Why does God allow bad things to happen
The world must seem a scary place at the moment. Russia is a growing threat, the current leadership in USA appears to be unreliable, there is an increase in hatred and violence all over the world. People are threatened by the impacts of Climate change, migration levels and financial inequity. I was talking with a good friend yesterday and we got onto the topic of how crazy things are and they mentioned something that their daughter had said. Essentially, they were asking a valid question of why did God allow the Bondi Beach shooting to happen. It is a question that has been asked before of course over time. But it remains a good question and one that on the surface would appear to be difficult to answer. Certainly, the God who is all powerful and all seeing and yet stands by while innocent people are killed is definitely not a god who I would bow down to, or even accept. It got me thinking of how I would answer tha...