God doesn't prevent terrible things because?

[The Fury]

Licence said:

S.T.A.G.E. said:

JWeinCom said:
A) The god in the old testament is not portrayed as being omniscient and omnipresent as people conceive him to be now. Take for instance the story of Cain and Abel. After Abel is killed God asks him what happened indicating that he did not know. There are lots of other examples that show stuff like that.

I think thats a test, not really that he didn't know. You know kind of like how your girlfriend asks you a question when she knows the answer, but she really just wants to hear you say what shes hoping you'll say. 

If God was omniscient he would not need to do a test - he would know how the test goes beforehand!

Free Will. It's about the idea of faith and trust. If God is oniscient then he could know all possibilities of the future just not which future it is (if he knew what Cain would say then there is only one future and therefore Free Will is an illusion/lie).