Argument from evil, restated

[Origen]

God chose not to make puppets, so he gave us free will. The world runs along a set of logical laws, sometimes they cause shit to happen, hurricanes, earthquakes, illness, ultimately death. God works through all this by giving us grace to make good choices, to help others, to fund research, etc etc. he's not Santa, he's not a magician. Christians believe in a god who died by public execution, his followers scattered, his message seemingly forgotten. God drew victory from that tragedy through the resurrection, but first came the crucifixion. Evil is the price for our radical freedom, would you prefer to be docile preprogrammed robots? Humanity is so free it was able to kill god. Problem of evil solved.

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The 2004 tsunami that killed 200 000 people... remind me again how good can come of that?

Note I did not say good comes from natural disasters, they are a reality of our world. What kind of free existence would we have if God held up his hand and stopped all natural things from happening? We would then be toys in God's diorama. I said God works through us, helping us to make good choices. Ask yourself how much global weather change and the melting of the polar ice cap has influenced our recent natural disasters? What about the lack, or inefficiency of emergency warning systems? God transforms the pain of those victims in his eternity. Of course, if you do no believe in God and the immortality of life, all deaths are a tragedy, and if living in a nihilistic universe where life and death are meaningless is what you want, you're welcome to you're belief. My argument is you can't use disasters, crime, illness to disprove the existence of God, because God is not limited by our time and space.

Certainly the tsunami of 2004 was a tragedy, as was that of 2011, as are all deaths which cause the early interruption of life. But those of us who believe in God, know that he works in the eternal and is able to turn sorrow into joy in ways we know not of.