(October 29, 2015 at 8:46 am)Nestor Wrote: What difference does all of this hairsplitting make with respect to the evidential problem of evil? Your larger error is that you concede that God's malevolence is accurately characterized in the biblical flood myth yet insist that this doesn't imply that he isn't all good.
Lack of benevolence does not equal malevolence. A judge can sentence a criminal with neither benevolence or malevolence.