Why is there evil in the world, if God is all-powerful and good?

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Soriku said:

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1. Perception - Having lived abroad and having witnessed evil, living back in Ireland again now, peoples perception is so warped. Poverty and crime in Ireland is a joke compared to what I've seen. People think they have it hard here, where they really live in the top 1% of the world. Therefore, without some evil or in my case a higher level of evil, how can we appreciate the good? How can I be so passionate about the beauty in Ireland? Because I have seen whats it's like in many other, much more evil places.

 

2. Free will - Speaks for itself. Communism and facism have proven that controlling how people fell or are, creates a disaster. What is evil to? An affair? An evil video game? Maybe without these things, the person would never learn or never vent themselves.

 

By this logic you're saying that it's impossible to appreciate good food, a good movie, a good game, good company, or anything else positive without knowing how bad certain things are. Well no when I eat good food I don't necessarily compare it to anything else. I know it's good because it's delicious from the onset. You can make similar arguments for the other things I listed.

Besides, how can I tell what's good or what's not? How am I able to separate my experiences? What makes something good or bad exactly? Don't you think it might make sense we have something innate which allows us to judge things on their own merit?

Also I don't think simple appreciation is worth natural disasters, or the thousands of diseases that exist, aAnd yetmong other things. 

And yet what you count as delicious, someone else might perceive it to be gross. Or if you had it every day, it may not be delicious in time. But yes, generally, it's about perception. Whether that perception is formed through over exposure or something else. If life was bliss, then you would seek out even more to satisfy yourself.