According to St. Augustine, evil comes from free will in that we have the choice to choose goodness or not. If we did not have free will, we could not truly and sincerely love God since love requires self-donation. This freedom allows us to choose the absence of goodness (since evil can hardly be said to be a reality, but rather a privation of good), but then how can that be freedom at all? Are we free when we choose darkness (the absence of light) over light?
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