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    Challenges→If God is conceived in a purely metaphysical way with no connection to significant power, knowledge, and goodness, then the problem of evil is irrelevant to that conception of God.

    A God identified with Being-itself or ultimate reality cannot be fully insulated from normative assessment, since existence-conferring relations carry implicit axiological commitments that evil disrupts.

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    Key Terms

    Axiological(as used in ethics)
    Relating to values and what makes things good or bad; from the Greek word 'axios' meaning worthy or valuable.
    Being-itself(refers to a philosophical/theological concept of God)
    The most fundamental reality or existence that underlies everything else—what some philosophers and theologians think of as the ultimate ground of all things.
    Existence-conferring relations(the idea that when God creates or sustains things, this creates implicit values)
    Relationships or connections that bring things into being or give them reality; the way one thing makes another thing exist.
    Implicit(describing how the categorial structure operates in perception)
    Present or involved in something, but not directly stated or obvious—working in the background without being explicitly acknowledged.

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    Insulated from(the statement says God cannot be isolated from moral judgment)
    Protected or separated from something; kept away from or unaffected by something.
    Normative assessment(refers to assessing God morally or ethically)
    Judging something according to standards of what is right, wrong, good, or bad—making a moral or ethical evaluation.
    evil(Spencer's naturalistic definition grounding evil in biological mismatch rather than moral or theological categories)
    The non-adaptation of constitution to conditions
    ultimate reality(Bradley 1893: 136 [1897: 120])
    That which does not contradict itself; the standard of non-contradiction serves as an absolute criterion for what qualifies as ultimately real.

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