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We call God, for sure, as the source of all good –definitely without securing our thought
to a well grounded reason at least for some who do not dare to give their mind-satisfaction. This good is equivalent to our view that what is with God are all that is perfect, that is, we expect him to give what is due to his power. We deny it or not, what lies behind our curious mind is the expectation that God will not hesitate to give what he can truly give. The less of his goodness becomes our miserable frustrations –we call them sufferings. From here, we believe that God is, nevertheless, the cause as well of our imperfection (as determinism is applied in this line of thinking).He as well causes our own tendency to choose this imperfection –in layman’s term , we call this evil.

Suffering is naturally built-in gift of the nature as an ordinary observer would put it. The nature or cosmos itself reveals itself as imperfect, and without reservation, calling us not to choose between the lines of whatever she has to offer for a day. When it thunders and somebody has been hit by a deadly lightning, it does and no other question. But, since God has to be the source and designer of the nature, he becomes the primary suspect. We see ourselves as mere victims of his ‘perfect’ design (as it means fitting to be lived-in by creatures). We take the action of the nature as if she acts justly according to whatever God wills about her. From here, we can clearly see how God can be subject to his role in “natural” evil. Yet, logically, it is redundant to say this if we are to consider our first argument being God as the source of all that is good. Another question arises that asks whether individuals have their role as well to cause ‘natural’ evil.

In fact, we are careful when we talk about natural evil since we are afraid to face it with courage. It seems for us that natural calamities (e.g. earthquakes, landslides, hurricanes, floods etc.) are deterministically [caused and] willed by the goodness of God. But, if we are to plan properly, we can see that these natural evil must have been evolved throughout our history.

Thousand years ago, at least 10,000 years ago, human beings are just 1 percent of the whole population of flora and fauna of the world. Now, at least 98 percent of very wide chasms of natural and engineered species are humans. Tracing it, from the very start we survived because we knew that everything was good because what we did were only things necessary for living and self-preservation. Things evolved economically, and we saw things between the lines of whatever necessary and what we do not have –things and nature become jealous of us, as if we have nothing at all. Through and through, good and bad emerged and nature became its source. Then, humans saw that there is God, and good comes from him and evil becomes an ‘absolute ignorance.’ In return, human saw that God must be the answer, putting an ‘absolute wisdom’ as the answer to the ‘absolute ignorance’ (like a hole topped by a bubble gum we chewed for a thousand years of idleness. And, God becomes the source of absolute things including the absolute wisdom. From this leap, or shall we call it transition, God was vaguely accepted as source of “what, who and why” of the world without referral to whatever is neutral or lacking on its foundation.

Given the fact that God created us with the acceptance of our evolution as human, are we to blame God on the natural things that never fitted our own expectations? Moral evils are works of man due to the vague evolution and extension of his potentialities to nature. His withdrawal to the static acceptance of his natural necessities becomes the natural force to think about his own jealousy towards nature. What is suffering anyway when it has not been thought as such. Moral evil came first, then, we thought of it as naturally comes from nature who revealed to us as a jealous Mother.