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Why does God allow evil? The world, we are told, was created by a God who is both omnibenevolent (all-loving) and omniscient (all-knowing). Before He created the world He foresaw all the pain and misery that it would contain; He is therefore responsible for all of it. It is useless to argue that the pain in the world is due to sin. … If God knew in advance the sins of which man would be guilty, He was clearly responsible for all the consequences of those sins when He decided to create man.