Serious question for theists: [Spirituality & Religion]

I know on this site I'm mostly known as one of those edgy atheists who make fun of religion and its followers all the time, but I do have a genuine question for the theists on this site:

How can you still believe there is an all-powerful, all-good god while looking at the world as it is?
Whenever I think about all the crazy and horrible stuff that happened and is going on the world rn I just [i]know[/i] that there cannot be a god who is omnipotent as well as omnibenevolent. It just doesn't add up.
Please don't be offended, I'm just genuinely curious.

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Doomflower · 36-40, M

Ex Christian and strong atheist here but it will be "free will"

BlueVeins · 22-25

@Doomflower Hundred percent. Sad thing, too.

Doomflower · 36-40, M

@BlueVeins yeah. Nevermind that a good deal of evil has nothing to do with human decision making.

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Doomflower · 36-40, M

@Emosaur I had a Christian once christsplain that when Adam and Eve made that one decision of which god didn't approve and god cursed them, natural disasters were implied when he said the earth would not just easily provide food and humans would have to struggle against the elements. I thought it was a pretty good retcon.