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Ping Tung

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15. How is it that an "omnipotent", "Omniscient, and " Omnipresent" God needs protecting.

Reply to riversedge (Original post)

Sun Nov 9, 2025, 03:31 PM

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“Is God willing to prevent evil, but not able? Then he is not omnipotent.
Is he able, but not willing? Then he is malevolent.
Is he both able and willing? Then whence cometh evil?
Is he neither able nor willing? Then why call him God?”

― Epicurus 341 - 270 BC

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My First Thought, Too ProfessorGAC Sunday #17

Good thing they're not worried about logic. :) Solly Mack Sunday #19

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