>>21068363Suppose that you are God and create humans, a decision everyone is happy about. Then you will be met with the issue of how to treat them. You can't "reward" or "punish" them because they obviously have done nothing till then to deserve either. So the solution was to grant a mix of good and evil to their souls, then send them to Earth to be tested and let them decide their own fates.
This part is crucial: humans need to be capable of doing both right and wrong in order to be tested. (Sadly a lot of people seem to miss this fact. They will take the good coming from others as granted, but when they are subjected to evil they act shocked and disgruntled as if humans weren't endowed with both qualities!)
So bear this all in mind and understand: God wouldn't create humans if He didn't know what to do with them, and He wouldn't know what to do with them without testing them. In other words, us humans wouldn't exist if the prospect of evil wasn't possible.
...But there's also a second reason. I want you to imagine a world where God intervenes to prevent every innocent suffering, and how absurd that would be.
A person attempts suicide by jumping down but gravity stops working halfway through. A man recklessly drives at 200km/h but somehow always avoids crashing terribly. A poor family never starves out even though they have been missing food for an entire year. A sunk ship's passengers all make it alive because they can't get drowned. Two opposing armies can't harm each other because their guns jam all the time. A girl gets her forced wedding disrupted by sudden bolts of lightening.
Is that really the world you expect to live in? Surely God does get involved to prevent a lot of suffering, but a lot more are simply unavoidable.
Bottom line is, as long as life persists there will be evil - as one of them can't exist without the other. So a better question would be: is all this suffering worth it in the end? Perhaps, if you believe in an eternal afterlife...
