Why?

 

If God is all-knowing, all-loving, omnipresent, why does God allow evil and suffering in the world?

 

That is not easy to answer, and perhaps, as with all of the great metaphysical questions, there is not final or certain answer. But we can get close.

 

 Or there are answers that we cannot comprehend. That evil and good must both exist eternally and battle each other to keep the universe in balance, and that is just how the world is made and operates. If God eliminated evil and suffering completely (God can’t do that as a limit on De’s power, but because good and evil must coexist as a condition of the world existing for suffering and evil are constituent ingredients of the cosmos just as much as enjoyment, happiness and good are constituent  ingredients of reality.), chaos would reemerge completely and that would be pure evil and destruction, total pain and suffering all the time.

 

 

Jordan Peterson and others point to natural suffering as amoral, so it just is what it is. If we can come up with scientific and medical advances to alleviate natural suffering, great, but some suffering does ennoble people and make them wiser, deeper, sadder—they have met the world at its most thoughtless, random, brutal and cruel, and good, resilient people come out of that stronger, aware of the fragility of life and circumstances, and they are not embittered and defeated by their travail, but find on through it becoming nobler, smarter, tougher, kinder and able to understand the world.

 

If we suffer too much we are degraded and shattered, and if we encounter no evil and suffering, we have not lived in reality, and have no deep ontological ground from which to grow, love and exercise our free will.

 

Beyond some point though, suffering degrades and smashes self-esteem and makes the person empty, broken and perhaps evil if they wish to act against the world to revenge their stricken state of existence.

 

Jordan also talks about how we do evil unto others, by inflicting unnecessary pain upon them.

 

Evil is part of us and part of the world, and we are to fight it decisively and replace its taken territory with goodness, light, and love.

 

 

Dennis Prager says God is not responsible for all evil and suffering, that chance and luck play a role. I agree. God can be all-powerful but will not interfere with chance and luck, even if God knows or intuits what is coming at people. God promised not to interfere too much, so we could exercise our free will, and De always keeps De’s promises to people.

 

To repeat, Evil and suffering must be allowed to exist, even if God could stop them, God will not because De promised us free will to choose to do good or evil, and liberty is a blessing and promise from Go so God stays out of the way to let good and evil spirits and good and evil people enjoy liberty to do good or do bad. God has promised not to interfere, so De will not.

 

 

It could be that God is all-knowing or mostly-knowing, or omnipresent or mostly present inside and outside of us and nature, and all-powerful or mostly powerful, but God is not a puppet-master nor do the Father or Mother want to be puppet-masters.

 

God also judges sagaciously and carefully to if someone seems evil to us and they likely are, God knows to what degree nature and nurture nudged them to choose evil over good, so this affects how De judges them for personal entrance into heaven or hell, merited destinations at the end of their lives, for De knows to what extent they are responsible for what they do or don’t do, what they should be doing and what they should not be doing.

 

And with Fate as the all-powerful all-powerless Being that rules or comprises the whole  universe, who knows why Fe allows evil and suffering to exist, but this question, unanswerable to creatures of our limited understanding, may have a reasonable explanation, known by Jesus, the Light Couple or the Dark couple, but we are privy to such divine knowledge, at least for now and must trust that the good deities exist, and that they are not responsible for evil in the world though they are very powerful..

 

Perhaps this question of omnipotent God is a dialetheism, not people have free will, and yet God is all -powerful, that evil and suffering in the world are allowed by God as a sign of De’s kindness to us (that we grow through suffering), and the necessary price paid by the world so a race of smart creatures, humans, can enjoy free will by electing to export pain and evil in the world of their own free will even knowing God will punish them for the wickedness

 

We may also have to accept this on faith that this dialetheism is true and is just how the world is.