(February 1, 2016 at 8:38 pm)Jörmungandr Wrote:(February 1, 2016 at 8:31 pm)Catholic_Lady Wrote: God IS goodness and love. Evil is the absence of these things. The absence of God.
Yes, but is he goodness and love in a way that is incompatible with his omnipotence and the existence of evil, as the riddle asks?
Does his goodness not compel him to act in those places he has denied his beneficence? Or is denying aid not an absence of good?
No. Though atheists like to think so. (It makes the rest of their belief system soooo much easier.)
Plantinga has already shown that the existence of evil is not incompatible with God. Heavy-weight scholars are satisfied with his solution.
Not saying that there won't be a few hard-core outliers (out & out liars?) who still object, but this issue is pretty much all over but the shouting.
Only the uninformed continue squawking along these lines.
