Is This World Really Necessary? - Carole Ritter - October 1975

Carole Ritter

If God is good, kind and just, why did He create this misery-laden world for His children to live in? How come He allows war, torture, mass starvation and ecological atrocities? Why is nature itself cruelly balanced by the "law of the jungle"? Did God create all this misery out of a sense of divine cruelty or sadism - or is there a logical reason for it all? One of our Good News readers asked the following question: "If God is so just, why does He allow babies to suffer so horribly before death - for example, a baby abandoned in a garbage can to die of painful exposure or starvation, or a child trapped in a burning house, or a toddler being mauled by a mad dog? What kind of lesson does it teach these children who are too young to comprehend life?" - Information Supplied By: Herbert W Armstrong Library