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The Problem of Evil and Suffering

In the Arena: The Debates and Lectures of William Lane Craig

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God and Evil Are Logically Consistent

I think it's not at all improbable that God sometimes may permit physical suffering in our lives like disease or accidents or mishap. So you're right, he could make a deterministic world that would be free of suffering without directly affecting the evil in the world. And I think we can actually prove that God and evil are logically compatible. All we have to do is find some third statement which is compatible with A and entail speed. As long as C is possibly true and consistent with A, then it will entail B and show A and B to be consistent.

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