If creationist is true, why is God's world so cruel?

[Sketcher]

Darkness must also exist, as Genesis 1:5 implies that God created it by the fact that he give it a name at the same time he gave light a name.

Re; evil: You say that evil is the absense of God: But God is everywhere, so by definition he cannot be absent from anywhere !

God's omnipresence tells us that he is inescapable, that he is not like the so-called god of the sea that you could escape by climbing a mountain, or the so-called god of the hills that you could escape by going to the plains. It does not mean that he cannot forsake people and by doing so withdraw his favor, his light, and his blessings.

God himself claimed in Isaiah 45:7 KJV, that he DID created evil.

It is better translated "calamity." When God does create calamity, he has his reasons. For instance, he created calamity for Sennacherib's army when they attempted to besiege Jerusalem.

 

[outlawState]

If God created the world, why is there so much cruelty in nature. Animals eating animals, to survive?

The pain in creation is bound up with the pain to mankind because of sin. Paul alludes to this in Romans. He says the whole of creation groans until the expectation of the revelation of the sons of God is fulfilled. That is to say, animals as well as humans bear the burden of sin until the final redemption of the whole of creation into "the glorious liberty of God."

Rom 8:18 "For I reckon that the sufferings of this present time are not worthy to be compared with the glory which shall be revealed in us. For the earnest expectation of the creature waiteth for the manifestation of the sons of God. For the creature was made subject to vanity, not willingly, but by reason of him who hath subjected the same in hope, because the creature itself also shall be delivered from the bondage of corruption into the glorious liberty of the children of God."

 

[SolomonVII]

One thing that I have come to realize lately is that demons pre-existed the creation of the earth.
Right from the beginning the serpent, and the serpentine intent, existed in this world.
I think it is very possible, Biblically speaking, to understand the hardness of this world as not merely the result of mankind making bad choices, but of the Fallen Angels ruling this world with a corrupting hand from a very early date indeed.
God may have created the world very good, but free will is not just in the nature of mankind, but it is the nature of angels as well. Angels pre-exist time and their fall to earth has made them the usurpers of power in our world. Their spiritual evil could go far to explain the inherent cruelty in a world that is red in tooth and claw.

 

[American Deist]

If God created the world, why is there so much cruelty in nature. Animals eating animals, to survive?

Because God created living beings with free will. Predators eat meat, and therefore kill other animals in order to survive. When the predators die, their bodies decompose and promote the growth of vegetation, which then feeds the herbivores. It is the circle of life (not to go all Lion King on you).

The same with humans. With our free will, some of us make bad choices and the consequences can negatively affect other people. Murder, assault, rape, robbery, child abuse, reckless driving, etc. The victims did not choose for those events to happen to them, but the free will choices of the perpetrators caused those negative events.

So why doesn't God intervene? Because then it would not be free will.

 

[aiki]

If God created the world, why is there so much cruelty in nature. Animals eating animals, to survive?

Doesn't the term "cruelty" imply a moral quality? But if God does not exist, if atheism is true, then animals eating animals - or humans killing humans, for that matter - is simply "dancing to DNA" and is not cruel in the least but merely cold, hard Nature "red in tooth and claw." It seems, then, a little odd for an atheist to be asking Christians about the "cruelty" of the natural world. There can be no such thing, really, on an atheistic worldview.

As a Christian, I see cruelty as an outworking of the Fall of Man which corrupted all of Creation. God did not create cruelty, though He did, as a necessary element in making us capable of genuine love, allow for the potential for evil to enter His universe.

Selah.