The short answer to your troubled mind is that we are in a fallen world. Adam forfeited his crown and throne to Lucifer. Lucifer is the god of this World now and has been ever since he caused the fall of man.Atheists are part of the problem.Atheists will laugh......of course......
But it does stand to reason
They haughtily declare that man doesn't need God, but everything we see proves the opposite.
Look at Russia and China, both atheist countries.
Would you want to live in either?
I'm what's called a "troubled believer".
I give God credit for creation and all things.
Unfortunately, that includes a history of unbelievable horrors and evil on his planet Earth.
I cannot reconcile 3 year old babies being raped.
For that matter......why do Earth's creatures ALL need to kill another creature to survive? What a brutal creation.
The amount of Terror and horror that takes place on this planet every day defies a loving deity.
The Creator is Lord over all the Universe, but The Earth is a bit of enemy territory by a contractual obligation via Adam forfeiting his birthright.
When God gets involved in things on Earth, it is like an invasion. This is also why we are told to occupy. That is because we are to take enemy ground and hold it, until Christ comes.
Christ took the first steps in winning that back by leaving heaven and His throne to come in the form of man as The Second Adam, but the process is not finished.
The issue still remains though that The Title, Crown and Throne will not be transferred until The Father is satisfied with the number of true believers he has gathered in to the Son's Sheepfold. When that number and that day, that not even The Son knows is fulfilled, then the first seal on the deed to Earth will be broken and along with it the 1st seal judgment will be released on Lucifer, and his kingdom and all those who follow him, and so on and so forth until all the seals are broken, and The Deed is fully read and entered in to the record of the Court of Heaven and all the Judgments upon the usurper and his kingdom are completed.
That Land Deed or Title is the scroll in The Book of Revelation.
Once Christ Returns, the Earth will be restored as it once was, and the entire Earth will become as The Garden of Eden, and Christ will sit upon the throne as The Second Adam.
What church teaches the above?