I know, I know...we aren’t supposed to point out the choices we made when a tragedy happens. It isn’t nice.
However- it is NOT God’s fault and bad things are NOT “God’s plan” for us. But the sad truth is that we CHOSE to “know both good and evil”; we CHOSE to
“be as gods”. It’s called free will. Whenever there is pain, loss and disaster, we would do well to remember that this is what we wanted and hot shots like us would make the same choice again. That’s called pride and we ALL suffer from it.
You take the bad with the good and we sure don’t mind taking the credit when things go right.
Go back one step. God gave us the choice and, being omniscient and eternal, knew how we would choose and knew what the consequences of that would be in the end. Remember, God knew at the time of Adam, before the Apple, that some years later he would be killing everybody in the world except for Noah and his family.
This has been a problem for a long time. Ascribing to your deity the attributes of omniscience, omnipotence and pure benevolence conflicts with the bad in the world. Strike any one of those three and there is no more conflict. It required some pretty torturous logic to attempt to reconcile all three.