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    A theodicy that requires redefining evil contrary to ordi... — Carmelics
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    Challenges→God cannot be the agent of evil

    A theodicy that requires redefining evil contrary to ordinary experience and revelation sacrifices explanatory adequacy for theological convenience.

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    • 1.Ordinary experience demonstrates genuine suffering that resists reinterpretation: child cancer, torture, and betrayal cause real harm independent of conceptual frameworks.
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    • 2.If a theodicy requires denying what revelation explicitly describes as evil (e.g., Satan's rebellion, divine judgment on sin), it contradicts its own textual foundation.
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    • 3.A theory that preserves God's omnipotence only by redefining 'evil' has abandoned solving the original problem and merely changed the subject linguistically.
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    • 1.Ordinary experience itself is philosophically contested: pain's moral meaning depends on interpretation, and revelation requires scholarly interpretation regardless.
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    • 2.Some reframings clarify rather than obscure—distinguishing natural consequences from metaphysical evil may expand explanatory power, not sacrifice it.
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    • 3.The claim assumes current conceptual schemes capture reality completely; but theodicies may legitimately propose that transcendent goods justify suffering we genuinely experience.
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