Why does God allow evil?
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There is no god. We just are and things just happen.
834990
Nope God is not evil.He does not temp good with evil nor can he be evil.Satan is the first person that was evil.Evil is the same thing as sin.Being evil is disobeying God.Their was no evil when it was just God.Only after satan fell and tried to control man and make them evil.
318531
According to my understanding, God created both good and evil in order to give man free will to chose between them. In the Jewish tradition, we believe that both good and evil exist not only in the world but within a human being; therefore we are continuously confronted to our own duality and we don't always know what to chose from. Some things appear to be good but they are not, other blessings come disguised as a curse To trade one's soul so that Satan can return to God and therefore erradicate evil from the world would be a great opportunity to save the world and achieve world peace. And by the way, it would not be dangerous for the "traded" soul because when Satan returns to God, all will be one.
878626
If it so EVIL ,why do all religions want you to give yours to them?\nGod certainly doesn`t need it .Supposedly he can make anything he wants.
372235
I have been told that he allows evil to let us make a choice, but if he knows everything he already knows what is going to be our choice.  He also can do anything, and if he can do anything, he also can stop us from sinning.  If he knows what we are going to choose but he doesn't stop us, then he made the choice, not us. So what's the point of that? It doesn't make sense.
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good and evil are not dictated by some religious law, but by the inner compass.  humans have a natural conscience which distinguishes right from wrong.  it works through intelligence and compassion.  \n\nthe dalai lama explains it this way: i understand pain and suffering, and i desire pleasure and joy.  i realize other beings are like me and they also prefer pleasure to pain.  this knowledge results in compassion: treating others with kindness because i understand them.\n\nlong explanation, sorry.  but that kind intention based on compassion for other beings or the earth is goodness.\n\ncausing intentional pain to other beings or the earth, either out of greed or because you enjoy causing harm and seeing others suffer, is evil.
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God has always been more than fair if you look back through the Bible.  Even still people do evil things and can be forgiven by just simply asking.  Yes, this is how we want things in my opinion.
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Simple answer:\n\nYou're question is too deep to answer fully in this type of forum, but I will still comment on the basics.\n\nLet me address a few things first. You're question was phrased rather negatively, as if this evil act (stillborn babies) was directly given by God. They are not. (From this point forward let's assume God exists and the Bible is His word so that things make sense at least in this thread).\n\nThe Bible says that God is all good and all powerful. So if evil and suffering exists (stillborn babies) why doesn't God stop it? Well, first off God can easily stop it. That much is obvious. The second half is less obvious.\n\nGod says He created adam and eve perfect, sinless, without suffering, in a perfect world, living in God's presence. God also gave them free will to either choose God or reject Him. They opted for the latter. Because of that man separated himself from God and was unable to return to Him by themselves (God fixed the problem by sending Jesus but that is a topic for a different post). Now God could have stopped them from sinning but that would have been pointless. Imagine being a parent and stopping your kid from rejecting you thereby forcing them to love you. That would be torture and would turn your kids into mere robots and slaves. God wanted people to frelly choose Him so He had to give the ability to reject Him and also to face the consequences of that action otherwise people would never learn from doing bad things (ie If I killed someone and then God instantly resurrected that person, I would feel no guilt or shame because my bad actions would have no consequences). To make a long story short we now live in a world riddled with disease and suffering because this is all the consequences of bad actions that we are forced to live with. These consequences lead to such horrible things like stillborn babies. \n\nDoes God want that? no. Will the baby go to heaven? In my opinion yes. Does God use even such a horrible event like a stillborn child to bring about an even greater good? In my opinion yes. Does that mean I know what that is? no. I believe it on faith just like every other believer in God, that even though suffering and evil exists, God uses it all to bring about even greater good. An example would include Jesus being beaten and spit upon and being crucified (this would be evil and suffering) and using that event to actually bring about the salvation of all mankind to whomever will believe (which is what happened).\n\nI hope this answered your question and helps.
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I am not a bible scholar, but having been born with depression I cannot tell you how frustrating it is when people try to tell me that I choose to be this way. It is not free will! Society may aggravate it, but it did not create it. \nWhereas it is well known that bad things happen to good people & innocent children & that it is God that allows such things to happen---& that it the most difficult question. Why does God allow suffering? Is it really supposed to make us better people? But that is a whole new debate in itself...
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Because man is stubborn and abuses God's gift of free will. \n\nMany people put other gods before the True God, for example: wealth, appearance, material goods, envy, etc. Abusing these things brings us instant gratification and gives us a feeling of power.\n\nWhen we have that feeling of power, we believe that we're as good as God, or that we don't need Him. Even Jesus was tempted, but temptation isn't a sin. Giving into a temptation IS a sin. Man is weak and falls into too many traps set by Satan.\n\nIf we learned to use our free will in a more God-like manner, Satan would have far less competition.
