Presence Of "Evil?"

[garyc8]

This is a term one will encounter in philosophy texts/classes, that IMO is the best answer to the problem of evil.
The idea is this: God chooses for us to have free-will. For some reason this is necessary to his plan. Maybe this life is a test and only those who do well get to move on. Maybe we have to learn things in this life, to prepare us for the next. At any rate, our "good" choices would be meaningless if we did not have the option of making "bad" or "evil" choices instead.
Therefore, God grants us free-will, because it's the only way our lives can have any point. He accepts that the side-effect of this is that some of us will choose to do rotten things.

Hope that helps.

BTW- I'm not trying to convince you about God. I'm an undecided myself. This is just the best argument I've found.