3. If God created all the good things in life, such as the sky,
sun and so on, why did he also create disasters and diseases, where
even christians die from?
Almost no one has answered this. Well, the best answer to
theodicy (explaining why evil exists with an all-good god) I've
found is this story:
The Tale of the Twelve Officers
http://www.infidels.org/library/modern/mark_vuletic/five.html
It was, of course, sad to hear that Ms. K had been slowly raped and
murdered by a common thug over the course of one hour and
fifty-five minutes; but when I found out that the ordeal had taken
place in plain sight of twelve fully-armed off-duty police
officers, who ignored her terrified cries for help, and instead
just watched until the act was carried to its gruesome end, I found
myself facing a personal crisis. You see, the officers had all been
very close friends of mine, but now I found my trust in them shaken
to its core. Fortunately, I was able to talk with them afterwards,
and ask them how they could have stood by and done nothing when
they could so easily have saved Ms. K.
"I thought about intervening," said the first officer, "but it
occurred to me that it was obviously better for the murderer to be
able to exercise his free will than to have it restricted. I deeply
regret the choices he made, but that's the price of having a world
with free agents. Would you rather everyone in the world were a
robot? The attacker's choices certainly weren't in my control, so I
can't be held responsible for his actions."
(Continued at the URL above)
