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Your personal take on “The Problem of Evil?”
RE: Your personal take on “The Problem of Evil?”
(September 8, 2014 at 6:54 pm)bennyboy Wrote:
(September 8, 2014 at 7:50 am)Pickup_shonuff Wrote: It sounds to me like the previous posts I was responding to and your remarks speak to three different questions altogether:

(1) Whether or not evil can be said to actually exist, (2) whether or not it can be meaningfully qualified and quantified in a universal sense, and (3) whether or not a lesser evil is sometimes necessary to avoid a greater evil.

I'd say yes to all three.
Okay, let's look at the OP with (3) in mind. Would you say that a person (or a God) who is capable of infallibly choosing the lesser evil, and is therefore constantly committing at least some evil, can be called all-good and all-powerful? Or would you say that a truly good creator God must necessarily have it in its power to prevent all evils?

To the first question, no, to the second, yes. I see no compatiblity between the deity of traditional theism and the existence of evil whatever its quality.
He who loves God cannot endeavour that God should love him in return - Baruch Spinoza
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RE: Your personal take on “The Problem of Evil?” - by Endo - September 1, 2014 at 11:56 pm
RE: Your personal take on “The Problem of Evil?” - by Mudhammam - September 8, 2014 at 7:10 pm

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