You ask yourself, “How can a loving God exist when there is so much suffering in the world?”
There are starving children all over the world. Evil things happen every day. People are born on sidewalks, live on sidewalks, and die on sidewalks. These terrible things go on every day and God is the only one that is not powerless to stop them. Right? WRONG.
You ask, “How can God (if He exists) let these things go on?” Well, ask yourself the same question. “If I am a loving, caring, compassionate individual, how can I call myself such when I do nothing to stop hunger, nothing to stop homelessness, and nothing to stop violence?” Well, we all exist, and 99% of us do nothing.
God has equipped each of us to deal with worldly life. Some of us are gifted with compassion, some of us with intelligence, some of us with monetary wealth. If you are sitting at a computer and you’ve made it past “Starving Children,” you have been gifted with all three. Now, instead of saying to yourself, “I don’t believe that God exists because evil also exists,” stop passing the blame for your complacency. We have all committed acts of evil that we would rather not speak out loud, and we have no one to blame but ourselves. God also gifts us with the ability to make choices. We choose to commit acts of violence and evil as much as we choose to sit on our couch or at our computer and pretend to feel compassion for other people. Get up and do something for the world instead resting on your “deism” or “atheism” or “agnosticism” or “nihilism” or whatever else you label yourself so that you don’t have to feel guilty.
