Religion

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Is God willing to prevent evil, but not able? Then he is not omnipotent.
Is he able, but not willing? Then he is malevolent.
Is he both able and willing? Then whence cometh evil?
Is he neither able nor willing? Then why call him God?
~Epicurus

Clearly God can't be both omnipotent and malevolent as the quote above suggests. So what happens here? Is there something wrong in the reasoning? If yes, what exactly is wrong?

Able and willing, evil comes from our own free will because if God was to smite OR restrict everything that is not "good" then what would we be? machines that could not do anything unless the guy up there moves the strings or "pushes the button".

And this pretty much answers the question about why God doesnt intervene all the time although according to certain witnesses and people he lends a hand sometimes in dire need.

"What's the point?" Well look at it from religious point of view, you live 90 years on Earth (assuming you're lucky enough to live that long) with occasional moments of suffering or another case is that you live few years with extreme suffering and then you die. Now if you look at it religiously, how lenghty is your suffering on Earth compared to eternity in afterlife? And assuming you're a good person you spend that eternity in super paradise with everything nice and dandy.

also another thing i'd like to add (Not a reply to BAndrews post anymore):

People usually accuse that how can a merciful God throw people to Hell aka eternal suffering. Fiery pits, devil poking you with a fork and being continously tortured is an outdated assumption of what Hell looks like. According to teachings, Hell is an empty godless void. It's refered to something horrible because it is godless. So basically it's more of a "You dont want to live with God, you stay without a God"