Good God VS. Evil Earth

Recently, some people have been asking me how it is possible, if God is so good, that there is so much evil and suffering on earth. I feel compelled to help, anyone with this view, correct it and base there beliefs off of God's word and not twist there understanding to what makes sense to there human mind.



People often times make the mistake of deciding themselves, what is "good" and what is "bad." However, although few people realize this, it is not our decision to decide what is good and what is bad. We are imperfect human beings and we are constantly following our fleshly desires, this makes us even less qualified to set the boundaries for good and evil when we are so oftenly living in sin. Instead it is God who decides what is Good and Bad:



Psalms 51:4 "Against you, you only, have I sinned and done what is evil in your sight, so that you may be justified in your words and blameless in your judgement."



Notice, that he says I have sinned against you and done what is evil in "your sight," not his own. Because we enjoy sin, we therefore can never fully understand good from evil like God can. So to understand how there is suffering and evil on the earth, we must first realize that this is not our job to judge what is good and evil. We also must remember that at the beginning of the earth everything God had created was good:

Genesis 1:31 "And God saw everything that he had made, and behold, it was very good. And there was evening and there was morning, the sixth day."

At the beginning of when God created the earth, everything he made was good but then the earth entered into the curse of sin when Adam and Eve sinned against God:

Genesis 3:17 "And to Adam he said, 'Because you have listened to the voice of your wife and have eaten of the tree of which I commanded you, 'You shall not eat of it,' cursed is the ground because of you; in pain you shall eat of it all the days of your life;"

God promised Adam and Eve that if they ate of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil that they would surely die, therefore if they would of not eaten of that tree, no one would die today(although we must remember that if we would of been put in that case one of us would of done the same thing, so the blame is not on Adam and Eve, but on the human race). This explains why people die in the earth, it is not God being mean to us, but it is us getting exactly what we deserve.
We must also remember that whenever God does something that seems evil to us, it is not, because what God does is made holy because he is God. For we are his creation and he may do with us what he pleases:

Romans 9:15 "For he says to Moses, 'I will have mercy on whom I have mercy, and I will have compassion on whom I have compassion'."

Also, we must realize, that although suffering will come about in life, do we forget about the good things God gives us? Why is it that these are commonly less acknowledged than are the bad things? All things that are good come from God, even the very fact that we are alive:

James 1:17 "Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above, coming down from the Father of lights with whom there is no variation or shadow due to change."

When we are suffering, it helps us to endure more sufferings to come, and helps us to understand Jesus's suffering, and therefore, be able to become closer to him, and more deeply understand his love for us when we began to experience suffering for ourselves.

Romans 5:3 "More than that, we rejoice in our sufferings, knowing that suffering poduces endurance,"

Phillipians 3:10 "That I may know him and the power of his resurrection, and may share his sufferings, becoming like him in his death,"

These are all biblical explanations for suffering on earth when we have a good God. We must remember not to turn to our own logic and mind but instead, think about what the bible has to say about it, if you are denying or getting worked up about these explanations because you think it would make God mean to not make our earth good, than you most certainly are focused on your own logic.