A being that is necessarily perfectly good would be necessarily constrained from permitting gratuitous suffering, yet a necessarily omnipotent being faces no such constraints, generating a modalcontradiction within the God-property set itself.
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(describing the conflict between God's goodness and omnipotence)
A logical problem where two things that should both be true actually can't both be true at the same time.
necessarily perfectly good(describing a property of God)
Being good in a way that couldn't be otherwise—like how the number 2 couldn't be odd. If something is 'necessarily' good, it's impossible for it to be bad.
omnipotent(Used in the context of arguing about whether multiple omnipotent beings could coexist.)
A being whose will is never thwarted; a being capable of bringing about any willed outcome.