Quote (kalelvszod @ 13 Apr 2015 20:42)
Way i look at it the universe needs balance. you have good only fair you have evil.
Quote (southpark247 @ 13 Apr 2015 22:22)
as i see it got gave us free will to do as we please so ofc there will be evil
But he's not talking about evil in the article he's just talking about things which can do us harm, There are so many ways for man to get hurt and ways for man to accidentally die.
And then there's many ways that man has developed for causing hurt and death, that's where "free will" comes in if you look at it coming from a Christian point of view. A Christian would know that Satan works just as hard as Jesus doesand that his handi-work goes into things like weapons of mass destruction poison gas, the desire to murder etc..
Think about it this way, when you were a child growing up would you look back on those days with any fondness if your mom and dad sheltered you from everything? If they held your had all the time everyday all day, or kept you in a plastic bubble sealed off to keep you safe? Of course not. I got three concussions and four different sets of stitches and two casts on broken bones before I was eighteen. And I had a great childhood! I was rough and tumble all day all the time.
My kids are the same way, with six kids I can't even count the broken collar bones, or casts we have saved, how many sets of stitches the collective set of kids have gotten. I would have felt safer having them all safely sit on the couch or in plastic bubbles breathing purified air, but I've loved them way too much to make them endure that. And in fact I've been too selfish in my enjoyment of watching them live life to make them endure that. You aren't living if you don't run the risk of stepping on that octopus every so often, part of the fun of swimming in the ocean is not being taken by a great white. Those "horrible" things mentioned in the article are all just life, they are part of what make us mortal, if we didn't have things that made us fear for our lives, then we wouldn't hold our lives as precious as we do would we? So maybe they would be looked at as a gift just as much or maybe even a greater gift than the ordinary things.