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- The short answer to this dilemma is that God allowed evil into the world because He desired humans to be able to love. True love requires choice. God made humans in His own image, which includes giving humans individual agency to make moral choices. When God introduced moral choice into the world, He introduced the real potential for evil.
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What is God’s answer to evil? What does the Bible say about overcoming evil? How does evil impact personal faith and spirituality?
Sep 11, 2023 · On the other hand, they say, if God is truly great, then he must not be good, because he could stop the evil and suffering but doesn’t. Here are sixteen Bible passages that help us understand why God allows the presence of evil and suffering in the world: God has a purpose in everything he allows. 1.
- Habakkuk 1:2–4, “How long, Lord, must I call for help, but you do not listen? Or cry out to you, ‘Violence!’ but you do not save? Why do you make me look at injustice?
- Ecclesiastes 4:1–3, “Again I looked and saw all the oppression that was taking place under the sun: I saw the tears of the oppressed—and they have no comforter; power was on the side of their oppressors—and they have no comforter.
- Psalm 10:1, “Why, Lord, do you stand far off? Why do you hide yourself in times of trouble?”
- Psalm 22:1–2, “My God, my God, why have you forsaken me? Why are you so far from saving me, so far from my cries of anguish? My God, I cry out by day, but you do not answer, by night, but I find no rest.”
May 13, 2022 · The "problem of evil" is a philosophical question regarding how the following three ideas can coexist: God is almighty, God is perfectly good, and evil exists.
The so-called “problem of evil” is an argument against the existence of God that reasons along these lines: A perfectly powerful being can prevent any evil. A perfectly good being will prevent evil as far as he can.
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Jan 23, 2024 · To put it differently, once God determines the sort of being He will bring into existence, the character and nature of that being creates and limits possibilities for good or ill. When God creates other beings, they become part of the equation.
