Finally when he faced God in the end of the book, he put his hand over his mouth and realized God knew better than he. The part that I struggle with is that God just knows so much more than we do. When the Bible says it pleased the Lord to bruise His son, that s a hard thing to understand. But God saw that by bruising Jesus so much good could happen that it pleased Him to do that. I m just glad in the ultimate scheme of things that God is wise, just, good, and makes good judgments and that I can trust Him to do that even though sometimes they re hard to understand.
Natural evil includes diseases and natural catastrophes and things like that.
They are all ultimately related to the sin of mankind, the sinfulness of mankind. Back in the Garden, God created everything perfect until we sinned. That s the power of our sin. The creation waits in eager expectation for the sons of God to be revealed. For the creation was subjected to frustration, not by its own choice, but by the will of the one who subjected it, in hope that the creation itself will be liberated from its bondage to decay and brought into the glorious freedom of the children of God.