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#640 – DIALOGUE: Does evil disprove God? (with Alex O’Connor, Joe Schmid, and Cameron Bertuzzi)

The Counsel of Trent

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Is God All Powerful?

I guess it depends on what you mean by all powerful. I think god could make a world where only free creatures choose things, but it would also lack certain goods. And so it may be the case god has reasons for allowing certain goods like compassion or courage. To me, something like bravery is only good in so far as it overcomes som some form of suffering or evil. It seems only good relative to the existence of some form of fear and suffering. Without far and suffering, it wouldn't be intrinsically good. In fact, if you removed the fear and suffering and somebody was still acting in the way that a brave person would actouyou say, thet were just being like

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