• FourPacketsOfPeanuts@lemmy.world
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      8 hours ago

      While obviously unsatisfying the resolution to the Epicurean paradox is that evil serves a good purpose that is unknown to us but known to God.

      Like a child screaming when a cut is disinfected by a parent. The pain is incomprehensible to a small child. So we too are “small spiritual children”, and the grotesque pain of the world serves as some sort of refining process that is incomprehensible to us.

      Or so the thinking goes…

      • Sterile_Technique@lemmy.world
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        2 hours ago

        Disagree - that implies God is all knowing and all good, but not all powerful. If he was all powerful, he wouldn’t need to resort to using evil at all, even it’s just a tool to accomplish good.

        If he was all three, the child wouldn’t be cut in the first place.