Evil And Suffering Research Paper

Evil and Suffering

For this assignment, I’ve chosen to write about Evil and Suffering. This topic is particularly interesting to me because I believe in the existence of Evil and God. I believe that some Evil and Suffering is not the work of God. The problem of evil is that people have made a choice to produce suffering on other people. And the people who suffer question the existence of God.

The existence of evil and suffering such as death, pain, or disasters are not alone the work of all-loving, omnipotent, and omniscient God. “The Lord is gracious and compassionate, slow to anger and rich in love” (Psalm 145:8). However, God can allow all the suffering that we see today. If the suffering is caused by moral agents, god does not intervene to stop it because that would violate the principle of free will. For example, if an individual commits a crime and causes a lot of suffering on the victim’s family, God is not going to prevent it. If God intervenes, the criminal would not be considered as evil because the criminal’s action would be prevented each time. If God

However, since God is all loving, he is not intentionally provoking disasters. Nature has its own existence also and the disasters are part of that existence. God could prevent natural evil, but that would be impeding the normal course of nature. Additionally, if god prevents natural disasters, what would god gain? If God prevents an earthquake and saves millions of people, those people would never know that they have been saved by God. As you can see, if god prevents every disaster and every pain, no one would be grateful. Perhaps, god could save some people who had been good and have not committed sins. For example, god punished the Egyptians by drying the sea and the rivers, and making unproductive lands; the sinners who turned against god starved to death and the good people who repented were saved (Driskell,