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God is good or bad

שו"תGod is good or bad
שאל לפני 9 שנים

Hello Rabbi,
I am not asking this question as a question about the reality of God, but rather about the correctness of the Torah.
The Torah says that God is a merciful and gracious God, etc.
So, how come there is so much evil in the world?
Whether it is from humans, such as the Holocaust, or from nature, such as epidemics/natural disasters, and more.
It seems to be proven that the Torah is not true. Isn't that so?


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Hello. A distinction must be made between human evil and natural evil, as you noted in your words. Human evil stems from the fact that humans have a choice and therefore can also do evil. If God did not allow man to do evil, then he would not have had a choice (he would have had to do good). Therefore, the very fact of giving man a choice dictates that there will be human evil, and preventing human evil means taking away the choice from humans (and this is what He did not want to do). There is still room to wonder why God does not intervene in extreme cases (like the Holocaust). I do not have a good answer to this, except that once the world is given to humans to manage, the responsibility lies with them. Regarding natural evil, it seems to me that the only answer I can see is this: God decided that the world would operate according to fixed natural laws, for His own reasons. I can suggest one reason, and that is that if there were no fixed laws, we could not function in the world (because the laws are what allow us to calculate what is expected and act accordingly). If we accept the assumption that God thought we needed a nature with rigid laws, then the question arises whether there is a system of natural laws that would operate exactly like the laws of nature in our world, but without the bad effects (disasters, tsunamis, epidemics, etc.). If there is such a system of laws, then we can ask why God did not create a world with this system of laws. But it is possible that there is no such system at all, and therefore He did not have the option to create a world without disasters and natural evil.

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