"God has morally sufficient reasons for permitting evil"

[bennyboy]

@Benny The main problem is that your example of a human parent ignores all of the limits humans have, bith as children and as adults. A being with omnipotence and omniscience has no such limits, so treating it as if it did is a sort of equivoation.

Also, if by evil you mean suffering, then it isn't question-begging to say God, if he exists, allows for suffering. After all, you're just defining what you mean by the term.

If "evil" just means anything that people see as bad, then there is plenty of evil. But if that's all it means, it sounds like it's just a catch-all word people made to talk about stuff they dislike.

If "evil" is not synonymous with "suffering," then the Omni-3 argument doesn't necessarily hold. Morality implies a good goal, and suffering is not necessarily an impediment to, or a failure of, Cosmic goals, whatever they might be.