(February 21, 2016 at 6:24 pm)paulpablo Wrote:(February 21, 2016 at 1:41 pm)Mr.wizard Wrote: But it still does not solve the dilemma of why an Omni benevolent god would allow evil to occur. Its a non-answer, it's the same as saying I don't know.
If you don't believe in god then there's no dilemma, if you do believe in God there's no dilemma if you do believe God works in mysterious ways, or that suffering brings you closer to God or that you simply don't understand the way God works. If there was a definition of God that says he's a being who lets no living thing physically die or suffer then there would be a dilemma. As far as I can tell there's no claim in the bible, Quran or Torah that God is like that.
I see a huge dilemma with an omnibenevolent god allowing or creating evil, it is supposed to be infinitely good. The claim he works in mysterious ways is the same as saying I don't know why god lets that happen.
