Abstract
Abstract Sterba begins with a fourfold classification of all the goods that God could provide and sets out three necessary moral prevention requirements that are exceptionless minimal components of the Pauline Principle. He applies these requirements to his classification of the goods that God could provide. He concludes that any God that exists would have to be in widespread violation of these moral evil prevention requirements and so could not be the God of traditional theism. The God of traditional theism should have prevented the horrendous evil consequences of immoral actions, but not other evil consequences for which we would have complete responsibility so as not to be in a moral kindergarten. Sterba also discusses natural evil, distinguishes between an ethics before creation and an ethics after creation, and considers the possibility of a God who is good but not morally good or is limited with respect to goodness and/or power.
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