Why is There Evil in the World? A Theory

Why do diseases like cancer, AIDS, hemophilia, malaria, etc. still exist?  Why haven't we found a cure?  Doesn't God care?

Why do we still have such brutal wars, killing one another over (in the grand scheme) nothing?  Why hasn't God stepped in to stop it?

Why do so many bad things happen in this world?  Doesn't God love us? 

I'll posit a theory.  We killed the man who would have discovered the cure for cancer.  That was back in 1982.  We killed the woman who would have cured AIDS just a few years after that in '89.  And back in the early 70s, we killed the person who would have been the diplomat who ushered in peace to this world, ending war as we've known it. 

We killed them ... all of them ... before they could do what they were "born" to do. 

It was murder, plain and simple.

We have killed almost 60 million people because we think/feel that we had the right.  And that "right" was all that mattered.  Nothing concrete to back this up ... we just "think" we had the right.  And we continue to kill the very people who will solve other problems we face, hundreds maybe thousands per day ... each and every day.   Why?  Why do we do this?   And why hasn't God stopped this?

One answer:  Free Will.

A relationship can not exist without allowing for the choice to either love someone or reject them. God knows this, so He created us that way to meet this beautiful purpose.  God loves every one of us, but we have the choice - the free will - to love Him back, say we hate Him, or even go so far as to say He doesn't even exist.  It's up to us. 

Although necessary, free will is dangerous.  It gives us the latitude to do some horrible things.  To physically harm people for enjoyment.  To steal.  To cheat.  To lie.  To kill.

Here's the theory.  God DID help us, but we stopped Him.  God blessed one individual back in the early 70s with the ability to stop war, but we killed Him.  God sent another few in '82 and '89, but we killed those people, too.  They had the answers.

What if ...

What if all the people who could have saved us were slaughtered long before they could act ... killed before they were ever born because we believed it wasn't really a life until 25 weeks?  That our Right to Choose was more important than the new life's right to live? 

What a horrible thought.