Why does God allow evil?

Question

Why does God allow evil men and women to live? Should He instead kill them before they do evil deeds? Should He judge murderers and rapists now? What about thieves and liars, adulterers, fornicators, those who lust, and those who hate? If God judged evil today, all unconverted men and women would perish under His wrath. Thank God that He is patiently waiting for them to turn to the Savior and be saved from His terrible wrath.


What do you think?

Answer 1

There is no god. We just are and things just happen.

Answer 2

I'm agree with u.
If God judged evil today, all unconverted men and women would perish under His wrath. Thank God that He is patiently waiting for them to turn to the Savior and be saved from His terrible wrath.

Answer 3

I wonder the same thing as the mother of my only children dumped the family to send more money home to her native country. God should never have allowed that. That's not what anybody else in the family would have wanted. Per the Bible, the evil is always out there. However, the Bible also tells of several stories I do NOT believe, such as Noah's ark, and contradicts itself in places. There's also a ton of good (and bad) people who aren't Christian, but believe in some other form of religion, or whom remain agnostic looking for more answers. Are they wrong? I don't believe so. You can't convince me Billy Graham would have found Christianity if he'd been born in Bandar Abbas. The bottom line becomes whether you will lead a good life despite the inconsistency of religions. The bottom line comes from inside YOU. So do the best you can with the gifts you have, wherever they may have come from. And don't let the negatives outweigh the positives.

Answer 4

God gave us free will. We all know if what we do is right or wrong. It is our choice to make the mistakes. There is no good without evil. Then everything would be good, and no one would know what evil even was. The only way to be saved is to worship God and not a human, remember that. Because worshipping anything other than God alone is evil and sinful.

Answer 5

This is my opinion of the topic at, of course this is a Islamic approach to the issue since I myself am a Muslim. This is adapted from Hassanian Rajabali's debate, he is a world renowned speaker. even though you may think that this is bias, but it make logical sense just read on.

There's no such thing as absolute evil. Absolute evil does not exist--it is relative--and it changes its position depending on which side you take, and which angle of perspective you take. That which is good for one side can be bad for another simultaneously as is the case in a relative frame of reference.
I can say that I can be extremely larger with relations to an atom, and at the same time, I am extremely small with the relations to the universe. It depends on my frame of reference, when things change positions. Thus when we talk about relativity, when we talk about good and evil, they take positions inside but nothing in the universe is absolutely evil. There is no such thing.

Let me give another example, lies versus truth. You will find that to lie is evil and to speak the truth is good. You will see that lies cannot exist without the truth, but on the other hand, truth can exist without lie. For example, if I say, I always lie. Does it make sense? No. Because there is no essence of truth in my statement, thus it becomes nonsensical. Therefore, truth is a necessary constituent to lies. But I can certainly say that, "I always speak the truth", or "I sometimes speak the truth", it makes perfect sense, because there is an element of truth in my statement, and thus my statement makes sense.
Thus when it comes to the relative perspective within the Islamic position, that is what it means. When Allah says, min sharri ma qalaq--by the evil or by that rejection. What does 'Evil' mean from the Islamic perspective? It means that which lacks good. It's just like 'darkness'. It cannot exist. You cannot measure darkness. It is lack of light that you can measure. You cannot measure coldness. It is lack of heat, because it is only heat that our senses measure, not coldness.

So from the Islamic perspective, it is a relativistic position, and evil is a trial. When evil comes into play would we say that when a teacher gives exam, and each question has 5 multiple choices, and only one is right, and four are wrong. From that perspective you say that one of them is a good answer. If you select the right one you get rewarded, and if you select any of the other four, it is evil, because you get punished by getting a zero for that question. Now, would you say that the teacher is inherent to evil for having put four wrong answers to one right answer? Or would you say that the exam is so preposterous that evil absolutely outweighs the good. Would you say that the teacher should remove all evil, and make all answers correct? In fact, you will say that you are fooling me--you are now shaking my own foundation--that you are actually insulting me. Either give me the exam and allow me to select my own ways, and to see the difference between the good and the bad, the right and the wrong, or else, don't try me.

Answer 6

I'm not sure what you will think of this one, but are you familiar with Isaiah 45:4-8?

4 "For the sake of Jacob My servant, And Israel My chosen one, I have also called you by your name; I have given you a title of honor Though you have not known Me. 5 "I am the LORD, and there is no other; Besides Me there is no God. I will gird you, though you have not known Me; 6 That men may know from the rising to the setting of the sun That there is no one besides Me. I am the LORD, and there is no other, 7 The One forming light and creating darkness, Causing well-being and creating calamity; I am the LORD who does all these. 8 "Drip down, O heavens, from above, And let the clouds pour down righteousness; Let the earth open up and salvation bear fruit, And righteousness spring up with it. I, the LORD, have created it.

Answer 7

We all have free will to make choices and decisions that effect not just our life but the lives of those around us as well.
One day everyone will stand before the Mighty One and be judged according to their works. In that day, the rightous will go and live with the Father in glory. The unrightous will live in a place of torment for eternity.

Answer 8

People are selfish. Its not all about mankind's salvation, its about the true god clearing his good name from satan's accusations. If he destroyed sinners instantly then he would not give the humans a chance to learn for themselves if that act should be considered a sin or not. He would be unfair or unrighteous, which is what he claims to be and what Satan claims that he is not. There's more at stake than the salvation of mankind, all of mankind can die as long as the true god remains true, he could create them again just as they were and we wouldn't even know it. He has to be found true and just in all of his ways.

Answer 9

I think it is good that He does not kill all evil men/women....otherwise there would be no mankind left on earth. Including you and me. But the reason he does not destroy those that do evil is because then mankind would not have that little thing called choice. Yes He could force us to serve Him, but it is His desire that we choose to serve Him because we love Him. So He provided a way for us to successfully be able to come to Him because He is gracious and merciful. He sent His beloved son to come as flesh, to die as flesh and then to be resurrected to His right hand. When we accept what He personly did for us...His bloods covers our sin and He vouches for us to the Father. Our sin stands condemed, but because of the blood of our Lord, that covers our sins, we can stand before the Father blameless. How merciful! All we have to do is accept!

Answer 10

I agree...God is not willing that ANY should perish. He is allowing sin to run its course so that all the universe can see what the results are. We will be so sick of sin that the ones who choose to go to heaven will never want anything that would seperate them from God again!

Answer 11

Religion has warped your mind into thinking that planet earth is god's little terrarium and he plants and prunes as a hobby. God, or something, started us off and we are on our own. God does not answer our prayers, we answer our own prayers. Praying does nothing more than focus you. Then you come up with your own answer. Everything else is a load of whatever ugly smelly thing you want to come up with.