... the world. God exists. God is Omnipotent, Omniscience and Benevolent.' To begin we will deal with whether evil exists as that is what all arguments concerned hinge upon. If evil exists then the contention is that a good God cannot. If it can be logically proved that evil doesn't exist then the phenomena doesn't pose a problem for the theist who believes God does indeed exist. It has been argued that evil is an illusion but this is rather detached form the harsh reality of human suffering that we see and hear about across the world everyday. The wars, diseases, earthquakes, the human torture and the drugs seem too real to be an illusion. The sheer quantity of evil is proof of it's existence. Evil is a definite reality because it causes pain and takes lives. This weighs heavily on the side of God's non-existence. However, this has been taken by some to ...

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