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Cheap The Problem Of Evil
The Problem of Evil - A Brief Biblical Solution
Atheists often declare that there is absolutely no acceptable answer for the problem of evil. They argue that each day, innocent children die at childbirth, from natural disasters and birth defects. They argue these children are sinless and blameless, yet they die by the thousands.

They argue that those who believe in a loving god have a lot of explaining to do and then quote Epicurus who said:

Is God ready to prevent evil, but not able? Then he is impotent.
Is he able, but not willing? He then is malevolent.
Is he both able and willing? Whence then is evil?
the problem of pain is one argument that atheists use to attempt to refute the existence of God. It does not prove, disprove or refute anything and only shows a limited understanding about what God has said concerning the problem of evil.


God is willing and in a position to prevent evil but he is neither impotent nor malevolent. Evil exists as a result of consequence of rejecting God's way. God has nowhere guaranteed that he will protect man when he chooses their own way of doing things.

Allow me to use an imperfect example to illustrate my point. Just for the sake of argument, why don't we compare the U.S. military to God (I know, I know, terrible choice of comparison). Evil dictators in different parts of the planet committing atrocious evil acts can represent the problem of evil. AMERICA military could be willing and able to "take out" these dictators but "quite often" it chooses not to. Would it be correct, merely in virtue of the fact that it decides never to act against such dictators, to call it impotent or malevolent?

The solution is "needless to say not". Just because the U.S. military could remove any evil dictator, it so chooses proves nothing about its ability or character. The same is true of God. Let me explain using what the bible teaches concerning this subject. (I needless to say recognize that atheists usually do not believe in the bible, their unbelief however, by no means makes what it says invalid, that is another issue)

The bible teaches that God created man with a free of charge will. He gave him a selection between doing things their own way or the way that God prescribed. Man chose His own way. God gave the planet earth to man, it was something special. When man spurned God's plan and chose His own way God did not take the gift back but Satan seized it when man followed his suggestion to oppose the will of God. As a result, Satan replaced man as the ruler and guardian of the earth and from then on, "all hell broke loose."

why does god allow suffering and evil of this needless to say is God's fault and He is in no way obligated to accomplish anything against evil. He gave a gift to man and man squandered it. God would be unjust to take back what He had given to man. God being infinitely good however did devote play a plan to solve the problem of evil. It is called the plan of redemption also to summarize it He sent His own Son as a man to resolve the problem of man and therefore through the sacrifice of Christ paid completely man's debt to God and through Him he was able to help man take the planet earth back from Satan. To put it simply, much evil still exists, not because God is impotent or malevolent but because not all men have surrendered to the Work of Christ on the cross.

Therefore, the basic difficulty is man's bad choice in defying God's ways, thus the solution to the problem of evil... it really is man's fault not God's. God gets the solution, but He will not eradicate evil until man universally accepts His method of doing things. Since that may never happen God has set a time limit and something day Christ will come back and set things up, as they should be.

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