If God is love, why does he permit wickedness?

If God is love, why does he permit wickedness?God does PERMIT wickedness, and millions on earth willfully practice it. For instance, they declare wars, drop bombs on children, scorch the earth, and cause famines. Millions smoke and get lung cancer, practice adultery and get sexually transmitted diseases, use alcohol to excess and get cirrhosis of the liver, and so on. Such people do not truly want all wickedness stopped. They only want the penalties for it eliminated. When they reap what they have sown, they cry out, "Why me?" And they blame God, as Proverbs 19:3 says: "A man's own folly wrecks his life, and then he bears a grudge against the LORD." (The New English Bible) And if God stopped their evildoing, they would protest their loss of freedom to do it!

Dead Fundie's Mom
Go snap some whippers, young man.

blacksho89
If God is love, why does he permit wickedness? And if God stopped their evildoing, they would protest their loss of freedom to do it!

We have been given free will.

Robbo_op_98
After the fall of Adam and Eve God realized man had free will to do as he pleased. He allows humans to choose freely, however they must live by their choices and ultimately face the consequences of such choices.

He only interferes when absolutely necessary which in his eyes is not often as humans think it is. He lets us figure out our own issues.

Daisy J
Because we cannot love if we are not free to love. That's why marriage has to be contracted with full consent-- because if we don't have a choice in the matter, the love doesn't mean anything. God gives us free will in order that we might come to choose to love God fully. Unfortunately that love has to make room for the possibility that we will misuse our freedom and do violence to one another. But without it, our love of God would be meaningless. God wants us to be "but a little lower than the angels"-- God wants a real RELATIONSHIP with us, who are made in God's image. God doesn't just want a bunch of puppets who love because we were not given the capacity to do otherwise.

We screw up. But God provides us with abundant grace even in the midst of our own failings and our suffering at the hands of others. We are given complete freedom, but we are never alone or abandoned by God. Ultimately we'll all come to love God fully and be drawn to God for all eternity.

Evil Insane Luna™
WILLFULLY. That's the key point. Millions on earth WILLFULLY practice it. God created us, but He doesn't force us to make certain decisions! He just watches and lets us make our own decisons. Don't force the wickedness of the world on Him, saying that it's HIS fault. It isn't His fault!! It is the human race's fault!

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