I was recently in online conversation with someone in the process of losing their faith. How would you have answered the questions he raised?
How would you answer these questions from someone losing their faith? : cruciformity
The answer is truly simple. What does he expect God to to. To bring justice to this world? That's apparently not how it works.
God's target is to eradicate evil once and for all, under open witnessing. The only way to do so is to allow evil to be displayed fully and openly in this world, such that Law will apply in the final judgment for evil to be completely eradicated and to secure a final Heaven without evil.
He lost his faith simply because he applied his human intelligence to assume that planet earth is a final place in God's plan while it's not.
An analogy:
The final Heaven is like an aquarium while planet earth acts as its filter. The more dirty the filter is, it could mean that it's more effective in filtering the dirtiness to secure a clean aquarium. Now that guy's ask is for a clean filter. A clean filter only means it failed to serve it's purpose of allowing the dirtiness to show up and filtered.
The second wrong assumption that guy made is that earth should be a heaven like place while the Bible never says so. In contrary, earth is a place lying outside God's dwelling realm, where Satan is said to be the god here. Wherever outside God's realm should be hell like. Earth is a better place than hell simply because God has an unfinished job here, which is His salvation.
The third wrong assumption is that everyone is God's child while the Bible never says so. There are wheat and weeds, sheep and wolves. If you refuse to call Him Father then well perhaps you are not.
So the question going back to that guy who lost his faith is, with the best of his intelligence why couldn't him figure out the answers by himself, with so simple an answer is?
In a nutshell, human intelligence is a joke. Someone (like that guy who lost his faith) chooses to rely on it, he dies faster.