God is still all loving, omniscient and omnipotent therefore he allows us to have free will and it is our fault we choose to do moral evil. To take away our free will would be unloving as it would take away our ability to choose good and to love God. Natural evil, on the other hand, can be seen as a consequence of the 'disharmony of nature brought about by the …show more content…
An omniscient God would have been able to foresee the evil which would come about and have been able to prevent it. We are all being punished because of human uncontrollable desire The existence of hell also shows that God must have foreseen the need for punishment, therefore, showing that God cannot be all loving and that mankind cannot be held fully responsible for the fall of man.
The main issue is whether suffering and evil are really necessary in order to achieve the desired goals. Surely an all-loving, omnipotent, omniscient God would be able to devise a way in which humans could learn and develop without the need for evil and suffering. It is also not in the nature of an all-loving God to allow certain people to starve to death in order to provide the knowledge to others to feed them. I, therefore, do not believe that these theories provide a conclusive defense for the existence of evil alongside the existence of god in the