“A God who could or would make a creature whom he could not or would not control, is no God…He would have ceased to be a moral being. It is an immoral act to make a thing that we cannot or will not control. The only justification for making anything is that we both can and will control it. If a man should manufacture a quantity of an unstable high-explosive in the corridors of an orphanage and when the stuff went off should seek to excuse himself by saying that he could not control it, no one would count his excuse as valid. What right had he to manufacture it, we would say, unless he could control it? He relieves himself of none of the responsibility for the havoc wrought by pleading inability to control his creation. To suppose that God has made a universe-or even a single being-the control of which he renounces, is to accuse him of similar immorality.” (B.B. Warfield, Selected Shorter Writings, edited by John Meeter, Vol.1, Presbyterian and Reformed, 1970, p. 104).
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