Theist View On The Relationship Between Good And Evil Research Paper

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Theist could also argue that God is flawlessly allowed; God is unconditionally free either in the sense that nothing external he can regulate him to do a specific action, or in the sense that it is always inside his control not to do what he does. Therefore, he has the skill and supremacy to do something about the problem but choose not, he has the choice to stop the evil but does not. Someone would ask themselves what kind of God that allows evil to happen, pain, and suffering. He is the God that has the ability and power to stop evil if he chooses to do so not to do something because people are expecting him to do so.

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