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The issue is not that God’s goodness, God’s power, and evil’s reality can’t fit together, but that there are additional pieces to the puzzle that fit between them and hold them together.\n\n1. Free Will is a partial answer. \nFree will gives a partial answer to this question of evil and suffering. It goes like this: \n\nGod made humanity with free will. \nEvil is a result of human choices. Our first parents chose to sin. \nAs a result of sin, this world has been plunged into suffering. \nEvil, therefore, finds its origin not in the Creator, but in the creature. God receives no blame for evil—we do. We get the credit for evil because we’re the ones who chose to abandon God.\n\n2. As a result of free will, history is discontinuous. \nThere was no evil in God's original creation. But Adam had free will—he was able to sin or to not sin. And he chose to sin. And Adam's choice affected more than just himself. He represented all of humanity. Indeed, Adam represented the whole world (he had dominion over it), and when Adam was sinning, the whole world was declaring war on God. Thus even the natural world was plunged into suffering—animate as well as inanimate (the ground being cursed in Genesis 3 and thus awaiting full salvation at Christ’s return — Romans 8:19-22). This discontinuity is what Christians call the Fall. The world is good (Gen. 1), but fallen in rebellion against God. \n\nHow could God create a world full of evil and suffering? He didn’t. He created a world in which people enjoyed communion with God, intimacy with each other, perfect harmony with the creation, and everlasting life—a world with no suffering, no sin and no guilt. History is radically discontinuous. The world changed at the Fall. \n\nAnd the fact that the Bible says the world is good but fallen certainly makes sense of life. Human beings are capable of great beauty and kindness, but also great evil. Children are cute, but selfish. Adults are smart, but manipulative. The Bible accounts for both the glory and the shame of being human. We’re God’s image, but an image marred and distorted by our divorce from our Creator. \n\nThe Christian philosopher Blaise Pascal spoke of the grandeur and misery of humanity. We are capable of great things, but are always capable of pondering an existence better than the life we now have. Thus we find ourselves in misery precisely because we have the ability to contemplate a better existence. Perhaps the fact that we can imagine a life without suffering is itself a reminder deep within our human consciousness of the life we once enjoyed in loins of father Adam — a life we have lost and can only regain through the redemptive intervention of God in human history. This is a redemption that will only be complete when Jesus Christ returns.\n\n3. If you want God to eradicate evil, you’re demanding that He eradicate us. God’s alternative to eradicating evil people is to redeem them. \nRemember the words of Peter: “The Lord is not slow in keeping his promise, as some understand slowness. He is patient with you, not wanting anyone to perish, but everyone to come to repentance” (2 Peter 3:9). You blame God for evil in the world? I assure you He can take care of the problem right now — but you won’t like the way He does so. Is there evil in your heart? He can destroy your heart at any moment. The amazing thing, though, is that God doesn’t do this. He made your tongue, and you use it to speak against Him — but He is patient with you. For now. \n\nRedemption is God’s striking alternative to eradication. Rather than destroying his fallen creation, He has chosen to restore a people for Himself, a people who one day will live with Him in a restored creation (2 Peter 3:13).\n\n4. Evil is not a thing, but a privation of the good. \nThis was the point that Augustine made in the fourth century when refuting the dualistic Manichean cult out of which he had come when converted to Christ. Mani h
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because of his evil intentions and spirits.
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God allows us to choose to do whatever we want to do.  It is society, humanity and organized religion that puts boundaries on behaviours and sets moral guidelines and laws to be followed.  God could care less what we do.  God loves us regardless and since there is no hell, we will still all return to be home with God when this physical incarnation ends.
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God had created us with "desire" , it belongs to the spiritual world.\nThis is the "desire" which will lead us towards good or evil.  It needs to be educated with religion so as to refrain it from doing evil.  As we all know the Satan will be ever ready to mislead and seduce our desire to follow their evil act against the God.  It is God's intention as to set trial on each individual as how faithful they are.  This is our choice as to choose to be faithful to the God or to follow the evil, as all our soul will return to where it belongs, we have no way to run.  The choice of Heaven or Hell is solely in our own hand, The "desire" in us to believe or not and to follow either Good or Evil.
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Because God has a cruel sense of humor and likes watching us strave, suffer, and die in torture. Makes life seem meaningless more by the day doesn't it? Though their theory seems to be. We make our lives what it is... (even though I don't see how we choose for other people to kill us, abuse us, or anything.)  Which I suppose means anything that comes your way... you can either Accept it and be hurt... or Deal with it, do something about, and Hope you come out above everything.
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I have often wondered why God "lets" things happen.  However, I've thought a lot about it and God doesn't let things happen.  He cannot intervene in our lives other than to give us strength when we need it, along with a host of other virtues to help us through our rough times.  God laid down the law many years ago and stated how things would be and how they would get.  He gave us freewill to make our choices.  God does not make people do bad things, people make choices, good or bad.  He cannot give evidence that he exists.  You have to believe on faith alone, which is why he cannot interfer.  People are people, we sin, and that is why the world is the way it is.  If you believe biblical prophecy, then he will return and take the saints and leave the sinners.
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evil in essence does not exist.\nevil is merely the state of being without good