God As The Cause Of All Evil Essay

Journal 2 God can never be rendered as the cause of evil, as “one who does not love does not know God, for God is love” (1 John 4:8). Humans are the cause of all evil. Bishop Barron states, since God is straight, pure love, “God cannot directly will something wicked. The second thing is that God is described as being itself therefore God cannot ground or cause the non-being which is evil” (Fr. Robert Barron on God, Tsunamis, and the Problem of Evil). Evil exists in our world today because of a misuse of the free will. What is evil? Frist, evil is not a sort of knowledge. Evil, described as a sort of entity acting against the good, does not exist. Much like darkness is not opposite to light but rather a lack of it, so evil is just another word that means the lack of good itself. God did not in fact create evil, as evil is not an entity. Evil is a deficiency of a thought, happening or action that lacks in itself good. One may think of evil as the shortcoming or inadequacy of the greater good (the …show more content…
Every human from the moment he is born receives this right. I share this power just as much as anyone in the world. God cannot prevent someone from doing evil. Anything against the allowance of the exercise of free will by humanity would mean that God would not equally love us and therefore would not contain a perfect love in Him. Bishop Barron states, “God can permit evil, to permit the greater good of free will itself”. Our choice to misuse our free will is the source of evil. The mere fact that God allows evil things to happen is not a sign that he doesn’t love us. It is not a sign that depicts God as someone who is not omnipotent, omnipresent, and omniscient or omnibenevolent. The fact that God allows evil to exist is a sign of his tremendous and incomprehensible love for humanity; a love that even allowed his own Son to die in our