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So this isn't a christian thing, it's reality. Bad exists, usually called suffering. It is called a universal truth in buddhist tradition, and in Christian tradition Jesus was born conceptually from the suffering.
It is the suffering that makes one kind enough to want to cease all suffering, not just their own. It is why the rich cannot enter heaven, they proliferate through the suffering of others while reducing their own solely.
So suffering is the natural existance of things, but humans themselves want to conceive something without it. Rather than plainly embracing the suffering. In embracing, you can choose for what you suffer, why you suffer, and what can truly torment you.
Then again, most people see the story of human suffering as solely this one or the other. Most religions are just artistic interpretation of uncontrollable forces and conceptual enitities rather than literal.
Every ancient god is seen as this but for some reason, onlookers believe it is literal about christianity. Even when Jesus himself denounced being child of god, but child of man. It is the state of civilization, the conciousness of humanity, that creates such things.
If you name your children Jesus, if you speak of a second coming, if you preach about love and compassion. I will be reborn, through the same means korean and hindu mysticism ascends humans into avatars.