Is God evil for allowing all this pain and suffering exist in this world?

[Terry_Sampson]

@boendennis

I want to understand.

Good luck with that. Our mutual acquaintance faces a dilemma: "Should he hate God, or folks who believe in God, or both?

• He’s said that he hates God. [See: Question about antitheists and salvation.] Why? Because, in his words,

@NickolaosPappas

Its always thpse who do the least bad that are suffering from the evil things the other people do.God gave us too much freedom if you ask me. He cant do that.

And:

@NickolaosPappas

See the whole bible takes this stance that “Humans bad,God good always” . To me this is strange really.Its never Gods fault but ours. We deserve nothing and God did everything fpr us

@NickolaosPappas

Sin=evil acts. God created free will. With free will God created sin as well . Sin=evil acts again.
Simple
Anti-theists are agnostics as well. Not only atheists and even if they were they have every right to make that argument

@NickolaosPappas

Hense God created evil.

@NickolaosPappas

Sorry but an infinite being couldn’t find any other way? If God is beyond our understanding and “his ways are not ours” how can you put limitations on what he can do as you did claiming he couldn’t do it any other way?
To me this is a scapegoat to really mask how evil God can be sometimes. I mean he created it. So how can a good loving being create something so destructive and evil that makes us monsters such as sin? Either he has to be evil (at least on some part as well)or the sin must be preexisting hense making it a power equal to God.

So, either God is omnipotent and allows pain and suffering, or he isn’t omnipotent and cant’ stop it.

Since God is, according mainstream Christianity, the Creator of all things, he shouldn’t have given humans free will to begin with. Ergo I conclude that our mutual acquaintance thinks God’s first mistake was to give humans free will.
God’s second, and concurrent, mistake was creating humans who can and do sin.
To be a perfect, God should have created moral robots: automatons incapable of sin.
That’s why our mutual acquaintance hates God.
Why, then does he hate Christians who believe in and worship such a god? Precisely because the god they believe in and worship is either impotent or the author of sin. We are worse than fools, in his opinion We don’t come close to meeting his standards and as he says:

@NickolaosPappas

Pitifull christians defending their “brother” even though they are clearly on the wrong.Diocletian did something right . Cant wait for that moment again