Does everything happen according to God's plan?

If so, he's evil. Little kids get cancer and die painfully all the time, and he caused it.

If not, he's evil. Little kids get cancer and die painfully all the time, and he doesn't do anything to stop it.

According to most Christians I know. Yes.

But as I try to follow this train of logic, it follows that he planned for me to be an atheist, and in doing so, he planned for me to go to hell. Which I find odd because I have also been told by those same Christians that this same god is all powerful, all knowing, and loves me. However, i maintain that one cannot consider him a loving god if he plans for people to go to hell. To summarize, if he is all knowing and all powerful, he is not all loving.

An alternate idea would follow that, if he is all loving and all knowing, he would know how to and would choose to show me he is real. Since he hasn't, I could, instead, conclude that he can't and is not all powerful. However, if this is the case I do not feel compelled to call him god.

More simply stated, the idea of an omnibenevolent, omnipotent, omniscient, god is a fallacy when examined against the "evil" that exists in the world.

No. Some things are caused by natural disasters, some are the work of Satan and some are caused by the food we eat. God has given us guidelines as to what we should eat and what we should drink. We ignore these guidelines and then blame God when we or our children become sick. Besides food manufacturers add all sorts of additives to the food to retain freshness and prolong shelf life. But God gets the blame for everything bad that happens in our life and in the world.

God has no plan. He set this universe in motion, that's all. We have our free will to choose whatever actions we want to. The possibilities are endless.

Yes, God's plans and promises are flawless. "God is not human, that he should lie, not a human being, that he should change his mind. Does he speak and then not act? Does he promise and not fulfill?" (Numbers 23:19)

Only if you get down onto your knees and ask God to take action in your life. God isn't going to come in and save you if you don't ask for it with a humble attitude.

So say the Islamists. and the Christians. (God's will be done)

in·shal·lah

inˈSHälə/

exclamation

if Allah wills it.

Seeings that God knows the beginning and the end of everything, he plans ahead of our brainfarts

Yes and no. Not everything is predetermined, but....everything God intends to accomplish He will accomplish.

Only for brainwashed believers.