Explain why the existence of evil and suffering may cause problems for people wh

Question:if there is a God why does he allow pain and suffering, a God could stop all things, and if there is evil and suffering that is totally against what God is suppose to be about, he/she/it could stop it if they wanted to that makes God cruel and unjust, so that is the problem you see?

Best Answer - Chosen by Asker: if there is a God why does he allow pain and suffering, a God could stop all things, and if there is evil and suffering that is totally against what God is suppose to be about, he/she/it could stop it if they wanted to that makes God cruel and unjust, so that is the problem you see?

Evil and suffering would cause problems for anyone whether they believe in God or not what a strange question are you saying those who don't believe in God are immune to evil and suffering

Actually, it doesn't. Christians know, acknowledge and have many different ways of adapting to and reconciling with the "evil and suffering" in the world......

Well my friend, I`am kind of like Holly, what a strange question. Looking past that, I`ll say your having a problem with temptation. You know whats right!

On the contrary, I believe the concept of God has come up and caught up mainly because faith is one of the reasonably effective ways to cushion one mentally from various kinds of pain, suffering and evil and keep hopes alive.

The problem is that believers in the Abrahamic religions (Judaism, Christianity and Islam) must reconcile an omnipotent, all good creator god with the existence of evil. There are two main problems presented: If the omniscient god created all that exists, then is he not the creator of evil, and did he not recognize that he was doing so? If he is omnipotent and good, why has he not defeated evil? Many explanations are offered - man's free will to choose wrongly and the notion of the process of life being a test one must pass to win something very great are among them.

Man, this is an old question. I've lost track of how many times I've heard this one in philosophy and theology talks or classes. The general argument usually goes like this:

The existence of God is denied by the very nature of existence, most especially the advent of the entity known as "Evil." The existence of Evil as we understand it is a direct contradiction to at least one of the three assumed aspects of God.

The assumed aspects are:
-Omnipotence (infinite knowledge)
-Omnipresence (infinite presence; all powerful)
-Omnivirtutis (infinite moral goodness)

The argument goes as such:

If God is all knowing, then Evil cannot exist without his knowledge. So Evil cannot have been created without him knowing it and Evil cannot hide from Him

If God is all present and all-powerful, then Evil can only exist if God chooses not to destroy it. Thus Evil continues to exist because God has not deigned to destroy it.

Lastly, if God is infinitely morally good, then He cannot allow Evil to exist, because that would violate a totally good morallity.

I have never heard a disagreement about the three assumed aspects of God; by default He must be all knowing, all caring, and all powerful, else He could not be God. This being assumed true, Evil cannot possibly exist as it does as defined by man.

To do so, Evil must be one of the following:
-More powerful than God
-Unknown to God
-Morally correct to God

So which is it: is God weak, blind, or Evil? By definition he cannot be any of these things and still be God.

The general answer to this argument is usually something like the following:
-He has a plan
-He knows better than we do (i.e. man is flawed, not God)
-He works in mysterious ways
-Evil is a test of man

There are quite a few variations on this argument as well, but that's a general gist. These rebuttals such as they are do not address the argument itself. They seek to circumvent the logic by giving statements that cannot be proven and are effectively inarguable They assume that man is entirely incapable of understanding an entity that would fit the role of God.

The issue with using this assumption as a defense is that the rebutter essentially admits that they have no idea what they are talking about. If man cannot understand God, then the arguer has no idea what-so-ever how God operates, or what God would actually be like. They cannot then argue for his existence because they have just admitted to not knowing anything about Him.

The bottom line: no one living today has any idea what God is like if He exists, nor do they have any understanding of the concept beyond what we can guess. No one is right, nor will they ever be.

And The Bible is hardly a defense, because regardless of what you believe, the book was written by men, and we've already seen that by their own argument Man is flawed. Nothing then made by a flawed being can be totally free of flaws.

The demand a world of checks and balances; of fairness; of compassion for the rightious and punishment to the evil. Only thing is, real life don't work that way.

If one "knew" God, they wouldn't have any problems with these things. You see, in "God"'s eyes everything is perfect...there isn't one thing about Creation or it's evolving that isn't very much perfect...All of it serves purpose just perfectly.

Never judge another's situation...nor their choices of their matters...they have equal opportunity to become of their challenges, just as others are provided opportunity to become of witnessing them...and visa versa. Evil & suffering are simply 2 of the multitudes of parameters of choice.

It's all good...See??? And thru our little trips away from Home, does "God" know Himself as part of the All...He reaps of every tear, every giggle, every hug, & every hit...every truth & every lie, every birth, & every death...this is where we "reflect" ourselves to as we "become" of the experiences that create these things...and each is perfectly wonderful as they play their parts in the scheme of it all...this is called "manna".

It's quite an adventure we are on...Good Journey!!!

every one has some evil in them its usually why they judge people