God doesn't prevent terrible things because?

[Alby_da_Wolf]

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.

Not all the Old Testament, but surely the Book of Genesis, and this could confirm theories that initially Jews weren't monotheistic, but polytheistic, then later male deities were fused together in Yahweh and the female mother goddess Asherah, probably Yahweh's wife, and her cult suppressed.

About the answer, I'm undecided between B) he doesn't want to and E) he doesn't care

Some say he doesn't want because he wishes we accept our mortality and the imperfection of the world and that we don't become too attached to earthly things so that our soul can become free. But when far too many things go wrong, despite the efforts of many good willing people it's quite difficult to accept...