God is evil

Why does God allow evil things to happen? (Gen. 1:26-31). Being all-knowing, God does knowingly create people who will be sinners, but knowledge and control are different. God created us with the gift of free will - the ability to willfully choose Him or reject Him. We choose to sin - to reject God - through willful disobedience. This rejection is a void in God's plan for us. What is evil and where did it come from? Sin is the source of evil and God directly tells us in the bible not to go against commandments. Adam and Eve (first humans) knew of know sin until eating from the tree of knowledge of good and evil as God commanded them not to. Evil did exist at the time as we hear in the story of Lucifer becoming prideful and trying to overpower God but humans did not know of Good and bad. Eve then was tempted by the serpent/Lucifer/Satan and she tempted Adam. Evil comes from sin. Example: Lucifer became prideful (one of the seven deadly sins) and started doing evil (trying to overpower God, tempted Eve. ect.) Why doesn't God stop to evil if he is so powerful? God wants us to love Him, but without free will, we could not sincerely love Him. We cannot be forced to love someone. If God created us without free will, we would be living machines and not made in His image and likeness. God permits moral evil to the extent that He gives us free will. Thanks to us, the moral evil in the world is the result of our choice. Think about it? Are you glad you get to make your on decisions and choices? Would the world be free from evil if everyone were "mindless zombies"? The answer is yes. The world would be free from evil if God controlled every step of our path because evil does not exist, it is the absence of good, so if everything was good then nothing would be evil. If God is Good why is there pain, suffering, and hardships? Pain and suffering comes from a result of sin that you or another person has done. When Adam and Eve sinned they were put out of the garden where the endured pain and suffering. Cain bared the mark for killing his brother Able. Sampson lost his strength due to giving in to Delilah and telling her his secret as God commanded him not to. Jonah was swallowed by a giant fish because he refused to preach to the people of Nineveh. Doesn't innocent people suffer everyday? Sadly, yes. Innocent babies lives are stopped in a blink of an eye. (Abortions) People are put in jail for expressing religious freedom. (Middle East; China; ect. lack of Freedom of religion) Women are raped for refusing to follow a dress code. (middle east lack of women's rights) and awful disastrous things happen everyday. However, these things do not happen because God is Evil but because Satan is evil and Satan promotes sin which destroys good and the absence of good is again, evil. Why is God good? Although God’s goodness is unfolded in all that He is and all that He does, the Bible reveals some specific expressions of it. For one, it is demonstrated in His creation. Seven times in Genesis God said that what He made was good (Genesis 1:4,10,12,18,21,25,31). The final statement sums it up: “And God saw all that He had made, and behold, it was very good” (Genesis 1:31). No one can observe the grandeur of God’s handiwork and deny that it is good. Even though man has managed to mar it considerably, it was good the way God made it and it still reflects that goodness: blue skies studded with fluffy white clouds by day and spangled with sparkling bright stars at night; glistening snow-covered mountain peaks; fields and trees with infinitely varied shades of green and gold; brilliant, multicolored flowers with lovely fragrances. There is no end to the goodness we enjoy in God’s creation: “the earth is full of the goodness of the LORD” (Psalm 33:5 KJV). The beauty of God’s earth reminds us of His goodness. Jesus said He makes the sun rise on the evil as well as on the good, and sends the rain on the unrighteous as well as on the righteous (Matthew 5:45). He deals bountifully and kindly even with ungrateful and wicked men (Luke 6:35). Paul said in a message to a group of unbelievers at Lystra, “He did good and gave you rains from heaven and fruitful seasons, satisfying your hearts with good and gladness” (Acts 14:17). The difference between Gods goodness and humans goodness is we think goodness means we should be happy all the time when in reality, Gods goodness is where everyone has a choice and a right to be an individual and when you learn where Gods true Good goodness is (John 3:16) that is when you are really "happy". God gave his son Jesus to be killed by the people he put on this earth to save them for doing so. If he never did anything but that, that would be okay because that is all we need to save us from hell. You wake up every morning because God is good, not because he is evil.