ffear :
Regarding P1:there seems to be a misinterpretation. The paradox never claims that God MUST eliminate evil. It is a logical question: if God is good and can prevent evil, why does evil exist? The argument in the video tries to deflect this by saying "God may have a morally sufficient reason," but that does not answer the question , it only avoids it. The paradox does not demand that God act; it asks why He does not act. It points out that it would make no sense for a perfectly good God to create a world with the possibility of evil if He could have chosen a path of goodness and, through His omnipotence, prevented the emergence of evil. The paradox places its focus at the very beginning of the narrative ,not on intervention ("MUST").
Regarding P2 :Aqui. view is excellent, but it has flaws: If evil is merely the "privation of good," then why was the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil already present in Eden? Evil already existed as a real possibility before the first sin. This shows that evil is not merely absence, it is an option that God created from the very beginning. Evil is the opposite of good; being an opposite does not necessarily imply deriving from it.
Regarding P3: perfect, but we still have natural evil. The argument only "answers" the evil committed by human actions.
The rest of the argument is acceptable to some extent, but the fact is: when free will is brought up, we can criticize not only omnibenevolence and omnipotence, but also omniscience. If God is omniscient, He is aware of our choices before we even make them ,even before we are born, God already knows everything. Yet He does not intervene to prevent evil (which conflicts with omnipotence and, above all, omnibenevolence).
Having knowledge of something and of its outcomes, when applied to God, conflicts not only with the three main attributes, but also with free will itself. For if there is foreknowledge, if there is destiny, then free will does not truly exist, and that also invalidates the response regarding evil committed by humans.
2026-07-18 14:35:56