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The Problem of Evil: Why Is There Evil if a Good God Exists? | Prof. Gloria Frost

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God's Ultimate Will Is to Save Human Beings

The evil suffered by human beings is not something God allows for the sake of a good for the universe as the whole, says Thomas Aquinas. For our physical death and suffering is a consequence that God allows to follow from our first parents, he writes. But bodily corruption and natural death are not the only sorts of evils humans suffer in this world, argues Aquinas.

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