If God is all-powerful and all loving why does He not eliminate evil? The existence of evil is seen as proof or evidence that there is no all powerful, all loving God. The deductive problem is the claim that there is a logical contradiction in asserting that God is all powerful, God is all loving and that evil exists. Wouldn't this kind of God eliminate all evil? The existence of God, on this view, is on an equivalence with a square circle. Given the existence of evil, it is impossible for God to exist. The problem of evil as classically stated is probably unlovable, but people who examine it deeply typically come to one of the following conclusions especially the ones you used in class: .
1. God can do anything. .
2. God knows everything. .
3. God is wholly good. .
4. Therefore a wholly good being eliminates any evil it knows about if it can.
5. If God exists there is not evil. .
6. There is evil.
7. There is no God.
It is logically impossible to believe that both evil and a good and powerful God exist in the same reality, for such a God certainly could and would destroy evil.
When looking at the conclusion of this argument in statement two it states how God is all-powerful and capable of destroying evil, but nowhere in it that does it say to what extent of evil. Which means to God we may really have not committed any serious evils. I've also stated in class that maybe God is giving us chances to clean up and if we do not he will wipe out life forms on earth just like he did when Noah built the ark. Therefore no matter what has happened God has not had the need or is waiting to step in and intervene with life on earth. So no matter how powerful he is he is not going to interact with life and perform irrational acts. The only use God would do with his powers is to create a miracle within reason. Even God cannot "undo the past," or create a square triangle, or make what is false true. He cannot do what is irrational or absurd therefore he would perform stunts that are within reason.