If God is benevolent, then why does he allow evil to exist?

Not 'benevolent'.... it's 'bentandviolent'

Benevolent God

Well evil is the yin to God's yang. You can't have good without evil. God needs the attention of millions of followers or else he wouldn't have created humanity right?

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If God is benevolent, then why does he allow evil to exist?

Is God willing to prevent evil, but not able?

Then he is not omnipotent.

Is God able, but not willing?

Then he is malevolent.

Is God both able and willing?

Then whence cometh evil?

Is God neither able nor willing?

Then why call him God?

Because without evil, we wouldn't have stuff like:

Darth Vader.

Indiana Jones.

Tucker Max.

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My son die of accident at age of 11, now is that some kind of grand plan of God?? Religious peoples are all full of ****, especially Muslims and Christians! When things are doing great, praise the God and if not..is all Devil's work...

This should be an R&S drinking question.

God is okay with the existence of evil. That doesn't make him malevolent.

That's a tired old argument. Evil is nothing more than the absence of God, just as cold is the absence of heat and death is the absence of life. Can cold exist as a force on its own? No. Can death? No. Neither can evil. It's not something that needed to be created. When you shove God away, evil is what you're left with.

this is the same question as saying if god is so kind and loving and so loved the world that he gave his only begotten son....etc...

then why did he just kill the entire human race except the family of Noah...???? Isn't killing innocents...murder?..Then who is the greatest murderer then? Does this answer the benevolent thing?