For love to exist, there must be choices. For choices to exist, there must be consequences. If there are no consequences or differences, then choice doesn't exist. And if there's no choice, there's no love. The free will to make choices is what makes us capable of responding to God and thus capable of a personal and loving relationship with him. Robots are incapable of a loving relationship because they are programmed; they have no independent free will. Creatures without free will would mean a world without love.

Therefore, according to the Bible, God didn't bring evil and suffering into the world. His creatures did.

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