Why Does Evil Exist

Every person experience struggles and problems in our lives. Most of the people ask why evil happens to someone, either ourselves, our family, our friends, and our nation. Why there are crimes? Why there are disturbing instance in the news like child-raped, terrorist bombing and other alarming activities? And the most important question here is, why evil exists? As defined by Alvin Plantinga, theodicy is the "answer to the question of why God permits evil". Evil is generally considered to include both moral evil, acts done by humans, and natural evil, which includes pain and suffering that results from natural disasters, diseases, or genetic defects. According to J.L Mackie. "If God exists, then there is no evil, unless there is a reason that would justify Him in permitting it." Through evil we recognize goodness. The structure and nature of evil in all things considered to be created by God, considered as the unsurpassed designer of righteousness and all good things. In some cases, there are people who disbelieves in the existence of God like atheists, offenders and some sufferers of all kinds. Logical reason why they are not believing include arguments that there is a lack of empirical evidence. the problem of evil, the argument from inconsistent revelations, the rejection
of concepts that cannot be falsified, and the argument from nonbelief. Our God is omnipotent. Satan is a tool of God's love in the sense that he forces us to see God's loving patience. God is omnipotent but he never used his power to destroy
Satan, other created beings could say that He did it because He could not win by love, and so He had to resort to force and fear.
People would have a harder time understanding the love of God without the obvious evil and hatred of His enemy. For my part, even though I am not physically present, I am with you in spirit. As one who is present with you in this way, I have already passed judgment in the name of our Lord Jesus on the one who has been doing this. So when you are assembled and I am with you in spirit, and the power of our Lord Jesus is present, hand this man over to Satan for the destruction of the flesh, so that his spirit may be saved on the day of the Lord. (1 Corinthians
5:3-5) Essentially, René Descartes' proofs rely on the belief that by existing, and being born an imperfect being (but with a soul or spirit), one must, therefore, accept that something of more formal reality than ourselves must have created us. Basically, because we exist and we are able to think ideas, something must have created us (as nothing can be born from nothing).