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God and Evil

If God is such a nice guy, why is there so much misery and suffering in the world? Kola Abimbola examines an ancient problem.

One of the principal challenges to the belief in God is the problem of evil. J.L. Mackie stated the problem as follows:

…God is omnipotent: God is wholly good, and yet evil exists. There seems to be some contradiction between these three propositions, so that if any two of them were true, the third would be false.

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