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Maybe as intriguing question as "why does evil exist if there is a God?" might be "why does good exists if there is not a God?" To put it another way. Is it any more intellectually honest to trust there is no God since evil exists, than it is to trust there is a God because good exists? Just something I was puzzling myself about... If God is willing and able to produce good, than that being is benevolent.




Rather than being malevolent if God is able, but not willing to stop evil, God might be labeled slow to anger or slow to exterminate the cause of human suffering (other humans). Certainly, human history is allowed its tragedy and ambiguity.