Abstract:
Can an omnipotent and omnibenevolent God create humans with free will without the
capacity to commit evil? Scholars have taken opposite positions on the contentious
problem. Using scripture and the rules of logic, we argue that God cannot create
impeccable creatures because of his ‘simplicity’. God cannot create gods, because God is
uncreated. Peccable humans freely choose to disobey their creator and thus cannot blame
him for the horrendous evils in this world. Concerning the belief of sinless humans with
free will in heaven, we suggest that such an impartation of God’s impeccability can be
accomplished, not through creation, but by the marriage of Christ and the Church, for the
two shall become one. Believers will become children of God and partakers of the divine
nature.
CONTRIBUTION: Theologians and philosophers have argued whether God could create humans
with free will who never commit evil, and if he could, why did he not do so? The primary
contribution of this article is the argument
