Nice.
This is one of the pinnacle atheist straw man arguments.
And for one thing, when God made the world, it was perfect! There was no sin, no death, no suffering. It was perfect, it was great. Mankind lived in God, and with God, and were therefore perfect, because that is what God is. God is perfect, He is life, peace, and righteousness. But it was by man's sin, that the world fell into despair, and tragedy. It was by Free Will, that sin entered the world, and by then, mankind fell away from God (away from perfection).
We allowed to let this world to fall, and we sin DAILY. We deserve to die in disgrace, and to be cast into ever-burning Hellfire. But God was gracious, and loving enough to give us a second chance, so He gave us Jesus Christ.
It is God that kept the world from suffering, and it is man that brought it away from that, and then came death.
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