if god is so powerfull,why didnt he just destroy all the evil?

Answer 1

Your question reminds me of the film "Time Bandits" -- toward the end, the little boy asks God, "Why does there have to be evil in the world?"

God (portrayed as a very well-dressed, proper English gentleman) replies, "I think it has something to do with free will."

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Answer 2

Most of your answer involve some importance of free will. Free will is only selfishly important. Life exists that only act and react in a non-cognitive manner, I.E with no free will. Free will has no important implications in anything and is only a philosophical idea. The answer to your question is he isn't. Nothing powerful enough to destroy evil could justify not doing so in an manner than laziness or selfishness. Why create free will if you know it will create suffering? Unless you accept that you are not all powerful then there is no reason to create any form of suffering. Nor can you blame one for making choices once given free will. Why create temptation and the means to follow those temptations, there-by creating evil, suffering, good and bad in all forms? It is an illogical argument. I think we might have reached the answer you were looking for, if not well marinade a little bit. Yours truly,

Mervin DePervin

P.S in response to the above: if you don't have good, and you don't have evil, you have neutrality. A world without happiness and sadness makes contentment. For us to wish to be happy when we know it will cause sadness in others is evil (if there is such a thing). What's wrong with contentment?

Answer 3

If God destroy all the evil, how is God going to test how faithful human are towards God's benevolence. But God will destroy the evil first during the end of the world.

Answer 4

How would you even know what evil was unless you could measure it against something that was not evil (i.e. God).
Your question actually proves the usefullness of evil in the world. It shows us that this world is in a "fallen" state and it SHOULD cause us to reach outside of ourselves for an answer. After all, if we COULD solve our own problems, why haven't we?
God did not create evil, He just uses it to show us that we're powerless to save ourselves from it.
Most of us ignore this vital life lesson because we're too egotistical and think we can do it all ourselves. This philosophyreally took hold in America during the 60's when a large group of well intentioned, yet philosophically wrong people got together and tried to end the war, poverty, discrimination, etc., etc., etc., on their own.
The history of this country took a DRAMATIC change ever since then and this is their legacy; materialism, self indulgence, rampant pride, and a general disdain for anything they don't understand. Oh yeah, and let us not forget a predictable dislike for anything that smacks of a Judeo/Christian nature.
Hope this helps!

Answer 5

Hundreds of millions prayed for this god creature to stop Hitler before he caused 30+ million to die during WWII and he did NOTHING. A simple little blood clot would have done the trick, say in 1934, but NOOOOOO. If this god creature could turn a good woman into a pillar of salt for looking over her shoulder, why couldn't he answer the prayers to end evil. Either this god is heartless, powerless, both, or does not exist at all.

Answer 6

God can do a great many things, but he cannot do something beyond himself. God can make it snow in the desert, but he cannot make 2+2=5. He can substitute the word and numerical representation of four into five, but he cannot make something true that is untrue.

Consequently, God can only destroy or limit a possibility by limiting one's choices. Evil results from the possibility of choice (I can go left or right). If there is only one choice, then it ceases to have value or meaning (let's see, should I pick the red hat or the red hat). What is the value of Good if Good is the only option?

For things to be whole, they must have opposites, something to compare itself against: light is necessary to have dark, dark is necessary to have light. If there is light, and no dark, there is no light for how would you know?

If every day is perfect, then no day is perfect, for there must be lesser for there to be greater. Mountains are magestic because of the valleys from which they rise. In the process of error is perfection realized.

To be happy is to know suffering, to know suffering is to prepare oneself for happiness.

Answer 7

The Quran says, "If Allah did send an angel, He would
fix it right! And there would be a lot of sorry people
looking at the Fires of Hell."
Best to be grateful God is forgiving and patient. And we
have another day, and another opportuntiy to get it
right!

Answer 8

Because he gave man freewill and it is man that creates evil so the only way he could extinguish evil would be to get rid of free will or man? What would be the benefit of either one biblical speaking? Why do you think we are here for then?

Answer 9

Because good and evil in men is like the blade of grass.... How much work it is to pluck just one to find the one that is bad.... But, when all the grass is cut low, then one can see all that is in the ground... all the blades that are rotting..... and all that need to be dug up....... And so, all grow up together, until a time is come to mow that grass......


your sister,
Ginger

Answer 10

Because that would mean destroying his most advanced Creation (human beings).

Evil is caused by the animalistic tendencies of the subconscious mind.