If God is All Powerful, Why Must Evil and Suffering Exist in the World?

[Mirch]

Re: If God is All Powerful, Why Must Evil and Suffering Exist in the World?

@La_Parisienne

good question in the thread name. I have not read the article on purpose, since I want to try and answer it myself without getting prejudiced.

• If God is All Powerful, Why Must Evil and Suffering Exist in the World?

Let us stipulate and accept God exists.
Let is stipulate and accept there exists evil & suffering.

Then only three possibilities exist:

1. God is not powerful enough to prevent evil & suffering OR
2. God does not want to prevent evil & suffering OR
3. What we think is evil and suffering is not evil & suffering by God’s definition

More seriously speaking, what Hinduism taught me makes a lot of sense here…which is:

god gave human beings the ability to discriminate between good and bad. If you don’t use that faculty and do something bad you do evil which brings suffering sooner or later depending upon the type of evil.

for example, if you see a flame and move your finger away from it because your ability to discriminate tells you that poking your finger on th flame is not good and so bad, you’ll do fine. No evil done, no suffering.

You go and poke your finger at the flame for whatever reason (showing of to gf = vanity) you’re going to get burn and suffering results, immediately.

Or you use to flame to light up your cigarette - it gives you immediate pleasure but eventually catches up with you as cancer or lung disease or emphysema etc

but instead you use the flame to light a fireplace in cold or to light a candle for light or to cook - good things occur, right?

in all this, God is the same, the flame is the same. your actions are the only variable.

hence ultimately, it is about you, not God.

It does not answer the suffering part then , why do , earthquakes , tornadoes , epidemics kill indiscriminately ? Why would a baby die of a disease ?