From: utzoo!watmath!djhawley
Newsgroups: net.religion
Title: Re: God contains both good and evil
Article-I.D.: watmath.4586
Posted: Mon Feb 21 11:18:05 1983
Received: Tue Feb 22 00:52:42 1983
References: brunix.1614

I think I detect a misunderstanding. Traditional christian theology
considers God transcendent, ie there are two classes :
    1) God, the creator
    2) Everything else, the created
 
So God is not everything. The classic "problem of evil" tackles the
question of the following set of ?incompatible? propositions
 
    1) God is all-powerful
    2) God is all-good
    3) Evil exists
 
There are a number of possible approaches to "explaining away" the
?incompatibility?. But I'll leave it to others....( if Exists(interest) ).

                    
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