Abstract

The problem of evil is the most difficult confronting the theist, and the existence of evil has always been cited by atheists as the most persuasive fact in support of their disbelief. How, it has been demanded, can evil in any form be thought compatible with divine goodness, omniscience and omnipotence? If everything that happens is in any sense God’s act, if all reality and occurrence is the effect of God’s power and will, he must be the ultimate cause of all error and evil, the reality of which none can plausibly deny. How, then, can God be at once omnipotent and benevolent?

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