WHY IS THERE SO MANY EVIL IN THE WORLD?

Why?
This is the question we ask ourselves when we hear about the misfortunes and calamities in the world. We are all concerned about why there is so much hatred and suffering in the world. Similar questions were asked even by people who had strong faith, for example, the prophet Habakkuk.

God hates evil and suffering even more than we do. Then why is there so much evil in the world? The answer is in the Bible.

Why do people suffer?
1.
Many priests and religious leaders claim that people suffer because this is the will of God.
Others believe that God decides in advance what misfortunes will happen in a person's life.
Still others think that people (including children) are dying because God takes them to his heaven. But that's a lie! Job 34:10 says, "...it is unthinkable for the true God to act wickedly, for the Almighty to do wrong!"

People believe that God is to blame for all bad things. After all, it is he who rules the world. But 1 John 5: 19 says "... the whole world is lying in the power of the wicked one." And the Evil (Satan) is very cruel, because of his influence, people also become cruel.

2.
Another reason is that when Adam and Eve sinned, they stopped being perfect and passed on sin to their descendants - you and me. Sin is another cause of unhappiness. Because of their sinfulness, people compete with each other, fight for power, fight, oppress each other ... It is rightly said in Ec 8: 9 "...during the time that man has dominated man to his harm."

3.
Another cause of unhappiness is "time and chance." This means that a person can get into trouble simply by being in the wrong place at the wrong time.

God is not guilty of people committing crimes, fighting and oppressing each other. Nor is it His fault that earthquakes, hurricanes, floods occur ...

Why does God allow us to suffer?

In the Garden of Eden, Satan deceived Adam and Eve and declared that God was a bad ruler. Satan wanted to convince people that he (Satan) will rule better than Jehovah and people do not need God. The first people believed Satan, they thought that they themselves would decide what is good and what is bad.

Jehovah did not begin to destroy the rebels. He acted wiser. God gave Satan time to prove that he was right. God gave time to people so that they could prove that they can live and manage themselves well without Him.

For thousands of years people have tried to control themselves, but they have not been able to do it well. And it became clear that Satan is a liar and people cannot successfully rule each other without the help of God. As Jeremiah 10:23 says, "I well know, O Jehovah, that man's way does not belong to him. It does not belong to man who is walking even to direct his step."
 

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I really like people who show self-control and patience in everything. Respect!

Good & Evil are subjective and relative to the observer.
Misfortune is based on an assumption.
Only people are good or evil and none are 100% good or evil.
Everyone has the capacity to feel love or hate. Its a choice.

Yes, that's right.
I completely agree with you.

I agree with you 100%

Which is the most Evil nation on the earth?

John3) 16. .19. And this is the condemnation, that light is come into the world, and men loved darkness rather than light, because their deeds were evil.
20. For every one that doeth evil hateth the light, neither cometh to the light, lest his deeds should be reproved. 21. But he that doeth truth cometh to the light, that his deeds may be made manifest, that they are wrought in God.

Evil was in the Garden of Eden and deceived Man.


The devil is deceiving people until they come to
the Light of Knowing God personly for themselves.

In Future the devil will be bound forever, God will do it.

Mankind is created in the image of God. God is the ultimate free will and the infinite. We as humans cannot posses the infinite within ourselves. But we do posses free will. This is how we are in God's image. God spoke the word and created life and the rest and said it was good.

Nihilism is a hatred of life, rejection of reality and lies. This is the foundation of all the evil based religions and cults of today. Materialists, socialists, communists, environmentalists and the rest of the clowns running around.

Yes, I thought about becoming a priest when I put myself back together with chewing gum and rubber bands. Also thought about formalizing my own religion recognize by the law.

Agree with you. There are no good or bad nations. All nations have good and bad people.

Yes, that's right. God will destroy evil and everything connected with it: disease, poverty, hunger, injustice, crime ...
And the world will be completely different. The way God intended it.


Yes, humans are created in the image and likeness of God. Right.
And God has always been, He has no beginning and will not have an end.
Therefore, creating man, God endowed him with the ability to live forever. And it is not God's fault that man has lost this ability. The quote from Ecclesiastes 3:11 in the New World translation: "... he has even put eternity in their heart ...".

Why do people want to stay young for a long time, not get sick and live forever? Where did they get this desire?

