The Problem of Evil

[433 words] “Why doesn’t God keep children safe? Why does He allow children to die from cancer or accidents?” These are questions that are often asked in our world. Some people stop believing in God because terrible things happen to innocent children. Sometimes, folks have difficulty understanding how a good and benevolent God could allow terrible things to happen to the innocent children. Those who ask these questions must realize there are terrible diseases in this world. They came into the world at the same time sin entered. Since the souls that sin shall die (Ezekiel 18:4), diseases entered the world at the same time as death. When Adam and Eve sinned, they could no longer maintain their home in the Garden of Eden, nor could they maintain their immortality with God. Children are affected by disease because all human beings are. It is inconsistent to think that children would…