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And why is that a problem?That God does not intervene, at least in most cases.
I guess it’s “serious” if you think that God really does force the outcomes of wars. Do you?BTW, it is pretty serious because it does not happen only in high school games. It happens in wars.
Catholic theology, properly speaking, comes from the magisterium, not an encyclopedia, let alone an out-of-date encyclopedia.Let’s see what the Catholic Theology has to say about it:
Note that this isn’t a statement of the magisterium – or even of Aquinas! – but rather, merely of the editorial staff of the encyclopedia. Hardly authoritative.Catholic Encyclopedia : Evil
“But we cannot say without denying the Divine omnipotence, that another equally perfect universe could not be created in which evil would have no place.”
As we see above @Gorgias, God could create this world that we never commit even a single act of sin.
More quote mining and misdirection:CCC 310 But why did God not create a world so perfect that no evil could exist in it?
With infinite wisdom and goodness God freely willed to create a world in a state of journeying towards its ultimate perfection, 314 through the dramas of evil and sin. – God created the dramas of evil and sin for our benefit.
Let’s review:310 But why did God not create a world so perfect that no evil could exist in it? With infinite power God could always create something better. But with infinite wisdom and goodness God freely willed to create a world “in a state of journeying” towards its ultimate perfection. … With physical good there exists also physical evil as long as creation has not reached perfection.
311 Angels and men, as intelligent and free creatures, have to journey toward their ultimate destinies by their free choice and preferential love. They can therefore go astray. Indeed, they have sinned. Thus has moral evil, incommensurably more harmful than physical evil, entered the world. God is in no way, directly or indirectly, the cause of moral evil. He permits it, however, because he respects the freedom of his creatures and, mysteriously, knows how to derive good from it.
314 We firmly believe that God is master of the world and of its history. But the ways of his providence are often unknown to us. Only at the end, when our partial knowledge ceases, when we see God “face to face”, will we fully know the ways by which - even through the dramas of evil and sin - God has guided his creation to that definitive sabbath rest for which he created heaven and earth.
- you cut off #310.
- you skip #311, which does irreparable damage to your assertions
- you graft in a mere phrase of #314
- you add a personal comment, found nowhere in the Catechism, about “evil and sin” being “for our benefit”