Your personal take on “The Problem of Evil?”

[bennyboy]

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?