Why Does Evil Exist?

Why does God allow pain and suffering?  If He is a loving God as scripture says He is why does He allow, murder, rape, incest, child abuse and death?  If He is all knowing and all powerful why does He allow evil to exist?  This question is often asked by unbelievers because they don’t understand that God didn’t create sin. Man created sin.   God created man to live in paradise with Him.  He didn’t create robots but instead gave us freedom of choice and in doing so we chose to sin and through that sin suffering entered the world. 

Sin and chaos will continue to increase as the second coming of Christ draws near.  The tempter, the liar, the author of sin is hard at work making our world a place where evil is good and wrong is right and Jesus is irrelevant.  The world wants us to believe that all religions lead to heaven.  If you’re “good enough” you will go to heaven when you die seems to be the prevailing belief.  Some churches don’t even teach Christ crucified because it might offend someone.    But the bible is clear:  There is only one way to heaven and that is by professing faith in the Son of God, Jesus Christ. 

Our world will continue to grow darker and darker until the glorious return of Christ.  We will continue to see an increase in tolerance towards sin and intolerance towards Christian faith and beliefs.  It has already begun and it is only going to get worse.  Pain and suffering is part of life because man chose to sin.  But joy and contentment is also part of life for the believer.  Only Christ can give us the inner peace and comfort our souls crave.  Even when our world bottoms out we have the hope and the joy of knowing our Savior is with us and in the end everything is going to be alright. 

Scripture

“But you must not eat from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, for when you eat of it you will surely die”  Genesis 2:17

But those who suffer He delivers in their suffering; He speaks to them in their affliction.  Job 36:15

"Glory to God in the highest, and on earth peace to men on whom his favor rests."  Luke 2:14