He had the freedom and power not to make the world or to make it and to make in any way at all. The world might have been radically different than it is, if only God had arranged things differently. Creation or nature is malleable. Human beings had been understood to be suffering from the consequences of the Fall of Adam and Eve. The misery that afflicts our condition is readily apparent even if nobody agrees about the theological accounts of it origin and its remedy.
Human nature experiences suffering and cries out for relief.
Francis Bacon, one of the earliest modern philosophers, explained that the difference between earlier and modern philosophy concerned the end or goal. Ancient philosophy was contemplative or speculative. Instead, knowledge must be fruitful and useful for human life. It must enlarge our power over the environment in which we live. We reward technological innovations with wealth.