Place an innocent infant on a blanket in Central Park, look the other way........in less than 60 seconds she will be gone forever.
Either killed or enslaved into prostitution or for some perverts pleasure.
What kind of "loving God" condones this? Is free will REALLY worth this? Why does God not protect innocent babies?
You can talk all kinds of Bible babble, but the reality is the world is an evil place for far too many.
And again, is "free will" worth the savagery and immeasurable and incalculable suffering? Worth it for whom?
Why place a tree with the most tempting fruit on Earth, then say "Meh, don't touch that"
The Gods must be crazy.
I was once a solid, devout God fearing Christian....then I started thinking about it.
Maimonides responds...
It must be admitted as a fact that it cannot be said of God that He directly creates evil, or He has the direct intention to produce evil; this is impossible His works are all perfectly good. He only produces existence, and all existence is good. God is perfect goodness, and that all that comes from Him is absolutely good. Consequently the true work of God is all good, since it is existence. ALL the great evils which men cause to each other because of certain intentions, desires, opinions, or religious principles, are likewise due to non-existence, because they originate in ignorance, which is absence of wisdom. The numerous evils to which individual persons are exposed are due to the defects existing in the persons themselves. We suffer from the evils which we, by our own free will, inflict on ourselves and ascribe them to God, who is far from being connected with them. Man himself is the author of this class of evils.
The error of the ignorant goes so far as to say that God's power is insufficient, because He has given to this Universe the properties which they imagine cause these great evils.