If god is all-good and all powerful how can evil exist?

Question

"If God is All-Good and All-Powerful, evil should not exist. Therefore, either God is All-Good but can't stop evil because God is not All-Powerful, or God is All-Powerful but allows evil because God is not All-Good."
- http://www.skepdic.com/atheism.html

Answer 1

This is too logical for some to comprehend....

Answer 2

this is one of the most difficult questions a person who believes in G-d can ask themselves. the origin of evil is goodness, and therefore yes, G-d is the origin of evil. evil exists because G-d is good, despite how contradictory it sounds. it really becomes a "damned if you do, damned if you don't" situation. G-d could simply take back all free will and control humans completely, preventing them from ever exercising their free will and thereby preventing them from doing evil - but how could a G-d who creates humans as puppets, unable to make a choice or have a thought or live a real life, possibly be "good"? rabbi yitzhak luria whose thoughts contributed greatly to kabbalah says that that evil is like a shell that covers something good. once you peel the shell away, you will find that inside the shell is goodness and G-dliness. G-d made a sacrifice by giving us free will while knowing that evil would exist because of it - it is our responsibility to "peel away the shell", so to speak, and therefore bring out the inherent goodness in all of us.

Answer 3

In order for love to exist, there has to be free will, the ability to choose love or not. So God withdraws from creation a little, allowing people to make choices. Apparently God thinks the creation of love was worth the risk of evil. Don't forget, all evils are remedied in eternity.

Answer 4

I'll I can do is give my opinion. I believe that God is all powerful. God created everything, including the angels. 1/3 of the angels, left God, because they were jealous of man. Satan is the main figure here regarding fallen angels. Satan is not the opposite of God, he would be the opposite of Michael the Archangel. God gave us free will, how we live, and if we want to serve Him or not. Time for us and God is different, so we may think that evil is existing forever when it is just a fragment of time. Unexplainable to us. The Devil knows his time is short, so he wants to take as many humans away from God as possible, using any means possible. He despises us, and doesn't want us to live for eternity in paradise.

Answer 5

Sorry to call you out on this one yagman, however according to your theory then when God created Adam and Eve before the "fruit incident" it could not exist. That would suggest then that that story in the bible is false and infact make the bible a false doctorine.

Accorting to my Bible Adam and Eve were good, at first creation. Yet you liken them to a battery (completely different physics all together) so he must have made the world with evil before He created adam and eve.
If we point out the fact that a fallen angel exist then we have to deal with the fact that before he fell evil must still have existed. Then who created it. God!

Answer 6

if there was no evil we would not know what "good" is. the reason why we have good or evil, or light and dark, or pain and pleasure is because one cannot exist without the other. if things were always "good" we wouldnt realize it. god allows bad things to happen because he would never intervene on our free will. the only thing that can reverse evil is ourselves and the choices we make.

Answer 7

Everything which exist - including evil - was created by God. Why is the better question? And I have no idea!

Answer 8

God allows free will, so some people choose evil

Answer 9

Note what Job 34:10 says: “Far be it from the true God to act wickedly, and the Almighty to act unjustly!” Similarly, James 1:13states: “When under trial, let no one say: ‘I am being tried by God.’ For with evil things God cannot be tried nor does he himself try anyone.” So if you have suffered evil, rest assured that God is not the cause. 
1 John 5:19 states: “The whole world is lying in the power of the wicked one.” Who is this wicked one? Jesus Christ identified him as Satan the Devil, whom he called “the ruler of the world.” (John 14:30) 
To fully understand, I invite you to read Why Does God Permit Suffering? :
http://wol.jw.org/en/wol/d/r1/lp-e/102006402?q=why+does+God+permit+suffering&p=par

Answer 10

Uhmmm, enable me furnish you with a pattern. Do you ingredient darkness exist? darkness is only a effect if there is lack of light. chilly exist even as there is lack of warm temperature. And EVIL change into no longer created through God. Evil is a effect even as there is not any love of God recent in his heart. God did not created evil angel, those were those who distant themselves from him. yet imagine about it, the ex convicts who relied on in Him grew to change into strong precise? Lucifer himself stayed remote from God. it really is why evil is recent in Lucifer.

Answer 11

When God created the world, He stated in Genesis 1:31 that everything was good. Adam and Eve wee placed in the Garden, and it was a paradise. But when Adam sinned, everything changed. The Bible says the whole universe was cursed.
Gen 3:17 And unto Adam he said, Because thou hast hearkened unto the voice of thy wife, and hast eaten of the tree, of which I commanded thee, saying, Thou shalt not eat of it: cursed [is] the ground for thy sake; in sorrow shalt thou eat [of] it all the days of thy life;
Gen 3:18 Thorns also and thistles shall it bring forth to thee; and thou shalt eat the herb of the field;
Gen 3:19 In the sweat of thy face shalt thou eat bread, till thou return unto the ground; for out of it wast thou taken: for dust thou [art], and unto dust shalt thou return.
The result of sin: pain, suffering and death came into the world, and ownership of this world passed from Adam to Satan.
Satan though is a defeated foe, and Christ will return soon as the Lord of lords and the King of kings, and establish a new Heaven and a new Earth.