If God is all-powerful, all-knowing, and all-good, then why is there unnecessary evil—so much unnecessary pain and suffering? Reason and commitment to intellectual integrity demand that we confront this challenging question.
An interesting thought although I think we make the mistake of assuming that our concept of good and evil is the same as the way God thinks of it. Maybe God doesn’t make such a distinction between good and evil like we do, in part because they actually see everything whereas we don’t. While I’m agnostic as to the existence of God, I have given a fair amount of thought to their existence. It’s perhaps hubristic of us to think we can know the mind of God.
Perhaps God is all good and has a reason why they allow the devil to do the things that they do. We just don’t know what it is. Doesn’t mean we’re powerless to do anything and shouldn’t try to stop evil from coming about.
An interesting thought although I think we make the mistake of assuming that our concept of good and evil is the same as the way God thinks of it. Maybe God doesn’t make such a distinction between good and evil like we do, in part because they actually see everything whereas we don’t. While I’m agnostic as to the existence of God, I have given a fair amount of thought to their existence. It’s perhaps hubristic of us to think we can know the mind of God.
Perhaps God is all good and has a reason why they allow the devil to do the things that they do. We just don’t know what it is. Doesn’t mean we’re powerless to do anything and shouldn’t try to stop evil from coming about.