If God really rules the world, why does he allow things like earthquakes and floods and epidemics to happen? This old question has often been put in the form of "If God cannot stop such things, he is not Almighty; if he could stop them and does not, he is not good." But the fact is that the question has been put in quite the wrong way. The right question is: "Why did God choose to make a dangerous world?" If God made the world and human beings for a purpose, that purpose must be one which can be achieved only in a world in which life for all of us will always be short and dangerous; there seem to be lessons that we can learn only through danger and suffering.
- Stephen C. Neill
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