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First of all God did not create the world with suffering and evil. He made it perfect. It is man's fault that the world is the way it is now. Things are not the way they always have been.
Man's rebellion against God resulted in separation from God and the regression of the world and humanity (entropy). This is in conflict with the current popular theory of progression proposed by the evolutionary theory. The result being that we have suffering and evil in the world now.
People are dying all over the world because of war, poverty and famine. Whose fault is that? We are quick to blame God but it is not his fault. War happens because of greed, hate and lack of forgiveness.
Poverty happens because of the greed of those who have not willing to share with those who don't. The average night out in the pub could feed a family in Africa for a couple of months.
Famine happens because we don't want to give people the food we have. There is so much extra food in the EU that we have to store it away to keep the prices at the right level. Meanwhile people starve to death. Who is to blame? I'd look a little closer to home before I started blaming God if I were you.
So why doesn't God do something about it? Well, he will. At present he is giving people time to turn to him before its too late. Its not that God is not concerned about people and their plight, he is but there is something far more urgent at stake. If this world was all there was then God might well have a case to answer but it is not. There is the whole of eternity to come and you don't want to spend it in the wrong place.
One day God will bring it all to an end. It might be today or tomorrow, no one knows except him. The question is: will you be with him or against him?
If you want to know what your biggest problem with all this really is, click here.
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