Why did God leave Abel to be murdered?

🔥The question: “If God could not protect even good Abel, what use is believing in God?”

🛡️The Church's answer: It does not mean God wanted Abel murdered. Catholic faith holds that God neither commands evil nor delights in it, but that because God gave human beings real freedom, God permits even the horrific misuse of that freedom. We cannot claim to know fully why God did not stop it at that moment. In the text God warns Cain to stop, declares that Abel's blood cries out for justice, and halts the spiral of revenge as well. Believing in God is not buying a guarantee that good people are always safe; it is holding on to the promise that the victim is not forgotten and that evil and death are not the last word.

🧐If they press further: “So God only watched?” — The Bible does not resolve every ‘why’ of suffering in easy words. What it does testify is that God does not forget the victim, holds the perpetrator to account, and in Jesus stands beside the victims of violence and overcomes death itself.

✨In one sentence: “The story of Cain does not say that God permits murder; it indicts the violence and revenge that come of abusing freedom, and says God does not forget the victim's blood.”