Does God give children cancer? An atheist says "yes" (an internal critique, obviously) and then responds to Christian objections. The only one that makes some kind of sense is "we live in a fallen world", but if you believe God is both all-powerful and all-loving/omnibenevolent, that objection too loses much of its force.
Adam and Eve might have been guilty of sin by misusing their free will, but what about children who suffer from cancer today? The only "solution" to this problem would be to argue that all souls who are born on Earth have freely chosen to stray from God, but - of course - the Bible doesn´t say that, nor is that the common interpretation.
As a not entirely irrelevant sidepoint, my impression is that "modern" Christians like to question the omnipotence of God in the sense that human free will limits it, but of course only because God voluntarily wills it. But historically, Christians generally questioned the omnibenevolence of God. He is "all-good" but not omnibenevolent in the sense of "always nice", since he does indeed inflict suffering even on his faithful for various reasons. Today, this take is less popular, at least in the modern West. Today, all-good *means* all-nice.
Just some stray comments at 04.44am!
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