The answer is really simple if you think about it. Ever played the sims, if you have you have put the sims in a room full of couches and fire places or you have put them in a pool then took the ladder way. As your sim burned or drowned you laughed your ass off. If we are created in gods image then he must do the same. even somthing as building a house of cards, when your done you knock it down.

i donjt think it's that.. i think it is just because the univerese is so volitile and "god" isnt going to sit there and try and protect every frigin thing out there.

i mean really alot of stuff can be avoided.

like if you build a nice house and a tornado comes and blows it away. now hey shit happened rights, doesnt mean itll happen twice, But it does. so you have 1 of two options build another house or move.... most people tend to do the one that makes least sense.

If you are a believing christian than you will realise the whole free will thing. What's the point of giving someone life but making it perfect, It gives you nothing to do or strive for. Life would be pretty fucking *****g if you didn't have to work for anything.

I don't think this question can be answered in one thread.

Anyone genuinly interested, which would be about 1% of the site, could read C.S. Lewis' book the problem of pain.

The reason that there is bad if there is a god is because god stated that he wanted to give us free will. The choice to do good or bad.

Although, I admit I do laugh when my sims catch on fire. Lol.

But free will only explains why people hurt others. "Evil" also exists because we interpret events as bad (is taking candy from a kid bad, or is the mother saving him from obesity/malnutrition/cavities?) and because events have both positive and negative effects (a freezing winter kills people, but also kills insects that would ruin crops)

There is evil because adam and eve ate from the tree of knowledge, apparently (im an atheist)

Why? Because, originally, there wasn't anything bad, and then god got bored.

I the garden of Eden, God gave Adam and Eve one single rule to follow : don't eat from the tree of knowledge. But they did, and god punished us with mortality, disease, pestilence, and shit like that.

Except for love.