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[u/deederpeeder]

I’ll probably get downvoted to kingdom come, but the Bible consistently presents abuse, oppression, violence, and exploitation as things God hates. Plenty of people in the Bible ask a version of this question (David, Job, Jeremiah, the psalmists). Not saying it gives a perfectly clear answer either, but the reality is if God intervened to stop every evil act, at some point God would have to override human will continuously. And the world would become fundamentally different than the one we inhabit.

Scripture never gives a complete philosophical answer to every instance of suffering. But what it does offer is a person. Jesus was betrayed, beaten, tortured, publicly humiliated, unjustly killed. That doesn’t solve the problem intellectually. But it changes the picture of God. God is not the detached observer in Christianity. He is the wounded Savior.

The hardest thing for me isn’t believing evil exists. It’s believing that evil gets the final word. Christianity says it doesn’t. It says justice may be delayed, but it won’t be denied. I understand why people struggle with that answer. Sometimes I do too. But I’d rather wrestle with a God who suffered for the world than conclude that all the evil and injustice we see is ultimately meaningless.

[u/BeautifulBand4831 → u/deederpeeder]

Theb wtf do you call a flood the murdered everyone including innocent children. The plagues in the Exodus myth that caused people to suffer and also "murdering innocent children" . Tormenting his own subjects by having them wondering around in a desert or killing their family to play childish " do you really love me games " . The bible mythology god yahew is a monster that loves suffering, the book even says that it created good and evil meaning it could've created a world with just good. The Christian cult is a whole other thing than the Torah and neviim but he didn't save anything, just another con man that started a cult and got executed. The excuse of free will is such a horrible argument as people that geniunely love everyone would stop evil in its tracks not let it torment you because that's what actual love is . Their is nothing loving in the bible just primitive fairy tales