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Anonymous Posted 10 years ago
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Please, paraphrase the sentence

Please, paraphrase the following sentences into modern English.
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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?
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Anonymous Please, paraphrase the following sentences into modern English. They are all in modern English except this one: Then whence cometh evil? = Then where does evil come from?

  • Anonymous Please, paraphrase the following sentences into modern English.
  • They are all in modern English except this one: Then whence cometh evil?
  • = Then where does evil come from?
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AnonymousPlease, paraphrase the following sentences into modern English.
They are all in modern English except this one:

Then whence cometh evil? = Then where does evil come from?
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That is a famous quotation from Epicurus, a Greek philosopher.
He looks at the 4 combinations of two ideas to examine the existence of a good, all-powerful ***.
1. the power of *** to prevent evil, and
2. ***'s willingness to prevent evil.

Here is his argument:
If *** cannot prevent evil, then he cannot be all-powerful. (If he were, he could prevent evil.)
If *** can

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