God is love

We have reason and can appreciate intellectual evidence. For example, the evidence of beauty in music or in painitng is perceived by our mind, and not by our senses. An animal may hear the same sound, or see the same colour without being impressed by their harmony and proportion. Apart from the bible altogether, our rational nature is enough evidence for the existence of God.

God is love. He asks the freely given love of men and not a compelled love. Because He is just, He will not deprive us of the free will which is in line with our rational attribute. We cannot be free to love and serve God without being free to reject him and rebel against Him. Even if God wants men to be free,He cannot take from them the power to choose evil. If he enforces goodness, He takes away freedom. If he leaves freedom, He must permit evil, even though He forbids it. It is our dignity that we are master of our own destiny instead of developing like a tree that has to obey natural law.