot, as infinitely Wise and Holy, do what would involve a contradiction (an absurdity) or what would be morally wrong (it is 'impossible for God to lie, ' Heb. Vi. We may assert that God Himself could not create a man with free will, and at the same time force him to choose good and not evil. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.