People will believe what they want. You could be in a hurricane and have every home around you blown to shit but yours and you can say God saved you. But then why didn't God save the others? The generic bullshit having no answer response is "God has a plan". You have to love that blanket statement.
Just go to a children's hospital and visit the burn center or cancer ward, then walk away thinking if there was a God, what kind of asshole is he to allow this happen.
Then go to a prison and see how strong and healthy these scum of the earth are and wonder why aren't they the ones in the burn and cancer ward. Gods plan? A plan to have a three year old suffer their short lives to die? Come one man.
The classic problem of evil.
Of course the evil of men is easy to dismiss if we simply chalk it up to the choices they were free to make on their own....God had nothing to do with it.
Although what of natural disasters....men didn't choose that. Storm in the Phillipines recently claimed 2000 lives.....why would God allow that? The sin in our lives effects more than our bodies and souls, it impacts this world we live in. God uses the whole of his creation to reveal the need for his Son Jesus Christ. This world will remain in a perpetual state of decay until Christ's return. God works within the confines of our lives and choices we make to help us draw closer to him and his will for our lives. We can either draw close to him and submit or continue to rebel and perpetuate the decay.
We see the effects of natural disasters and broadcast them worldwide, but we we rarely see or even comprehend the far reaching goodness that later results. For every life that was taken in a moment of disaster how many were saved, how many acts of kindness were undertaken, how many lives were changes and motivated for good? How many acts of repentance took place? How many souls were saved? God stepped in before and punished other civilizations for their sinful ways using the very creation that we set into a state of decay. Perhaps the disasters we encounter that grab our attention are meant for exactly that.....to get our freakin attention!!
Disease is also a part of the ravages of sin. We weren't created with disease, we were deemed good. We brought disease into our lives via our sin.
My wife's coworker lost her baby granddaughter tragically in an accident caused by her son (the child's uncle). The child's mother was devastated as was her brother who was responsible for the accident, but in a moment of sheer grace and love the mother completely forgave her brother. While on their knees within this moment my wife's coworker snapped a picture of the two of them on their knees in an embrace in the child's room. At the child's funeral the child's estranged biker father came with his entire biker gang with intents of killing his brother in law because of the death of his daughter. At the funeral service the mother shared Christ with the crowd and the forgiveness and love she had for her brother. They showed a slide show of the life of the young child that was taken and the precious image capture by their mother on their knees in the child's room. That day the entire biker gang dedicated their lives to Christ and forgave the brother.
Sometimes the evil we perceive in our lives, when put in the hands of God, can change lives in powerful positive ways we'd never expect.