Topic: WHY IS THERE EVIL IN THE WORLD? - page 4. (Read 1551 times)

The best answer I can give is: God does not want a race of robots who have no free will. God allows the possibility of evil so that we may choose to worship God or not.

if we never suffer and experience evil, can we really know how beautiful paradise is?

God does not create evil, He permits it. if God does not allow evil, we will worship Him compelledly and not because we choose on our own accord

In a world where people covet money more than anything including human lives, it breeds evil in the world, it's high time that humanity stop blaming the devil for the evil that people commit in the first place,  The devil may give you a push to do something wrong but if you are easily swayed and firm, you won't go around committing such evil in the world and later blame the devil for it.q

There is evil in the world because there are people who decides and chooses to do evil decisions. Sadly, even innocent people get affected by their bad decisions.

The answer is two-fold. For one thing, God could have made a world with no evil in it. However, it would have been one of robots and puppets—creatures who could not love Him or anyone else. Love is possible only for free moral creatures; forced love is a contradiction. So, in order for the world to be morally good, it must be morally free. And free creatures are capable of free choices that bring disease, disaster and death. This is the world in which we live.

There is evil because there's good ones. They do both co-exist in this world to maintain the balance.

There is evil in the world because there are good people in the world.If there were no good people in the world then  we wouldn't be able to indicate the evils.

Evil exist because there are people who were not fortunate to live in a community were love exist. Imagine anvillage of terrorist. Their children will most likely become terrorists because they have been brainwashed since they were a child. They were fighting for something that their parents started. Also there are people who were weak in mind, they always go with the flow even if it leads to bad things.

That's for sure. Our whole life is a total test and we must pass it. This is our goal in this world.

People want to achieve their dreams and aims by any means and hence they resort to do evil . Even if they think their actions are not evil, their judgment is clouded for what they wish to achieve and hence wont accept it as evil.

There is an evil in the world because satan is there, he brings sorrow, distress or calamity, sufferings, misfortune and wrong doing. The evil is the fallen angel from heaven downcast into the world, he is the proponent of rebellion. If there is rebellion rebellion there is an evil. The presence of evil is the result of pride and greediness.

Evil exist to create balance in this world. How can we say that someone is a good person without us knowing what a bad person is. Evil exist everywhere. It is up to the person to resist the temptation. The sad thing was a lot of "good people" are just playing an act and does a lot of bad things at the background. There are a lot of people who doesn't miss a Sunday mass at Church but doesn't seem to know what good or bad is. What I noticed is that the people working at Church likes to gossip about other peoples lives. Shame.

There is no shadow without light, and black without white. Balance, contrast. No one will see good without evil, and vice versa.

God did not create evil,  in fact He create everything and it was good. He gave us free will and what we sometimes choose, evil instead of good because of the increase of wickedness the love of many become cold.. and so because of these we see the world as full of evil things instead of good.

Здравствуйте! Многие верующие обращаются к своим духовным наставникам с подобным вопросом. В ответ они часто слышат, что страдания — это воля Божья и что Бог давно уже все предопределил, в том числе беды и несчастья. Нередко можно услышать, что пути Господни неисповедимы или что Бог насылает смерть на людей — даже на маленьких детей, — забирая их к себе на небо. В Библии говорится: «Немыслимо для Бога беззаконье и для Всемогущего — несправедливость» (Иов 34:10, Тх) .
Многие негодуют на Всемогущего, поскольку думают, что именно он правит миром. Они не знают простой, но очень важной истины, которой учит Библия. Правитель этого мира — Сатана Дьявол.
 В Библии говорится: «Весь мир лежит во власти Злого» (1 Иоанна 5:19). Если помнить об этом, все становится на свои места. Этот мир отражает сущность невидимого злого духа, который «вводит в заблуждение всю обитаемую землю» (Откровение 12:9). Сатана очень злобен, лжив и жесток. Поэтому мир, который находится в его власти, тоже полон зла, лжи и жестокости. Это одна из причин, почему на земле так много страданий.
Вторая причина заключается в том, что после мятежа в Эдеме люди стали несовершенными и грешными. Об этом тоже говорилось в 3-й главе. Грешные люди склонны бороться за власть, поэтому в мире так много войн, притеснений и страданий (Екклесиаст 4:1; 8:9). И наконец, третья причина — это «время и случай» (Екклесиаст 9:11). Живя в мире, лишенном защиты Бога, люди могут пострадать из-за того, что оказались в неподходящем месте в неподходящее время.
 Как же утешительно знать, что Бог не причиняет страдания. Он не ответственен за войны, преступления, угнетение и даже стихийные бедствия, которые приносят людям столько горя.

I agree with your opinion...evil is necessary for balance...and also for diversity, so that people can choose their own way

Evil exist to balance world. Think about it this way, how can we determine the if someone is good or bad without knowing what it is. Without comparison, we won't have knowledge about things. A good example would be on how a person looks like, we can't determine if a person is beautiful if we don't know what ugly is. :-) People will always make wrong choices and it will only be EVIL if we keep on doing it. I have read an article and it convince me that most evil is done by good people who do not know that they are not good.

The freedom of choice is also one of the reasons why there are wicked people in the world. But the main reason is really why there is evil, is because of Satan. He ruled here on earth, God threw him here on earth since Jesus reigned in heaven. But sooner or later, God will destroy him and will never saturate evil forever

because we are not contented of what we had. we let the insecurities ruined our life.

Because people do not want to act in truth accordingly. Truth is where good comes from like love and respect.

Because God want us and give us free Will what to choose so choose righteous