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>>16419348
He does not exist or He is not supreme.
>>16419349
I don't know if you think that is a point, but it is not one. No God existing while good or bad things happen is not a problem. God existing as a supreme being who is omnibenevolent/omnipotent/omniscient while evils are allowed to happen is the problem.
>>16419416
Good question, actually.
>>16419365
If He is omnipotent, then presumably He could experience what it means to struggle for something out of your reach without needing to prove his abilities.
>>16419387
>>16419624
Explain. If you mean because God gave us have free will (presuming free will is a cohesive concept and that we do have it), then why does he allow natural disasters to happen?
>>16419702
>>16419847
>bad things aren't bad
That is a possible explanation, but there is no reason to accept it. If we cannot understand God's doings and His morality behind it, then we can only accept on faith alone that what He is doing is omnibenevolent.
>>16419795
>>16419983
God is assumed to be the supreme and omnibenevolent among some other qualities. How could he be omnibenevolent with all the terrible evils in the world? God might not be supreme in these ways, and that could solve the problem.
>>16419709
A small amount of time of an experience =/= that experience did not exist. By that argument, everything that has happened since the universe began is nothing (x billion years of everything that has happened / infinity = 0).
>>16419848
Can you provide an argument for that point?
>>16419716
>>16419854
>>16419861
Then He is not omnibenevolent.
>>16419857
In this question, what is significant is that He is the supreme being who is omnibenevolent, omnipotent, and omniscient. There are other qualities that are believed, too, obviously, but they are less relevant here.
>>16419965
>In order to know how to play golf and do gymnastics, one needs to have a body.
That is the premise everyone will have trouble accepted.