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asdf8562 posted...

You are only proving my point that the logic with those who hide behind the "free will" argument. If your angle is "freedom", then problem stands:
* Is God willing to prevent evil and cruelty, but not able? Then God is not omnipotent.
* Is God able, but not willing? Then this God is malevolent.
* Is God both able and willing? Given God is sitting on their ass with cancer and rape..... ya, pretty malevolent.
* Is God neither able nor willing? Then this being is not the all powerful God hes hyped up to be.
Under the "freedom" angle the above still stands as said God isnt actually all powerful all knowing, OR God is those things and chose in his malevolent nature decided to intentionally design something to be flawed and cruel.

I think the better way to tackle this is things free will cant possibly have a hand in. Like children dying of cancer. Nobody wills kids to get cancer, etc. It just happens.

Thats the sort of thing youd expect an omnipotent, omnipresent, benevolent deity to have a hand in. Hell, while Im at it, why does cancer exist? At least as far as we know, it isnt the case that some evildoer cooked up cancer in a lab and God had to let it happen to preserve free will.

Spontaneously existing non-communicable diseases that cause widespread harm seem exactly Gods domain. No consideration of free will, and if he designed the world, why do they exist in it?