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Darkness and evil
QUESTION 16

Why is there so much evil in the world?

God created the world good, but sin entered the world through human disobedience, and with sin came death.

3 min readDarkness and evil

01THE SHORT ANSWER

God created the world good, but sin entered the world through man's disobedience, and with sin came death. Since the Fall, all creation has been affected and groans under corruption, pain, and death.

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02THE WORD

Here is what the Bible says about this question.

“God saw everything that he had made, and, behold, it was very good. There was evening and there was morning, a sixth day.”

Genesis 1:31

“Therefore as sin entered into the world through one man, and death through sin; and so death passed to all men, because all sinned.”

Romans 5:12

“For we know that the whole creation groans and travails in pain together until now.”

Romans 8:22

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