Behold, the weakest defense you will ever read of the "Problem of
Evil", my comments in BOLD. This is a prime example of why
one cannot use logic to "prove" a point if your premises are not
justified:
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" Not only can no mortal assert with
confidence that there can be no good purpose for some suffering, because
we do not know it, but we can affirm with certainty that God does know
the good purpose for all suffering and other evils. Why? Because God is
omniscient, and an all-knowing mind knows everything."
How do you "know" with certainty that God does know the good
purpose? How do you "know" that God is all-knowing?
"Further, God is omnibenevolent, and an all-good God has a good
purpose for everything He does or permits. Hence we know for sure that
there is a good purpose for all suffering – including the apparently
unjust or innocent kinds – even if we do not know it".
How do you "know" for sure that there is a good purpose for all suffering?
"Let’s summarize this reasoning:
1. That we don’t know a good purpose for evil does not mean there is none.
Yep, so what?
2. An all-good God knows a good purpose for everything, including
evil.
How do you "know" there is an all-good God and he knows a good
purpose for everything?
a. Some evil seems to us to have no good purpose.
Yep
b. But an all-good God has a good purpose for everything.
Unsupported by evidence that there IS an all-good God
c. So even evil that seems to have no good purpose does have a good purpose.
Unsupported by above false premise
3. Therefore, there is a good purpose for all suffering, even that
which we cannot now explain.
Above premises are unsupported, thus,
this conclusion is false
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