Why Does God Allow Natural Evil?
- Dan Best
- Oct 7, 2022
- 1 min read
It's one of the oldest questions: Why would a good and powerful God allow suffering?
The typical Christian answer: Because God values free will. He didn't want to create a bunch of robots. So he gave humans the free will to choose to do good or do evil.
And that's a pretty good answer! I think it works.
But then the follow-up question: what about the suffering that isn't caused by humans? All the things caused by nature: pandemics, hurricanes, forest fires?
That's a really tough one. We may never find a fully satisfying answer to it this side of heaven. That being said, I was listening to an episode of the "Cold-Case Christianity" podcast on this topic and I really appreciated what he had to say.
To get straight to this topic skip about halfway into the episode:
"Does The Existence Of Natural Evil Disprove The Existence Of God?" - November 10, 2021
