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God chooses to allow evil in the world and to not reveal himself because he wants people to not know if he exists or not because he wants people to act morally without knowing whether or not there's a punishment or reward in the afterlife. He wants people to act good even if it's totally against their own best interest (ie if you're healthy and there's five sick babies who will die if they don't receive your organs since you and the babies have a rare blood type you should sacrifice yourself and save the five babies even if there's no punishment or reward or any afterlife).
If people knew God or an afterlife based on punishment or reward for the current life existed then they'd only do good things because they want a reward in the afterlife/avoid a punishment in the afterlife so it wouldn't actually be good/truly altruistic

Which leads to the second reason,

Life is a test. People who live a truly good life can go to "heaven" or something like it. However people in heaven all have free will. Technically it's possible people in heaven could do evil things (like murder or whatever) either to others in heaven or to people on earth but they never do those evil things because only truly good people make it to heaven. The kinds of people who live evil or even less than basically perfect lives on earth who might do evil things if they were in heaven will never make it to heaven.
They may instead when they die possibly reincarnate so they may one day live a righteous life and prove themselves worthy of heaven.
or they may just at the end of their one life burn off their sins and then be promptly destroyed forever.
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I mostly came up with this on my own but I've read comments like this here on x a long time ago

I have never heard of another satisfying answer to the problem of evil and the problem of divine hiddeness.
This is the best/least bad one in my opinion.

Please tell me if and how I'm wrong
I do think you're wrong anon.  I always thought the same thing up until just a few years ago.  Evil was never supposed to even be here on this planet.   We were supposed to live 1000 years, learn a few things.  Like how to coexist with others, work with other.  Then take those things to heaven where we live for the rest of eternity, without having to mess heaven up the first 500 years we're there with stupid mistakes.  Sounds reasonable right?   Call earth a school.  

Except... somehow evil, inn the form of Lucifer, Satan and the fallen angels wound up down here with us, to corrupt us.  We never should have been corrupt.    All we were hear to do is learn how to work on group projects without stepping on each other's toes.  And if we do step on somebody's toes, how to make it right.  So how and why did evil wind up here?  

There is a recurring theme in the Bible.  A king delivers an edict.  At the time he delivers the edict, it seems like a good idea.  Sometimes a scumbag trusted advisor talks him into it.  Once the edict is made, it cannot be reversed.   Once the edict is made, it cannot be reversed.  The King has to largely sit on his hands, and let it play out.    he can help a little bit sometimes, but never enough that his actions effectively reverse the edict.  It's kind of like anybody who is harmed by the edict is on his own, but the King helps when he can.  I think this is God telling us, something like that happened to him once.  

He trusted somebody, they steered him wrong, took advantage of him.  And now there's not much he can do about it, but help us as best he can to beat that scumbag. I think Satan and the fallen angels got their power of the earth something like that.  Just a theory...  God created the earth and Adam and Eve.  He lined up some angels to go down to earth to help them and watch over them.  These angels got God to promise them that he wouldn't punish them if something bad was to happen to Adam and Eve.  Reasonable right?   They could make a mistake, get there a little too late to catch Adam after he fell over a cliff, for instance.  So God thought to himself, their request is not unreasonable, I'll grant it.
>I won't punish you for anything you do down there on the earth.
Now those angels have a blank check to do whatever they want, and God can't punish them.  He promised not to.  

He does have a plan to finally take care of them once and for all though.  It's discussed in the Book Of Revelation.  It's gone on a long time.  I'm sure God was never happy he had to leave us at the mercy of these bastards for as long as he had to.  But, he is going to handle them one day, once and for all.  

That's what I think is going on anon.
>>2471 (OP) 
Well this moral God better not be Yahwee . Because Yahwee is pretty evil and barbaric through out the old Jewish testament.
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