(January 3, 2010 at 9:54 am)rjh4 Wrote: Specifically, from a Christian perspective given the propositions:
1.God is omnipotent.
2.God is omnibenevolent.
3.God is omniscient.
4.Evil exists
We can draw the conclusion:
5. God has a benevolent reason for the evil that exists.
If God has a benevolent reason for the existence of Evil then it must be because he is unable to achieve his goals in an omnibenevolent way, meaning he is not omnipotent.
If God is omnipotent then he could easily achieve his goals without evil but chooses not to, meaning he is not omnibenevolent.
Your concept of God is either Omnipotent OR Omnibenevolent - it would be illogical for him to be both.
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