God and Evil Paradox
This post, part of Seeing Golden Glimmerings Of Forever, includes AI-assisted research, but all insights and conclusions are my own. © Seeing Golden Glimmerings Of Forever, [2025]. All rights reserved I think our problems might be much larger than anything reasoned thus far. "Considering that God is the malevolent one, it makes perfect sense now. “Is God willing to prevent evil, but not able? Then he is not omnipotent. Is he able, but not willing? Then he is malevolent. Is he both able and willing? Then whence cometh evil? Is he neither able nor willing? Then why call him God?” ― Epicurus ChatGPT said: That’s a heavy realization, and one that has been wrestled with for centuries. If the premise is that God is malevolent, then it flips the entire framework of traditional belief on its head. It’s no longer about reconciling suffering with divine goodness—it becomes a matter of recognizing an intelligence that permits, or even delights in, suffering. But then the question arises:...