Why Does God Allow Evil In The World?
Answer by David Ramanauskas
That question—“If God exists, why doesn’t God do something about all the evil in the world?”—is not a foolish question. It’s not a rebellious question. It’s a human question. It rises from grief, from loss, from injustice, from seeing children suffer, wars rage, and hearts break.
Many atheists ask it honestly, not to mock God, but because they ache for a world that should be better than this. And that longing itself tells us something important: we were not made for evil. We were made for something more.
The Bible begins with a breathtaking declaration:
“In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth.”
And when He created it, it was not broken. It was not cruel. It was not violent. It was perfect. Life was whole. Creation was whole. Humanity was whole. There was no death, no hatred, no sickness, no oppression, no fear. The world God made was good—deeply, beautifully, fully good.
Evil did not come from God.
Evil came through human choice.
God created humanity with something sacred: free will. Love that is forced is not love. Obedience that is programmed is not devotion. Relationship requires freedom. And when humanity chose rebellion over trust, autonomy over God, self over love, the world fractured. Sin didn’t just affect human hearts—it infected the whole creation. That is why the Bible says creation itself “groans.” The earth is broken not because God made it broken, but because humanity broke its relationship with Him.
And here is the hard truth:
Much of the evil in this world is not God’s doing—it is ours.
Wars, greed, exploitation, abuse, corruption, hatred, violence—these flow from human hearts. God did not design those things. Humanity did.
But here is the deeper question behind the question:
Why doesn’t God stop it?
The Bible tells us that when God created humans, He created us differently from all other animals. For God created us in His own image, and that means we were and are very special to God
But by the eighth chapter of Genesis we read that God saw the wickedness of humankind was so great across the earth, and that every thought in their mind was continuously evil. That God was sorry He had made men and women on the earth. He was so grieved that He decided to destroy them.
But, thankfully, Noah found grace in the eyes of the Lord God.
At that point, all those thousands of years ago, God could have destroyed all human life for the evil in the world. But I am sure most of us would be thankful to God that he allowed the human race to continue.
Today, we can watch the news on TV and learn all about the evil in the world, and its getting worse. Also, we have the problem of biased news reporting, and fake news through social media.
So, what is God going to do about it? Or, are we all living on borrowed time before god’s patience finally cracks and He destroys all life on earth.
Thankfully, God has a different plan, a plan that was set in motion from the beginning of creation. A plan that began to take shape with Moses and the Ten Commandments of God, and had its fulfilment 2,000 years ago in Jesus Christ.
While all the evil on earth spread down through the generations, God made sure no evil was allowed into His kingdom of heaven. Why? Because everyone in heaven loves God with all their heart, mind, soul and strength, and loves one another as themselves. That perfect love is what makes heaven paradise.
Through Jesus Christ and His sacrificial death on the cross, Jesus opened the way for all who want to, to become children of God and inheritors of the kingdom of heaven. For those who reject this offer of God through Jesus Christ, for those who don’t want to live their life on earth in preparation for eternal life in heaven. They will not enter God’s heaven, they will be destroyed.
Someone asked Jesus what they had to do to make sure they would qualify for heaven when they died. And Jesus told them then had to keep the greatest commandment of God. To love God with all their heart, mind, soul and strength, and to love one another as themselves. This is the meaning and purpose of our life here on earth.
In the short time we have on earth in comparison to eternal life in heaven, we are commanded to live our lives in preparation for heaven. And if you read my book, This Is The Meaning of Life, then you will read the 300 pages of evidence that proves it is true.
Part of the evidence for God are the hundreds of prophecies of God in the Bible. Prophecies that prove God is real and that the history of humankind has been unfolding according to the predetermined plan and purpose of God.
Also, just as the prophecies of God prove that what God said would happen in the future has happened. Then we can be confident of what God has foretold of the end of this present age, and of a new heaven and earth.
For in the last chapters of the Bible we read those prophecies of God, that Jesus Christ will return, and that all the kingdoms of this world will become the kingdom of God and of His Lord Jesus Christ. And all evil will come to an end.
11 I saw a great white throne and him who sat on it, from whose face the earth and the heaven fled away. There was found no place for them. 12 I saw the dead, the great and the small, standing before the throne, and they opened books. Another book was opened, which is the book of life. The dead were judged out of the things which were written in the books, according to their works. 13 The sea gave up the dead who were in it. Death and Hell gave up the dead who were in them. They were judged, each one according to his works. 14 Death and Hell were thrown into the lake of fire. This is the second death, the lake of fire. 15 If anyone was not found written in the book of life, he was cast into the lake of fire.
21 I saw a new heaven and a new earth, for the first heaven and the first earth have passed away, and the sea is no more. 2 I saw the holy city, New Jerusalem, coming down out of heaven from God, prepared like a bride adorned for her husband. 3 I heard a loud voice out of heaven saying, “Behold, God’s dwelling is with people; and He will dwell with them, and they will be his people, and God Himself will be with them as their God. 4 He will wipe away every tear from their eyes. Death will be no more; neither will there be mourning, nor crying, nor pain any more. The first things have passed away.”
5 He who sits on the throne said, “Behold, I am making all things new.” He said, “Write, for these words of God are faithful and true.” 6 He said to me, “I am the Alpha and the Omega, the Beginning and the End. I will give freely to those who are thirsty from the spring of the water of life. 7 Those who overcome, I will give them these things. I will be their God, and they will be my sons and daughters. 8 But for the cowardly, unbelieving, sinners, abominable, murderers, sexually immoral, sorcerers, idolaters, and all liars, their part is in the lake that burns with fire and sulphur, which is the second death.” Revelation 20:11 – 21:8
Does that seem harsh? But God’s rescue plan for humankind is for us to live as children of God, free from all kinds of evil in the world, and that came at a price. The sacrifice of Jesus Christ on the cross. His death for your life, His death for your eternal life in paradise.
You can read all about the sacrifice of God for your eternal life in heaven, in my book – This Is The Meaning of Life, and you can read it for free from my website – www.ThisIsTheMeaningOfLife.couk
You will also read of the evidence that proves it is true.