God exists.

If God exists there should be no evil. A divine entity such as God would be able to stop all evil. However, if God was allowing evil to happen does that not make God evil? If that is true the definition of God cited in round one by my opponent is false. God would no longer be all good. In order to understand the existence of evil one must first understand the nature of God and humanity. As there has been no recent interview with God it is hard to know who he is outside of reading the Bible and theologians. The Christian apologist St Thomas Aquinas said, "Nothing which implies contradiction falls under the omnipotence of God" (Summa Theologica, I a, xxv, 4). This statement says that God can not contradict himself otherwise he is not God. He created humanity with the choice to love or to hate. How is this possible? If God dose not exist can morals exist? There would be no right or wrong. There would be no good in the world either. Everyone could choose to kill or steal and would have no reason to think of anyone but their own survival. The fact that I have the ability to choose to open the door for someone or to rob them is proof that we have free will to choose good and evil. God is all good can not force anyone to be good or to be bad. Martian Luther said it best, "Now by "necessity" I do not mean " compulsorily" " a man without the Spirit of God does not do evil against his will, under pressure, as though he were taken by the scruff of his neck and dragged into it, like a thief or footpad being dragged off against his will to do punishment; but he does it spontaneously and voluntarily." (Martin Luther, "The Bondage of the Will"). Serial killers baffle studies as they seem to have no logical reason for their crimes. According to a behavioral study done by the FBI, "The majority of serial killers are not reclusive, social misfits who live alone. They are not monsters and may not appear strange. Many serial killers hide in plain sight within their communities. Serial murderers often have families and homes, are gainfully employed, and appear to be normal members of the community." (Robert J. Morton, Serial Murder Multi-Disciplinary Perspectives for Investigators, p.3). Unlike the serial killers, God can not live two separate lives. He can not be creating evil or permitting and at the same time be all good. There has to be a force other than God that is creating evil. God allowing evil to happen is not the same as creating it. Many people admit the is a good force out there. However, an evil force is not often contemplated. Just as there are many Gods of peace and goodness there are also Gods of death and evil. This is a deep and complex discussion and I will try and simplify it. Are we living in world of just death and misery that has always been? Or has the world at one point been all good? The fact that we feel joy when we get our first pet and horrible sadness when they die says that this is not natural. If we live in a world where nothing is good than I could careless if my pet dies. Why do we have a natural tendency to cry when someone we love dies? Why are these emotions even in existence? If we live in a world where God does not exist we should not feel guilt. One can not explain why we feel guilty. There is no guilt in natural selection. It can not have been a recent evolution of the human mind as we didn"t just start to feel these emotions from evolving. We have always felt these things but there is no rational explanation for the emotion outside of God. An interesting point to make is why do people get offended when they feel like their wrongs are being pointed out? If God does not exist there should be no shame or care of what others say and do. I myself feel anger and shame when someone points out something I know I should be doing right. Why is there something I know I should be doing right? That impulse should not exist in a world of evil because what is right? C.S. Lewis says in his book "Mere Christianity", "If the whole universe has no meaning, we should never have found out that it has no meaning: just as, if there were no light in the universe and therefore no creatures with eyes, we should never know it was dark. Dark would be without meaning." (P.23) Another quote from Lindsley says, ""Yet, if evil was real, then there must be an absolute standard by which it was known to be evil and an absolute good by which evil could be distinguished from good. Where could we get this infinite reference point, this fixed point above all our personal and cultural bias? Did that not demand a God as an adequate basis for absolute good?" (P.1) This quote a commentary on the Christian Theologian C.S. Lewis who also wrote the Chronicles of Narnia. Just like the U.S. Constitution, there has to be an absolute good standard to define evil. If there is no standard how can we measure what is evil? Just looking at how much controversy there is about abortion shows the conflict. One side says it"s no big deal it is not evil the other says it is murder. Looking at a world where God does not exist there should be no opposition to abortion let alone an argument against abortion. The failure of International Law to prevent conflicts and disputes thought modern history shows laws created by humans have very little effect. China decided to build islands in the South China sea. To China what they were doing was right but to everyone else it was a breach of International Law. This is just a simple example of of humanity trying to impose morals that they can not police. Any order imposed by humanity never really lasts. Is this evidence that there is no God? It is, if one believes that God is creating evil so therefore he can not exist. But I again go back to the issue of free choice. If God is viewed from this point of thinking than all the evil in the world is the natural result of nations only caring for their self interest and survival. If the theory of the survival of the fittest is to be believed than we should have never developed the capacity for guilt, pity, or giving. We should not care if one nation dominates the globe as they were the strongest and so they are better. There is no place for guilt or pity for others as there would be no need for these emotions. Since we have emotions that drive us to help others it shows that evil is not natural. No one would argue that it is unnatural to be happy. I am not trying to convert anyone that is not the point of this debate. I believe in free will and choice. It is honestly hard to explain a rational origin of evil without using the Bible. I am not preaching as I am not a pastor. I am merely making the case that in order to measure evil there must be a stable standard to define it. That our sense of right, wrong do not naturally fit in a world of evil so they might have come from somewhere else. With this concept of evil there is the reasonable possibility for God to exist. Lindsley, Art. 2017. Cslewisinstitute.Org. http://www.cslewisinstitute.org.... Douglas Gates, The Diplomat. 2017. "International Law Is Under Siege In The South China Sea". The Diplomat. https://thediplomat.com....