If I knew god existed, I would ask him why he let the world get into such a state, and which of omnipotent, benevolent and omniscient he is not
And why did he allow that? Because he allows us free will, and he allows us the consequences of our free will. That is, he chooses to restrain his omnipotence.
I'm going to guess that you find that to be a "just so" story. But it's not as simple a story as you made it.
And if you don't think God exists, then many of the problems - war and pollution and exploitation and violence - are still our doing. We don't escape.
You probably assume that. But recognize that you are, in fact, assuming that - that they all are not from God or gods.
Every sect considers their holy book(s) to be from god, so that claim is meaningless unless you are a member of that sect.
In terms of explaining "why does god allow evil to happen", that's the answer given by a subset of Christian sects. It's far from the only answer given by all religions (and nonreligious philosophies), or even all Christians.
I was just pointing out that you were offering only one of many different answers. Since god has yet to offer any unambiguous explanations or clarifications, it's probably wise to be aware that there is no one accepted answer here.
But of course there are two problems. 1) There are so many claims, how do you check them all? 2) How do you actually check even one of them? What is your criterion for deciding?
> Since god has yet to offer any unambiguous explanations or clarifications...
Has he? That's the question. You're assuming the answer. (Unless you're leaning on "unambiguous", and saying that, since there's no one clear book, there's no unambiguous answer.)
No. The gospels were not actually written by the apostles. All of the academic and historical evidence suggests that they were written by anonymous authors writing in the name of the apostles (which was a common thing at the time) about a century after Jesus' death.
https://www.reddit.com/r/religion/comments/13b8zj9/are_the_4...
But then you get to II Timothy 3:16, which says, "All Scripture is inspired by God and profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, for training in righteousness". It claims that God inspired the authors. That kind of bootstraps the rest of the book into "God said" territory.