2006-09-30 23:53:56 · 20 answers · asked by abbas h 1 in Arts & Humanities ➔ Philosophy
Because man has free will. As long as things like greed,envy,jealousy and crime exist,there will be evil and suffering.
2006-09-30 23:57:21 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
We need to go back to the tree of the knowledge of good and evil in the garden of Eden.
At the point where these two who lived in perfect enviroment went against God's instructions sin and death came into the world.
The sin nature is throught every cell in our body passed on from the man because he was not deceived as Eve was.
We all have a sin nature and we all have an inbuilt knowledge of right and wrong.
As humans we make our own decisions,therefor we create our own happiness or misery.
We are on the earth to resolve the angelic conflict each time a person makes the choice to go with God's plan of salvation it is another nail in satan's coffin.
God cannot intervene in this time of satan's appeal trial.
When it has run it's course justice will be metred out.
The reason for evil and suffering or "contentment and peace"!
2006-10-01 07:10:47 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Without evils and suffering God wont have any job. Almight has duty of fighting the evils and suffering. And if there is no evil and suffering men would never bother about GOD. Just imagine inspite of all the unexpected things happening around the world we dont think about GOD, how do you expect the men to think about GOD living happily without any problems.
2006-10-01 08:03:44 · answer #3 · answered by vlikeme 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Does god do things because he's benevolent? If yes, then what he wills is because he's right. but...
If he's benevolent, how could he allow 6 million of his chosen people to be incinerated by Hitler, or why did he allow Truman to vaporize 200,000 Japanese men, women and children or Stalin to kill 30m Christians? If he was also omnipotent AND benevolent, then these events could not have happened.
If you counter that man's "free will" caused those events to happen, so don't blame God, then can it be said God is not omnipotent AND benevolent, because he allowed man's free will to reign?
And further, the mere existence of evil in the world makes the existence of a benign god impossible: if god were omnipotent, he could eliminate evil and if he were benign, he would want to do so...another way of saying this:
If god is able to prevent evil but is not willing to prevent evil, then he is not benevolent.
If god is willing to prevent evil but is not able to prevent evil, then he is not omnipotent.
Evil is either in occordance with god's intention or contrary to it. Thus, either god cannot prevent evil or he does not want to prevent evil.
2006-10-01 14:43:20 · answer #4 · answered by Its not me Its u 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Evil is actually an illusion if you read the ancient texts that has been created by man. We created a mortal world out of our falling from paradise by no longer realising ourselves as connected to the eternal. Doubt has brought about fear and suffering. It is just productive evolution of the conscious mind in the long run.
2006-10-01 07:04:03 · answer #5 · answered by Bear 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
He's right. How would you define holy? The reasn why evil exist, its because its a test to see that if we believe in God so we can enjoy everlasting happiness. Suffering cause if we are perfect, we might be Gods as well.
2006-10-01 07:00:54 · answer #6 · answered by easterner 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
God doesn't see things (evils, suffering and....) from people's point of view.
2006-10-01 14:05:56 · answer #7 · answered by noname 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
yes theirs a God there's evil and suffering because, we need to get along with each other.God love's every one and so should we.
2006-10-01 07:02:59 · answer #8 · answered by linda b 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
That's it. There is NO god! For those who believe there is one...then it is a evil and jealous god.
2006-10-01 18:28:44 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
God gave humans free will. If all humans done what God wanted then bad things would not happen.
2006-10-01 17:04:27 · answer #10 · answered by earl 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