Why does God allow evil to exist?

Why does God allow evil to exist?

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God is made of infinite goodness and is incapable of evil so we have to have faith that what we deem evil is necessary for God's plan

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>MUH FREE WILL

god is indifferent

Unless evil doesn't exist and only we define what evil is. Not if this matters and it's just a game.

Because He is evil. Birth is a punishment.

Gods don't exist.

daily reminder that God is a reply to the question of evil, and not the reason it was posed.

if the world is so filled with evil - why ought we go on.

suffering will always outweigh happiness.
ideals which would give meaning can never be achieved.

It makes the good that much sweeter

What would be the point if there was no evil?

You can find meaning in suffering it isn't all bad

Why does evil allow God to exist?

short sweet and to the point

t. never met anyone with PTSD

So that we the chosen few may know it; understand it and grow as souls.

how do you know what good is if there's no evil?

>suffering will always outweigh happiness.
>ideals which would give meaning can never be achieved.
Even if it's true, we can still try.

>suffering will always outweigh happiness
how do you know? how can you measure that?

>*licks lips*
which God are you referring to?

for moral evil:
1. God gave us free will.
2. People choose good or evil with this free will.
3. God wants us to love Him sincerely.
4. If God did not give us free will, we could not love Him sincerely.
5. Therefore God allows moral evil so that we may do good and love Him sincerely.

One from neither past or present religions, this God cannot be defined by a number to say there is one or one hundred would be both equally wrong because you have then added human limitations to this god

This is actually a legitimate question that monotheists have no answer for.

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God, written with capital G, conventionally refers to the christian god.

There's no reason to love God sincerely on threat of hell in the afterlife.

I already answered this question for you in another thread. You posted the smug Sam picture both times, didn't you?

Because otherwise humans wouldn't exist.

>cannot be defined by a number
>One from neither past or present
>One from neither
>One

>implying human language in any form can convey what God is

He's not actually looking for an answer, he's just being smug for no reason like Sam. If you couldn't tell.

This is embarrassing to ask - but does Plato address these types of questions in his dialogs? I am halfway through Edith Hamilton’s Mythology - starting with the Greeks and all that, just wondering what lies ahead.

God only proposes, never imposes. And who sends men to Hell? God or the men who rejected eternal life? Answer: it is man who chooses to go to Heaven or Hell. God fulfills his unfortunate request.

but what is good outside of objectivity?

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Read more Witty (or Kant). Language cannot tell the mystical but it can show it. Showing is inherent to language. This is how negative theology works.

Only one God does

Evil doesn't exist.

As another user said in a different thread "adversity is the grindstone in which a man's character is honed."

My mistake but you could easily remove that one and there would be no mistake with the same meaning. I see no flaw in this.

It's not about achievement.

"One must imagine Sisyphus happy."