Because God created them for eternal life, not for life in 70-80 years.
 

According to the Bible, humanity has existed for 6,000 years.
And all these years evil has existed side by side - wars, crimes, hunger, poverty, disease, injustice ...

People have created many organizations to deal with these problems. But they are not decreasing. On the contrary, there are more of them. It turns out that people have not been able to solve these problems for so many years.

Why?
But who can? Or will people always live side by side with evil?

The possibilities of people are limited. And the possibilities of God have no boundaries, He is Almighty.

And it turns out that evil can only stop the Kingdom of God and only it can solve all the problems of people.
 

timothy 3) 3 But mark this: There will be terrible times in the last days. 2 People will be lovers of themselves, lovers of money, boastful, proud, abusive, disobedient to their parents, ungrateful, unholy, 3 without love, unforgiving, slanderous, without self-control, brutal, not lovers of the good, 4 treacherous, rash, conceited, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God— 5 having a form of godliness but denying its power. Have nothing to do with such people.

why are people surprised, its supposed to happen.

Yes, that's right. You have chosen a good verse.
This is one of the signs of the presence of Christ.
And this verse tells what kind of people will be in the last days.

People are surprised because they do not notice what is happening around them. They are absorbed in material cares, entertainment and do not think about spiritual matters.

I noticed there was no interest to identify the wicked nations of this world.
The world is so very evil, because God gave it to Satan and he is ruling the world together with the wicked nations of the earth. Just ask yourself which nation(s) contol everything.

This is why Satan was tempting Christ to serve him, in return for dominion over the world, because God gave rulership to Satan and Christ is waiting for the Father to take it back. [Job 9:24] the earth is given into the hand of the wicked..

So,since the wicked are ruling the earth, evils have multiplied and will continue until God takes back the world, and gives it to His son to rule in righteousness.

[Proverb 29:2] When the righteous are in authority, the people rejoice: but when the wicked beareth rule, the people mourn.

[Isaiah 24:4] The earth mourneth and fadeth away, the world languisheth and fadeth away, the haugthy people of the earth do languish.

Jehovah God created a wonderful world: “After that God saw everything he had made, and look! it was very good.” - Genesis 1:31 (New World Translation).

The world became terrible because the first people did not obey God, but obeyed Satan.

Yes, Satan rules the world. But why?

In Eden, Satan accused God of being a bad ruler. And God gave Satan time to prove and show that he is a better ruler than God. And we can all see the results of Satan's rule.

Also, God gave people the time and opportunity to show that they can do without God. We can see what the life of people has become without a Creator.

But this will all be over soon.
 

Few months ago I posted a topic with the question what the Holy Bible is about
To whom was it written, and why. Nobody could give the answer, whereas it's obvious that all books have a title and we should be able to summarise the topic of any book, before having an indepth discussion.

Paul Thagard, Ph.D., a Canadian philosopher answered in details Why is there Evils.
Some intense form of evil;
Pedophilia. The causes of pedophilia, include brain defects, psychological problems with impulse control, and past history of being abused as a child.
Psychopaths, who routinely engage in manipulative, self-serving behaviors with no regard for others. Simon Baron-Cohen describes psychopaths as having zero degrees of empathy because of neural deficits in brain areas.
Evil actions can also have social causes. Peoples’ mental states are intensely influenced by emotional communication from others, and groups can end up engaging in more risky behaviors than the individuals would normally do on their own. Authority figures giving orders can produce behaviors in people that they later consider inappropriate, as in the famous Milgram experiments where participants agreed to give intense electric shocks to learners.

We must not get carried away by lesser evil. The holy bible tells us what John saw when he was in the spirit, and visited by Christ:

[Rev. 13:13] And he doeth great wonders, so that he maketh fire come down from heaven on the earth in the sight off men.

In other words, this NATION (not person), caused great evil and sorrow, not seen before, to another nation on earth, with fire coming down from the sky, and the whole earth knows about it, why it was a miracle in the eyes of the nations. John had never saw an Atom Bom before, and to the best of his abilities, he explained what he saw.

So, to recap... great evil is caused by powerful NATIONS, and the lesser evils come from individuals with diabolical minds.

The Ozon layer is depleted. Who has done this? Shall we blame the nations or shall we look for a nation to stop this? Who will?

That would be Suriname or maybe Guyana.