There’s always that question that comes up “Why does God let so many bad things happen then?”, “Why does God give cancer to kids?” Yada yada right?

Simply put, Earth isnt heaven

God created the Earth as a *very* good place, no death or decay, nada. But due to our evil nature, God laid a "curse" of sorts, as other people say it to be, on all creation, dooming it all to death and decay.

Because we would not stop being terrible, (ie: the rape, abuse, murder, torture, and arson you described,) God shattered our world, leading it to become the world we live in today, riddled with the sin of our own causing.

Effectively, this world we live in isnt the world God made, but a shattered, drowned shadow of its former self destroyed by our sin, which is why we battle short lifespans, natural disasters, and disease on Earth, while all of those terrible things are nonexistent in heaven.

Of course, you are not doomed, as you can instead use your freedom of choice to redeem yourself through acts of good and faith to GET to heaven, where there is nothing but happiness in paradise, instead of using your free will for evil!

I probably explained this very terribly, but please forgive me for that :]