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Why doesn't God end all evil immediately?
To end evil God would have to destroy the cause of evil – people. In
His good plan for people (see below), it is therefore not good to end
all evil immediately.
Why doesn't God make people unable to cause suffering?
To do that, God would have to take away our ability to choose. But
choice – free will – is a good thing. In order to love, you must be
able to choose to love. Forced love is not love. So to have a universe
that included love,
God had to make us with choice, which includes the choice not to love
– and that makes sin, evil, pain and suffering possible.
Why does God allow natural disaster and disease?
It is a part of a sinful world. God lowered the perfection of creation
(from the perfect garden of Eden) to match the spiritual state of those
who live here (Romans 8:20-22).
God graciously has sustained people on this earth (allowing them to
reproduce, to develop governments and systems to deal with the effects
of sin).
He has graciously sustained the fallen creation (providing sun and rain
for food to sustain life – Colossians 1:17).
But the natural effect of a fallen creation is that even good things can
have evil byproducts (water can drown someone; gravity can kill someone;
lightening can burn and kill).
Why doesn't God stop evil acts that cause innocent people to suffer?
Why doesn't God miraculously intervene to stop evil acts if He is
all-loving and all-powerful?
Why doesn't He catch the drunk driver's car that is going to crash into
a bus? Why doesn't He deflect the murderer's bullets? The person asking
doesn't actually want God to stop all their evil acts.
They don't want to be invisibly gagged every time they're about to say
something hurtful; they don't want to stub their toe when they try to
kick the dog.
They just think it would be good if God stopped certain evil acts or
just the evil acts of others. But that would make life impossible. There
would be no freedoms, no regularity and no personal responsibility.
Why doesn't God let us choose to get out of this suffering?
The answer is that He does. That is the
gracious, loving response of God to the evil condition of this sinful
world.
A. God has provided for personal salvation – the promise of eternal
life in heaven where there is no suffering (Revelation 21:4). One must
simply put his trust in the payment for sin God provided through
Christ's death on the cross (John 3:16-18; Acts 10:38-43: etc.).
B. God has provided for the earth's redemption
(Romans 8:18-23; 2 Peter 3:10,13; Revelation 21:1)
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