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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote]I would not create eye-burrowing worms, for one example[/quote]

You are missing a little detail  after Adam and Eve sinned, God cursed the earth making it harsh against Adam and Eve.

In the beginning, the eye-burrowing worms were useful creatures but after the earth was cursed, it probably  mutated into the harmful creature it became.  And no, it did not evolve from anything, because mutations do NOT cause one kind of creature, say, a mouse, to change into another, say, a bird.   Macro-evolution is bunky-junky science made up from fibs and fabricated nonsense.

Eye-burrowing worms, like viruses and parasites, are part of the curse, but one day God will lift this curse and make things anew.

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This PP has it right. If you reject the Biblical worldview, I guess this doesn't make sense. But if you want to answer the OP's question, here it is. The Bible says that the world was created good, and man very good, and God gave the world to man to take care of it. In return, Adam and Eve gave their dominion of it to Satan, who deceived them into believing that if they disobeyed God, they could be like God. So the world then became the province of Satan, because Adam and Eve gave to him what God had given to them. This is why God cursed the world, so that Satan would not inherit a perfect place, but a place of death that the LORD will eventually destroy and recreate. This is why there are eye-burrowing worms, for example. And anything else bad you want to name, because mankind was not satisfied with their relationship to the LORD and chose to do things their own way.

But the good news is that Christ has overcome the world. There will be pain and suffering until He comes again, but we are all accorded the opportunity to be victors through Him. If you reject it, you end up with a nihilistic despair such as the OP seems to have. But that evil is not the LORD's doing, it is ours.

There's a lot of hubris in the OP's question, as though the OP never does anything bad. We all sin. Look into your heart. I've looked into mine, and it's not pretty. We all lie at times. We all are angry at others without cause. All of us at times are unkind. We take things that aren't ours and rationalize it. We use people for selfish ends. You might not chop up babies in a civil war, but that doesn't mean you're always doing good things. You -- all of us -- are part of the evil in the world. Do you want God controlling all of [i]YOUR[/i] actions? I bet you don't. Got your eye on someone you want to have sex with just because you think they're hot? I bet you don't want God getting in the way of that. Got some plan to make a little money on the side that might not be perfectly legit? I bet you'd like Him to stay out of that. Got a grudge against someone who made you mad? Yeah, let God stay out of that and let you do what you want to get even. We all do the same thing Adam and Eve did; we all in effect tell God that this is our life and we'll live it how we want.

If you're rejecting God because there's evil in the world, you haven't examined your life. Better to blame God and say He can't exist that admit you're not as great as you think you are.[/quote]

NP here. I don’t think I am “so great” but I definitly not down with an abusive relationship with a dude who got pissed that Adam and Eve chose wrong that he cursed his entire creation. Yet, still loves me enough to allow me to grovel at his feet he’ll forgive me? [/quote]

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