The starker of these two is called the “logical” problem of evil, and claims that there is a straightforward contradiction between the existence of evil and the existence of a perfectly good, all-powerful, and all-knowing God. The thought is that a God who was perfectly good would want to avoid any evil that He knew about and could avoid. But the God we’re considering knows everything and can do anything, so there can’t be any evil that escapes His notice or His power. Yet we see that there is evil. Thus God, at least as described, doesn’t exist. Since the God of Judaism, Christianity, and
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