So, from the very definition (‘will’) we see that the assertion ‘it’s all God’s will’ does not withstand elementary criticism. Therefore, we need to ask: for what is there God’s will (desire, wanting; what does God want), and for what is there no God’s will? So, not everything is God’s will, far from everything is God’s will!
Not everything is God’s will because apart from God’s will there is human will and the will of fallen angels, who are in evil (angels of light try to live by God’s will and execute it, that is, align their will with God’s). Therefore, not everything is God’s will, not everything that happens is God’s Blessing. Each moment of reality is created by three wills: God’s, human, and angelic. It is these three wills that define the reality as it is at each moment70. God’s will each moment is primarily the following: to preserve the sovereignty of the free being – to protect the possibility of self-determination, hypostatic wanting (the will of the hypostasis is inviolable! Self-realization does not always succeed, for example, I want to do something for someone, but physically I cannot do it; desires (both good and evil) God accepts as deeds – see Mt. 5, 21 and on).
Therefore, God’s will lies in our will being free. But our will usually does not coincide with God’s will, we often want the opposite of God’s will (our desires are diametrically opposed), therefore the Church, reminding us of our twisted desire, teaches us to pray: ‘Our Father, let Thy will be done,’ ‘Let all wills, all desires become one.’ God’s will is that we want, will, but what to want, what to will, here, unfortunately, we rarely have God’s will, divine desire of Love.
Can we know: what does God want, and what does He not want?! We can and we know! We know because God became man, and revealed His will (eros, desire) to us in the Son and through the Son (in the hypostasis of the Logos)! Christians – members of the Body of Christ, fellow partakers of the Eucharistic Mystery Dinner of the Kingdom of God by the Holy Spirit know God’s will! Therefore we know what God wants! And we can already, being in the Only-Begotten Son, be only-begotten sons (each to the extent of divine-like humility), know the Divine eros! Therefore, God’s will: that all people be saved and come to the knowledge of the truth! That all be Happy (always)! But we see that people and fallen spirits are subjectively unhappy (Objectively, according to the testimony of Christians, all are already
Happy – this is the realized will of God: the Kingdom of God (Happiness) has come; it is in you and around you, but not everyone is in it yet – this is already the competence of the will (desire) of each)…
Does God want there to be evil? – No, because He did not create it! God weeps when He sees death (see John 11). Was it God’s will that the Morning Star fell, Adam sinned?! – Yes! Because when the Lord created the world, He knew in advance all the paths of creaturely beings: that satan would fall, Adam would apostatize, etc. He knew what would cost creation a godless life, what torments would have to be endured until everything is deified! Therefore, it can be said that God’s will is on everything that happens in the world, because God knew about everything that would happen before it happened and blessed the world to be (thus, everything in it)! When God, teaching man and leading the world to deification, allowed the world in man (and angels) to fall away from Himself, He knew in advance how to restore unity (and restored, forever hypostatically uniting in Himself two worlds – the creaturely and the uncreated)! (Be attentive: in our modest reflections, for lack of space (to illuminate this topic in detail, a whole separate volume is needed), we move from dogmatics to pedagogy and vice versa; therefore, understand from the context and the book as a whole, and from a certain fragment, what is being discussed – dogmatics or pedagogy). Therefore, the Lord wants us, as His image, to be free, therefore He preserves our sovereignty (primarily in relation to Himself – the Creator). But there is no God’s will for creation to suffer, to be tormented, to fall apart! As a father does not want his child to suffer, but himself takes her to the dentist, who will hurt the child! Similarly, God does not want creation to suffer, but for its happiness, to treat pain, death, resorts to methods: by death He conquered death, by pain He conquered pain (see Pt. I)!
Therefore, it is incorrect for us to say, when we do something and if there is no God’s will for it, then the Lord will not allow our evil will to be realized!? The Lord (at most) can warn, suggest, limit by circumstances, but in no case does He touch our will (freedom)! Did God want Judas to hang himself?! – No! Jesus saved him to the end! That is, God did not want Judas to hang himself, but he hanged himself! Suicide is not because the Lord wants it, but because God respects man, her sovereignty! Therefore, when someone does ‘good’ to someone (that is, evil, but thinks that they are doing good), and another wants this ‘good,’ then do not think that if there is no God’s will for it, then the ‘good’ will not act (there will be no evil; see Pt. I ‘Good deeds’). Eve did ‘good’ to Adam, helped him to ‘deify’ instantly, and he accepted this ‘good.’ And although they acted in ignorance, gave and received poison (though they thought they were doing good to each other), God did not catch Eve ‘by the hand’ and did not neutralize the action of the poison of disobedience… And began the history of painful childbirth (in severe torments) and sorrowful, in the sweat of the brow, consumption of bread…, evil in various forms: diseases, sorrows, wars, hardships, catastrophes… and what is most terrible – a godless life in hell.