If God exist, why does he reward those that bullied us?

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I am Muslim.

There is mercy and there is justice.
Justice always comes before mercy. This is not followed in life always as in school.
God does not exist ... like magic.
In my mind God is like the natural laws of life.
The bully happens to be in an advantageous position and abuses his power. Like he has a stronger body.
But if the bully has good friends and he is adult, then he will find his place and living good is the best way to live ife.
The way all things follow.

And life is a test.
And it says in the Quran that life and death is a test for us.
Consider that every part in life where you move up or down in the system you must pass through a test.
I think the bulllies are a test too, only that the system fails to make a system out of it and allow chaos to go on.
God has not failed, humans has failed to make use of the laws he has ascribed us.

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KXMode explained it, but maybe too long winded for anyone to read.

If you are talking about a Biblical God, then the rest of the Bible explains he is not running the world, if he was, we wouldnt have to pray for "Gods Kingdom to Come" and "let thy will be done on Earth as in Heaven", not if it was already here.

The Bible says we left God and chose the Devils way, so he is the god of the World at the moment, thats why the wicked do so well, they have god on their side as opposed to Almighty God.

In the book of Daniel, I think it was the Archangel Gabriel that explained why it took him two weeks to reach Daniel, because his way was blocked by a Demon Entity, the Prince of Persia.

At the end, there will be a war between Jesus and his angels, and Satan and his Angels, when Jesus wins it, then the Good will be favoured above the wicked.

First in Heaven:- Revelation 12 v7 And there was war in heaven: Michael and his angels fought against the dragon; and the dragon fought and his angels,

Then on Earth Revelation 19 link

Wars are fought for a reason, usually conquest, this war will be for control of the Earth as God doesnt not at this point control it.

Blame the evil and the suffering of dead babies on god, not God.

The guy who bullied me through grade school died a tragic death 10 years ago. God is looking out for me. I wonder why he doesn't do the same for his believers?

This may not be the greatest news for you, but I don't look to philosophy as a discipline that warrants someone like me to look to experts for the right answers or consensus.

In philosophy, all one basically needs is the ability to think and use logic properly. Studying academic philosophy is good if you want to know all the technical terms and the history and such, but I don't need a consensus to see whether or not the logical argument of evil is a valid argument against God.

It's only an argument against an omnipotent God. Have you used logic properly to ask whether all the attributes assumed for this God entity by mainstream religion actually are innate to the concept or not? The existence of God would be a fact of physics like any other, why then shouldn't God be subject to physical reality and its logical limitations just like the rest of us? In what actions are possible, in what forces are available to exert to do anything. Not omnipotent. Omnipotence is magic. That there is no evidence for magic, stand alongside the 2 strands of evidence for a universal spirit: the intelligent unlikely fits of the physical constants that make the world possible, and when folks seeking help get their own actions guided successfully in ways they did not have within themselves..

A-omni-theism has a long history, going back to the ancient gnostics, because it is more common sense than omnitheism. There is no problem of evil in aomnitheism.

I generally don't think the mainstream exoteric Christian doctrine (NT filtered through OT) does very well at explaining this - ie. the world should have improved in ratio to the size of the church if each believer were strengthening the manifestation of Christ. Most people would have a lot of sarcastic commentary on that, I'd be a bit more lenient and say that the pursuit of spirituality is a good thing but nominal belief or focusing more on doing it in order to not be punished - that's where organized religion poisons itself.

Then again if you ever read up on Hermetic Qabalah, something where evil is treated more as an epiphenomena of ignorance or at worst creating free-floating entities alikened to demons but mainly parts of peoples denser energy breaking away and forming their own autonomy - you're looking at the reality that this is still somewhat of a savage world, not nearly as much as it once was but still is somewhat, and that we have a God whose determined to have us evolve and solve our own problems. Divine intervention would just be enough generally speaking to keep us from blowing up the classroom (ie. Earth) in the case where the negligence of a few doesn't match that of the many.

The good news about that philosophy - if you feel a bit precocious in that regard or feel like you have more transcendental than wordly desires, such as to bring down heaven as much as possible, go with it! Just make sure that you do think through your initiatives in life clearly because miseducated good intentions are just as much of a slag on the world as base or evil intentions.

No one knows.