However, many other people have a different view about the evil and suffering in the world. If God was a good God then why would thousands of innocent people die all over the world, even children who have barley even started their life yet. You could say that God does love us all, but that our lives on earth are a test for deciding if we go to heaven or hell when we die. If there were no disasters then God would not be able to tell the good people from the bad people.
Natural disasters such as earthquakes and floods would not exist if God was good. This is because they cause many people to die. Science could explain why and how they happen, but I think that it is God who makes them happen.
Also I believe that God gave people free will, which is one of the main reasons that evil and suffering exist in the world. People have their own rights, and if people didn’t have free will then murders would not happen either. But there is no explanation for the fact that natural disasters exist other than God causes them because he wants to test us before we die.
I do agree that a good God will not allow people to suffer, but I don’t think that there is such thing as an evil God either. In my opinion God has the potential to be both good and evil, but mostly he is good and all the bad things that happen in the world probably happen for a reason even if we do not know the reason why.
Finally, to conclude I do not think that God is evil. God created the world and as humans we have destroyed it, therefore this makes God angry and so he wants to put our love for him to the test to see if we really still believe in him, when things such as ‘the death of a close family member dying’ happens. Because if we still believe and trust in God after horrible situations then we will be able to go to heaven after our lives on earth are complete, and if God thinks that we are worthy enough to be able to go into his kingdom and if we are not and if we have sins then we will have to wait before we can go there. So God is good even though suffering does unfortunately exist in the world.
by
rebeccatorkoniak (student)
