Why does God not intervene when evil takes root in people?
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Explanation:
Because God helps to us and saves from evil.
We believe in God..
Explanation:
God doesn’t intervene because everything is happening exactly as he planned. Both the good and the evil that we experience is caused by our good God, according to his good plan. God has provided us an experience of good and evil, because that is the only means for us to learn to love good and hate evil.
All knowledge is a contrast.
You can’t appreciate being sheltered from a storm, if you’ve never endured bad weather.
You cannot appreciate how good it is to have peace if you’ve never seen the effects of war.
You cannot appreciate how important it is to love your neighbor as yourself, if you’ve never suffered from people that treat you badly.
You can’t appreciate what you have if you’ve never done without.
You can’t appreciate the value of patience, if you’ve never been made to wait for what you want.
You can’t appreciate how important it is not to lie, if you never suffered from someone that believed lies.
We can’t know the power of love, except that it overcome the suffering of evil. (Jesus loved his enemies and has asked us to do the same, because the only reason why people do evil things is because they believe things that are not true.)
We cannot appreciate that God is the exclusive source and cause of all our happiness, except that we fail to gain happiness in doing the things that God says not to do.
We cannot appreciate the extent of God’s love in willingness to forgive us, except that we do horrible things, and then be forgiven.
We cannot appreciate the extent of God’s love for each of us, except that he save a whole city in spite of it’s evil doings, for the benefit of only the few God loving people in that city (even for only 1!)
And so when we suffer from the doing the things that God hates, we learn to hate them as well. And when we prosper from doing the things that God commands / loves, we learn to love them as well.
God created us so that he would have a family that he could love, and that would love him back. And so God, in his great wisdom, provides an experience of both the things that he loves, and the things that he hates; And after we have all been provided enough of these experiences, then we will all be like God (we are being created in God’s image, we are not already created in his image); And then God will love us, and we will love God, and God will eliminate evil, as it will no longer have any good purpose.
God is a super genius! (understatement) :)
God respects our free will. He does in fact intervene, but He does not violate free will in that process. His intervention is by grace, and through His revelation. Public Revelation is just that, public. It is known throughout the world, and subsists in the Teaching (Magisterium) of the Holy Catholic Church. Since it is known throughout the world, no one has any excuse.
But evil is a deliberate choice. To choose evil is to reject God and goodness. Grace is still available to such a soul, in theory, but in practice, the soul is in a state of deliberately rejecting grace. This is most unfortunate, and the soul who chooses evil does not care.
But as to evil “taking root” in people, implied is a transition from goodness to evil. A person who did not practice evil may be tempted to practice it; that would be the beginning of the process of evil taking root. God clearly does intervene here, by making grace available to such a person. But it is up to that person, with free will, to accept that grace. It may be difficult to fight the temptation, but it is worth it to fight, because the alternative is becoming evil, and if a person does that, there is very little more hope. God always gives the grace to fight it, unless the person has rejected God and all love with finality, which is the Sin against the Holy Spirit.
So the answer is that God does indeed intervene, with grace, and the first grace is to pray. But He does not violate free will, and if a person is bent on evil, God allows them to choose that. It may also be that a person may experience the bad effects of evil on themselves, and not like it, and repent of it; this, too, is grace. It is impossible for anyone to be good, except by God’s grace.