I'm a monotheist and earlier I've written MyTakes about how I can believe in God, why people are theists etc. Now I wanted to continue the religious series of MyTakes where I'm sharing my point of view on the problem of evil paradox which don't need to be as paradoxical according to my belief.
PS! I'm not claiming anything of this being true and what's written in this MyTake is just about what I believe. Not what I knows.
God's abilities & human's knowledge
Maybe God isn't all of these three things?
First of all I wants to mention that human beings don't know everything in the world and that in some cases the only thing we can do is to believe. Humans as a specie seems to perceive things differently, having different opinions and wills. So for the same reason I don't believe humans can be prophets or write holy books, I also believe people aren't capable to measure what God is capable to do and what it can't do. If we've difficulty to understand our own biology, the physic law and so further on earth, how on earth are we going to find out which abilities God have?
It can still be powerful without being all-powerful
Some theists have claimed that God is both omniscient, omnipotent, omnipresent and omnibenevolent. But just because some human beings claims it don't mean it has to be true. How I won't know for sure what's true or not, they won't either. It's a possibility God don't have these abilities and maybe it don't have some of them at all. I also want to add that something can be very powerful where it's capable to do a lot, have a lot of knowledge and being very nice without fitting into these categories. If you've the ability to do 99 out of 100 things, then you're powerful, but not all-mighty. So accepting the possibility of God not having all of these traits don't automatically mean you've to believe it's weak. It can still be powerful without being all-powerful.
Is God good, evil, both or other?
Another thing I want to discuss is if God is all-good or not. As I mentioned earlier in this MyTake people have different opinions about things, so I guess it also applies to what's right and wrong. People have different views on abortion, marriage, gender roles, euthanasia etc. It even exist people who thinks terrorism is the right thing to do although the majority is disagree. So my point is that since people can't be agreeing in other things, people won't be agreeing about if God is good or not either. We've free will to our own opinion. So some would think it's all-good, while other may think it's either good, evil or both good and bad. God is how it's and it's up to people to decide if they wants to think it's omnibenevolent or a mean bossy spirit. Or something in the between.
Humans are a subjective specie.
Why would God create us and what about the suffering?
God may be like a designer.
Nobody knows exactly why God created us and everything else in this universe with hundred of billions of galaxies. But my guess is that everything that exists is a part of a creative project and that God might be a creative being who likes being creative like an artist. Although I believe God are very different than humans where we thinks differently and have a different nature, I also think that it don't have to be no similarities or things God have in common with humans. God can like being creative like people. The creation could just be an innocent art project that turned out differently than expected and that randomness or accidents occurred. Maybe it was just that God created something that was meant for excitement and that it went too far like when a designer wants to construct a roller coaster that's exciting, but it went too much over the top where it didn't just turn out too exiting, but also making discomfort and suffering like nauseousness. 
Life is like a roller coaster. It has it's ups and down. It's excitement has it's pleasure and discomfort.
We also have to keep in mind that controlling an universe with hundred of billions of galaxies with thousands of planets, moons and stars in each solar systems aren't an easy job either. On earth alone we're more than seven billions people and we've also all the animals in the animal kingdom in addition to humans. While teachers who are human beings barely manage to control a classroom with young children full of energy, how can we believe controlling an universe is an easy task? I know I would upset many for saying something so offensive as this, but considering how big this universe is and the other universes if there's several, human catastrophes like war, famine, genocide and other kinds of suffering may not be as significant or bad as we thinks it's.
We may have some tiny trivial problems if we're comparing it to something else in the universe and if there's any bigger problems in the universe which is maybe universal, then it would make sense for the deity to prioritize it first before prioritizing the smaller problems. If humans have problems, we've to fix it by our self instead of expecting a deity to do everything for us where it's perhaps very busy. The problems may also seem very tiny if we gets a new chance in an afterlife.
This video shows how big the universe is in addition to telling the possibility of multiverses. So it's a lot of responsibility to take care of so many things.
If God aren't all-mighty, then it may also have to follow self-made rules that's difficult to change in the different universes. So it's a possibility there's a such rule where if you've not seen darkness, you won't perceive lightness as lightness that's hard to change. There's many things in this world that may not work, but there's also many things that do work and it's enough things on earth that works to sustain advanced life. Both the physics, chemistry, biology and all kinds of nature laws are working together. We've the food chain, reproduction system, chromosomes, every organ's functions and so on that have a function that works well enough to continue life.
The devil
The devil may just be a personification of evil like how grim reaper is the personification of death.
It can simple just be these reasons as I mentioned that may explain the problem of evil. I don't see the necessarily to blame another "individual" called the devil, Satan or something like that. It's possible that accidents happen without a second god involved and personification of evilness and other things has been used for a long time so people remember the stories better. In addition it can either scare people so it's easier to control them or impress them. The devil could be a personification like how the grim reaper is one for death and an angle or heart shaped creature for love.
My relationship with God
God don't have to fit my personal definition of perfect to be fine with it. I don't feel the need of hating God because of the world's problem. Both because I've not been in it's position and can therefor not judge, and because I and other living creatures have our own things we may see as flaws. Humans can be very flawed, so we shouldn't really judge. It's easy to assume the worst things about others and believing someone are mean because things didn't go our way. Things often have a reason. If people can be friends with people who swear, drinks, comes too late or sometimes forgets being polite, it's possible to have a fine relationship with an imperfect designer too.
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