Christianity's answer to evil 

   Creation is, essentially and irrefutably, good. It is God's handiwork. Some might puzzle, however, at the idea that God's handiwork has also brought about all the evil that can be witnessed around the world today. There is not even the prospect in the near future that unintended fires will stop killing innocent children, or well-meaning people will cease to get massacred by despotic rulers. Innocent people suffer, even on this very day, from the evil that is so pungently existent in this society.

   It's official; there is evil in this world, a world that God has single-handedly created. Should we despise God for this? Should we start to refuse to believe in the world with the realization of this? To answer the question before anything else, there is no substantiation nor grounds to conclude in rejecting or denying the world simply because there is evil in the world. God has a devised plan and purpose behind his works, and a meaning that gives us the convictional guideline to work within his conceptions. With this firmly set in our minds, it would be the correct disposition to observe what evil actually is, what our misconceptions of evil are, and why there is so much evil in society.

   What is, evil? It can be the suffering or the muddle we experience as we walk the path of life. It is something that can deter us from the Christian belief and discipline; things that interfere us with living the way God has told us to live through the scriptures. It is often unexpected, and may come in conflict with us at any time. Any argument which accepts the non-teleogical account of biological adaptions, such as Darwin's theory of natural selection, but acknowledges the presence of imperfection in the natural order is faced with the problem of evil. Whether they are taken to flow from the operation of the world ("natural evil"), to result from deliberate human cruelty ("moral evil"), or simply to correlate poorly with what seems to be deserved ("non-karmic evil"), such events give rise to basic questions about whether or not life is fair.

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        Since an omniscient god must be aware of evil, an omnipotent god could prevent evil, and a benevolent god would not tolerate evil, it should follow that there is no evil. Yet there is evil, from which atheists conclude that there is no omniscient, omnipotent, and benevolent god. What's more, people of all religion and nationality experience evil, and Christians may regard evil as a source of contrast to their beliefs. 

   The problem arises from the expectation, that the world should, being so purposeful and meaningful, be one in which goodwill and "truth prevail."(p.144) The more powerful God's significance ...

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