Dear reader, I believe in God, and that he is all powerful, good, and loves me. However, I hear many people state that there cannot be a loving God, because he would never allow all the bad  to happen that we see about us. 

I answer this in two ways. First, God created me with a free will. I can believe in him, or not believe in him. Regardless of the choice, God still loves me. I can look around me and see only the bad, or I can also focus on the good. 

Second, because God gave us a free will, how could he stop the bad that people do without taking away their free will? If God did this we would only be his puppets, with no will of our own.

Do we come into the world with innate knowledge of good and evil, or is that learned from our circumstances as we grow up? How does this influence our belief in whether or not there is a loving God?

If you believe as I do, then how do you reconcile a loving God with an evil world?