Biblical Answer to Theodicy

"Christ gave Himself for our sins,

Galatians 1
⁴ …that He might deliver us from this present evil world.

He will take from us that which He bought, which is our sinfulness. In so doing, He delivers us from this “present evil world.” That shows us that “this present evil world” is nothing but our own sinful selves. It is:

1 John 2
¹⁶ …the lust of the flesh, and the lust of the eyes, and the pride of life.

We ourselves make all the evil there is in the world. It is man that has made the world evil.

Romans 5

¹² By one man sin entered into the world, and death by sin; and so death passed upon all men, for that all have sinned.

We need not try to throw the blame upon somebody else; we ourselves provide all the evil that can possibly injure us."  

E.J. Waggoner