Why Evil Exists

"The shadows exist in the painting, the dark corners of grief and trial and wickedness all exist so that He might step in side them, so we can know how low He can stoop. In this story, the Author became flesh and wandered the stage with Hamlet, offering His own life. In this story, the Author heaped all that He loathed, all that displeased Him, all the wrongness of the world, onto Himself. Evil exists so that He might be demeaned and insulted, so that the depth of His love could be expressed as much as possible in the small frame of history." 

N.D. Wilson, Notes from the Tilt-a-Whirl, 

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