Why does God allow evil to exist?

i think that God created them for us to be able to balance how things work. God didnt make us all good people because we will not learn new things. it is all in his plan

God didn't allow evil to exist. When Adam and Eve disobeyed God, falling into Satan's temptation, sin entered the world and consumed it. God, unfortunately, isn't in control of the world as we know it, Satan is. That is why evil exists. God attempted to gain control back through prophets and men obedient to God. The Ten Commandments were given to show how we were already sinning against God. When people began misusing God's word and actions, Jesus was sent to bridge the gap between our world and God. What happened to Jesus is what should have happened to all of us. God sacrificed Jesus to pay for all of our sins. God doesn't know evil, He sees it through our world and wants us to repent and turn back to Him.

This sort of question is all too common and is based on a misconception of what God IS. Many religions have tried to give satisfactory answers to the question "What is God?" and have come up with many ideas, including that He can be angry, vengeful, unpredictable, to be feared or, at the same time, loving, forgiving, caring and to be loved and trusted and worshipped. Nearly all religions tend to try to describe God in human terms - in other words, they fall into the trap of creating God in the image of humanity, in spite of saying (sometimes) that Man was created in the image of God. As a result, we tend to think of Him like a Man (even physically so) with human thoughts, emotions and feelings (though we believe that these are purer, better and less self-centred than our own). We also maintain that He must be all-powerful and all-knowing and we reason that, if there is anyone like that ("if *I* were like that", is what most people mean), of course, then they would not allow what we see as evil to happen. The big difficulty with this very common (and natural) conception of God is that it is WRONG! God is NOT human, though He made us and gave us an awareness of Him which we see as different from whatever awareness other animals have (though, since we cannot communicate with animals except at a very basic level, how can we think that we have a right to know?) One of the ways of thinking of God (and it's not the only right way - it's just that, in order to comprehend Him, our minds must necessarily contemplate just one aspect at a time) is to think of Him as a Creator, as a never-ending source of intelligent, caring energy - something that we call 'Love' - which is constantly and tirelessly flowing through every atom of existence, maintaining it in its proper place according to the set of 'rules' and 'laws' which scientists are only now discovering. Many things which we think of as 'evil' - natural disasters, for example - are simply the result of the way that creation works. It is small-minded of us to believe that it is God punishing us or allowing us to be harmed: if you stand in the way of an avalanche, you are likely to be overwhelmed but it isn't the fault of the avalanche or even of the forces which started the avalanche! There are other things which we see as 'evil' which are the results of human action. In our own lives, we know what it is to sin and that we suffer the consequences of sin. This kind of evil is really the result of human free will. We, apparently, have been given the power to understand the direction and intent of God's creative energy ('Love') and also the power to choose whether we help or hinder it. When we choose to acknowledge God's 'will' and to act in accordance with it, we are augmenting and amplifying the power of 'Love' but if we choose to go our own ways, we come into conflict with it and disturb the flow. The result is eddies and obstructions in the energy flow which affect us and others around us. These things we think of as the 'evil' which causes grief, suffering and pain. They are 'allowed' because perturbations will happen from time to time and, in order to restore the balance, it takes extra energy to clear them.

In order to disallow evil, he would disallow us humans to exist. Every human is evil and corrupt. To prevent all suffering, he would have to wipe out the entire world. Think about it. The first hurt between people, started the moment Adam and Eve sinned by eating the fruit of the tree of knowledge of good and evil. Further, the first murder happened when only 4 people were on the planet. And surely we all have sinned thousands of times in our lives.

Well according to me evil isn't created by the God, but it is due to the absence of God's love in mans heart that leads him to do evil things. So we can't blame God for the evil things in the world which is caused by humans. If we could find God's love in our heart then we can be a good,kind,humble and with other good qualities person. We can always decide what are we gonna do next. God gave us freedom to decide and do it that way. He trusts us and we people do things that God never want us to do. Well like you said he could have created the world with love and peace. But if that would have been the case we were controlled by God and we are following his path not because we want to but because God's wants us to. Have a nice day and Happy My lotting!! :)