Epicurean Paradox

[TheJackel]

On to the actual quote:
“Is God willing to prevent evil, but not able?
Then he is not omnipotent.

So your GOD creates beasts capable of sinning against his will so he can judge them for it..Like taking zero responsibility for what he himself creates. Ever read the book Island of Dr Monroe? Blaming the beasts of your creations for the wrongs they commit from a position or pure hypocrisy? It's like people blaming the bomb instead of the bomb maker for all those whom had died due to the exploding bomb to the point of even possibly blaming the victims themselves as well.

Evil is the ultimate expression of sin. It is the proof that we indeed have a will outside of God's expressed will. In other words Evil is the proof or ultimate result of free will.

Then your supposed all powerful deity should have created a perfect world incapable of sin rather than bitching and complaining about how wrong it's going according to his Narcissistic Ego and beliefs.. Bad things in the world happen simply because there are 3 governing properties of pretty much any system or state of existence... That's "Positive, negative, and neutral".. Chaos theory son! And it's of natural consequence and has nothing to do with "sin"... And let's be honest, sin is relative concept.. After all, Christian bigotry magically becomes "righteous"..

Is he able, but not willing?
Then he is malevolent.

If we were not given the choices this life affords (including the option to be evil) then we would have simply been created to either spend an eternity with God or to Spend an eternity in Hell. This is the picture of true malevolence. (The souls being created to exist in Hell with no say in the matter) As it is we have been given a choice to be evil or not. No one is forcing us to be evil. It is a choice made in a man's heart apart from the expressed Will of God. Because we have been given a true choice we have to all live with the consequences.

The option should not be given if it's then presented as a ultimatum to which entirely removes the "free will". Hence wasting everyone's time with his ego centric drama, much less the need to have a supposed place of hell to torture those whom don't bow down.. He would be better off just making yes robots.. And btw, the argument of choice is bullshit in your statement because no real choice can be made without total and utter omniscience, and omniscience of any and all infinite consequences in regards to any choice to be made. So unless your GOD want's to grant every human omniscience, your argument is utter nonsensical.

Is he both able and willing?
Then whence cometh evil?

Again, Evil is the proof of Free will. Free Will and the consequences of those choices are the point and purpose of this life. We are to choose where we wish to spend eternity. Without "Sin and Evil" there is not point of been given this existence.

Evil is not proof of free will... The second half of your argument here is proof of the folly of your statement about free will.. Free will means no constraints, no limits, or boundaries of any kind or sort what-so-ever. Do you have the choice to tell your GOD to go fuck himself if he tries to send you to hell? Do you have the free will to be GOD?.. No, so free will is a logical fallacy, or nothing more than a placebo ignorant of the rules and constraints that govern your very existence, or even your own conscious mind..

Is he neither able nor willing?
Then why call him God?”

Because the Title "God" has absolutely nothing to do with how Epicurus nor the person using this quote defines it.

Yeah because the people starving in Sudan deserve it regardless of how much they pray to your idiotic lord.. Tell me, do you starve your children? Do you let them play with guns and knives while you watch TV? The sheer stupidity of the Concept of GOD is mind numbingly sad.. Worst yet, it has everything to do with the "Title" as such a title is nothing more than a concept of pure opinion. The whole concept of GOD is nothing more than a concept of utter opinion to where either all things can be given the title or regarded as a GOD, or that such opinions can by the power of opinion state that there are no such things as GOD's, or worthy of such a title.. The concept of GOD is entirely moot as you may as well worship the dust bunny on my desk... It gets even better when you compare Pantheism with your Christian GOD belief as Pantheism would technically be the top of the totem pole, and that would make everything GOD... AKA A MOOT CONCEPT ENTIRELY!