HighSeraph posted...
I fail to see how a human choosing to be evil disproves the existence of a benevolent god.
Because God could choose to be both good and active against any kind of human suffering he so chose. God could choose to create food for the hungry--even for some subset of the hungry, say believers--but magic food is not observed. God could stop any wars or violence he so chose, but this magical intervention is observed precisely nowhere. God surely knows how to cure cancer or can do it directly, but a cure for cancer has not been given, nor have magical cures of any kind ever been observed.
Ordinary human beings work tirelessly to do all kinds of good, but God, if he were real, could intervene at any time and provide
much
better help. If God is both real and good, this should happen at least some of the time under at least some circumstances. I've seen the old, tired arguments about how things happen for a reason or whatever, but if God is real, God is good, and God has magic powers, then why is God's plan apparently to never do anything? It'd be one thing if, say, sometimes amputees grew back limbs or stage 4 cancer was sometimes reversed magically. Then you could say that there are hidden factors or unknown reasons. But divine intervention never happens!
I cannot feed the hungry or stop wars with my mind, but God can and never does.