Why does Evil Exist

clipped from www.gnmagazine.org Skeptics ask a valid question of believers: How can a loving God allow evil to exist? The believer in turn asks a valid question of moral relativists: How can you say something is evil when you deny absolute good or evil, arguing that good and evil can be defined only by what each person thinks? Philosophers, religious thinkers and criminologists have long sought rational explanations to these important questions. What is evil? From where did it come? The Bible clears up these mysteries for us and provides a solution for the evil that is so widespread and entrenched in the world. Did God create evil? The Bible consistently explains evil as rebellion against God and His way of selfless, outflowing love for others-His way of giving. Evil is self-absorbed and uncaring of others, the way of getting and taking. Free moral choice Origin of evil Man embraces evil Dealing with the cause

Does evil exist?
1) Does darkness exist? No; it is the absence of light.
2) Does a quality exist? No; it is not an object but the attribution of an immaterial property to objects or processes.

Hypostatizing the immaterial is acceptable, if we keep the allegoric, figurative, metaphoric nature of any hypostasis in mind.