[Safrguns]

Answers are in the bible.

[CharlesOConnell]

Jesus Christ directly addressed the question, and you know his answer, so if you’re not talking about that, then you’re not serious.

[pepsionice]

In the early 1970s, as a kid, I happened upon the general store routine in a rural area of the south. There...you’d have five or six older gentlemen who mostly read local newspapers and listened to Paul Harvey. They could engage in a conversation and in five minutes lay out the entire topic, the positions, the problems, and settle for differing opinions.

Today, you have various news networks trying to complicate the subjects, and bringing on fake ‘experts’ who simply can’t debate or talk at the level of my old general store debate ‘team’. So you end up with a whole hour wasted on what could have been accomplished in the 1970s in five to ten minutes.

I think if you downsized the news networks, and people just limited themselves to 30 minutes a day.....we’d all be better off.

[equaviator]

"1. Why are things the way they are in this world?"

Not because I live in it.

"2. How do we fix it?"

Realize that hope all by itself is not enough and get to work on that which is still workable to the extent that it can be restored to the extent that it can continue to grow and thrive to the extent that what has happened will never happen to us again.

[SkyPilot]

Great answers here from Freepers.

Romans 5: 12

12 Therefore, just as sin entered the world through one man, and death through sin, and in this way death came to all people, because all sinned.

Romans 1:18-22

18 The wrath of God is being revealed from heaven against all the godlessness and wickedness of people, who suppress the truth by their wickedness, 19 since what may be known about God is plain to them, because God has made it plain to them. 20 For since the creation of the world God’s invisible qualities—his eternal power and divine nature—have been clearly seen, being understood from what has been made, so that people are without excuse. 1 For although they knew God, they neither glorified him as God nor gave thanks to him, but their thinking became futile and their foolish hearts were darkened. 22 Although they claimed to be wise, they became fools

But as some have said here, God is still in charge. Satan was given temporary dominion over the earth when the Fall of Man occurred. He is the "prince of the air." But God has placed limits on Satan, and God's purpose is bring as many in humanity who will be saved to Him through Jesus Christ. We have free will to choose Him, or to not.

The spiritual battle is real, just as the physical battle on earth is real.

Ephesians 6:12

12 For we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this world, against spiritual wickedness in high places.

[musicman]

"Why is the World the Way it is?...."



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[JimRed]

Satan.

[Hebrews 11:6]

For context:
Why the Universe Is the Way It Is, by Christian astronomer and apologist Dr. Hugh Ross.