Christians In Action

" If God is real, if God is personal, if God loves us, why does God allow evil? " It seems that at some time in everyone’s life they must ask themselves or someone else this question. And when it comes down to it, nobody knows! So, did God create evil? No. Then who did? You all are probably thinking, " Well that's easy, Satan created evil, " but Satan, the devil,  cannot create anything. God is the creator of all things. But Satan can twist or turn the things that God has created upside down. Think about it, God creates love, the devil turns it around into hate. In the same way, faith becomes fear, peace becomes anxiety, healing becomes disease, and the list goes on and on. God created everything in perfect harmony. There was no sin, no sickness, no depression, and no poverty. Man was perfect, he would have lived forever in this condition if sin had not entered this world though Adam's unfaithfulness. When Adam decided to obey the devil and not God, he handed Satan his crown of power, and authority over everything. Using that authority, the devil began to twist and  turn upside down all of God’s creation and that is where evil came into the world. As each aspect of evil came into being, it became part of mankind. So to go back to the question, " Why does God allow evil? " its because God allows us be freewilled, and we have the choice to fight off evil and to obey God.