God is supposed to be both all-loving and all-powerful, yet evil and suffering exist. Therefore either God can do something about it but won’t – in which case God is not all-loving; or God wants to do something about it but can’t – in which case God is not all-powerful. Kim Fabricius One of the most troubling issue for atheists, agnostics and even people of faith is the problem of evil in the world. Basically, the issue boils down to: If God is all powerful, then why are bad and tragic things permitted to happen? It must be that God is not all powerful. If God is all loving and either causes or allows evil, then God cannot be loving. What are we to do with such a conundrum? The Quandary Frankly speaking, this is a bitch of a dilemma! It is and always has been the major stumbling block in belief in God and in growing a deeper faith for believers. Oh, people can give you all sorts of answers and rationalizations and explanations, but in the end we are left gob-smacked with the facts of events like 9/11, the Holocaust, and all the other ethnic cleansings that have taken place, the Inquisition, floods and hurricanes and earthquakes, oh my! And babies with cancer, car accidents that kill a…….