What is the biblical basis for the logical Problem of Evil?
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God's Omniscience, Psalm 147:5 states:
Great is our Lord, and abundant in power; his understanding is beyond measure.
God's Omnipotence, Jeremiah 32:17 states:
‘Ah, Lord God! It is you who have made the heavens and the earth by your great power and by your outstretched arm! Nothing is too hard for you.
God's Omnipresence,
The whole of Psalm 139 is a great testament to God's Omnipresence and Omnipotence.
Of course there are numerous other verses also.
God's Omnibenevolence is a little trickier. It is a word that is primarily used in reference to the problem of evil. (see Wikipedia: Omnibenevolence).
But generally it can be taken to mean that God is perfectly good, rather than the more ambiguous 'infinitely good', which is also accepted and justified biblically in passages referring to his Grace and Mercy etc. (Romans 3:23-24, Peter 1:3-4 and others).
However, as Alvin Plantinga has shown, being perfectly good does not entail that only good should exist.
Some of the drivers for the problem of evil seem to assert that a perfectly good God should seek to prevent evil in all cases. But this would be a logical argument based on the acceptance of God's attributes described above.
Biblically, it is simply true that God and evil coexist. Hence, the problem of evil is a logical argument. It's only biblical basis would be the affirmation of God's attributes described above.
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Good evening, I have broken your question down and cited the relevant scriptural response.
What is the biblical basis that such a logical problem exists?
The bible acknowledges that the world is currently under the power of the evil one thus raising the question of why is evil granted any power?:
19 We know that we are God’s children, and that the whole world lies under the power of the evil one. 1 John 5:19
More specifically, what is the biblical basis that God has unlimited power?
Psalm 147:4-5 He determines the number of the stars; he gives to all of them their names. Great is our Lord, and abundant in power; his understanding is beyond measure.
What is the biblical basis that God has the capacity to know everything that there is to know?
1 John 3:20 For whenever our heart condemns us, God is greater than our heart, and he knows everything.
Psalm 147:5 Great is our Lord, and abundant in power; his understanding is beyond measure.
Isaiah 40:28 Have you not known? Have you not heard? The Lord is the everlasting God, the Creator of the ends of the earth. He does not faint or grow weary; his understanding is unsearchable.
What is the biblical basis that God has unlimited or infinite good will or disposition to do good?
Job 34:10 ‘Therefore, hear me, you who have sense, far be it from God that he should do wickedness, and from the Almighty that he should do wrong.
“The Rock! His work is perfect, For all His ways are just; a God of faithfulness and without injustice, righteous and upright is He," (Deut. 32:4).
"Thine eyes are too pure to approve evil, and Thou canst not look on wickedness with favor," (Hab. 1:13).
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