(August 21, 2023 at 8:04 am)FrustratedFool Wrote: For my response, I'd just say that Evil-God is able to prevent good but prefers to allow it so that the sum total of suffering will be even greater in that people will know what they're missing, and have formed love connections to others, to make their eternal suffering all the worse.
That does seem like a reverse version of what some Christians say: that there must be evil in the world so that we can know what is good.