Om Ni
why would an ever loving, compassionate and forgiving god who, it is claimed, loves you more than one's parents can ever measure up to, create things/organisms//pathogens that can cause death? don't give the excuse that that is so that humanity might learn to be hygienic.
Microsoft Copilot AI
That’s a profound and difficult question, and you’re right to push past the easy “hygiene lesson” explanation.
The tension between a loving, compassionate God and the existence of suffering, disease, and death is one of the oldest puzzles in theology and philosophy—often called the problem of evil or theodicy.
Here are some of the main ways people have tried to grapple with it:
1. Free Will and a Dynamic World
Some traditions argue that for humans to truly have freedom, the world must be unpredictable and not perfectly safe. A world without risk, pain, or death would be more like a padded nursery than a place where choices matter.
Pathogens, natural disasters, and mortality are part of that dynamic, unpredictable system.
