Evil and Good

Good and Evil are simply two opposite reactions to the value of life. Good comes from God, he is the one that defines right and wrong, evil always assumes that it has no purpose since is against God’s intentions and designs for this world, but God has a purpose on allowing evil to exist, and that is to accomplish his purposes “Since God is the highest good, he would not allow any evil to be in his works unless he were so omnipotent and good as to make good even out of the evils.” — Agustin

There are two types of evil one is Natural Evil and the other is Moral Evil. For example, Natural evil could be a tornado. It causes disasters, it can live towns in ruins, but nobody can be held responsible for its occurrence. On the contrary Moral Evil are decisions that people make like murder. Such actions can be punished and of course, someone can be held responsible. So, why does God allow evil to exist? When God created the universe, he created moral agents within a certain order. He created rules in the world and a man capable of reasoning, making judgments, and make real choices. Real choices exist only if there are at least two possibilities, and each possibility must have a corollary consequence for example, in the Garden of Eden Adan and Eva had a choice to eat the fruit from the tree and die, or not to eat the fruit of the tree and live. Each of these choices had a corollary consequence. Since created order exists, every single choice that people make ether good or bad to work their way out in history. We may think that God could have intervened in certain situations that by comparison, we think are the worse that could ever happen, but if God had intervened in that particular event it would not have been part of our history and if we rule out every single catastrophe or every single bad event throughout our life we will be left with a “perfect world” with no evil, and if the purpose of God was to have a world without evil he would have created it that way since the beginning.