(June 22, 2016 at 12:57 pm)SteveII Wrote:I made no mention of the "Problem of Evil".(June 22, 2016 at 8:32 am)LostLocke Wrote: By that token.... with omnipotence alone, a maximally good being would be required to prevent all evil in all possible worlds. Since that is not the case in this possible world, that would mean a maximally good being does not exist.
That would be a defeater except the Problem of Evil argument is not successful.
All I'm saying is that if you're saying that a maximally good being is not required to eliminate all evil in all worlds in which it can exist, then a maximally evil being is not required to eliminate all good in all worlds in which it exists.
To state otherwise is just special pleading.