The Quick And Easy Guide to GOD
Evil Exists
Can God Prevent Evil?
NO: Then God is not all powerful.
YES:
Does God know about all the Evil?
NO: Then God is not all knowing.
YES:
Does God want to prevent Evil?
NO: Then God is not good / God is not loving.
YES:
Then why is there Evil?
To test us:
If God is all-knowing, he would know what we would do if we were tested, therefore no need to test us.
Satan:
An all-powerful, all-knowing, all-good God could and would destroy Satan.
Other reason:
Could God have created a universe without these?
NO: It is necessary for the universe to exist.
YES:
Then why didn’t he?
Free-will:
Could God have created a universe with free-will but without evil?
NO: (Loops back to “Then why didn’t he?”)
YES: (Loops back to “Then why didn’t he?”)