# Free Will Fails to Explain the Existence of Evil?

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/free-will-fails-to-explain-the-existence-of-evil/105508>\
**Category:** Great Debates\
**Created:** [April 25, 2002, 6:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/free-will-fails-to-explain-the-existence-of-evil/105508 "2002-04-25T06:20:32Z")\
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**Author:** ![erislover](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/71e660/32.png) [@erislover](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/erislover)\
**Post date:** [April 30, 2002, 8:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/free-will-fails-to-explain-the-existence-of-evil/105508/41 "2002-04-30T20:49:55Z")

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God, in making man, obviously limited our freedom if we are based in his image.

Thus, god limited the freedom of others.

Thus, god did evil.

I’m not sure you really wanted to say that, **jawdirk**.

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**Author:** ![jawdirk](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/df705f/32.png) [@jawdirk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jawdirk)\
**Post date:** [April 30, 2002, 10:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/free-will-fails-to-explain-the-existence-of-evil/105508/42 "2002-04-30T22:00:54Z")

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erislover,

“God, in making man, obviously limited our freedom if we are based in his image.”

That’s stupid. 😉 God is total free will. What kind of limitation is that?

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