Man and Sin by Piet Schoonenberg (1964) 1.7BD

Summary of text [comment] pages 53 and 54

Why doesn’t God just destroy evil people?

These types of questions were raised in the 16th and 17th centuries, when the so-called Renaissance was trending into the so-called Enlightenment.

[Of course, these questions were misleading. They pretended that God’s freedom and fairness were actualities that could contradict one another.

Instead, fairness puts actions into context. Actions situate freedom.

God’s existence encompasses all modes of causality.

God’s existence includes normal context, actuality, and potential.

God does not induce sin, even though God supports a world in which evil exists.

God supports a world in which we are free.]