" It seems to me that the matter of the origin of evil has been solved and clarified, as well as the nature of evil actions themselves. If I am not mistaken, as has been argued, evil has its origin in the free decision of the will. But I still ask you whether the very will of which we are speaking and from which there is no doubt that sin originates, can be actually given to us by the one who made us. It would seem certain had we not been given such a will we would not have sinned, and it would "

― Justo L. González , The Mestizo Augustine: A Theologian Between Two Cultures