asaris

I'm with you on that, at least if you take the three statements to mean:

1. God can do anything whatsoever, even the logically impossible.
2. God only does nice things.

It would, I think, be hard to disagree with the third.

But I take the first two to mean:

1. God can do anything that is actually something. NOT the logically impossible. As C.S. Lewis wrote, "Nonsense doesn't stop being nonsense by placing the words 'God can' in front of it."

2. God only does good things.

I think alot of atheists (and, to be fair, alot of Christians) read these premises the first way, in which case you do have problems with the existence of evil.

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