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    It is not the case that God cannot be the agent of evil

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    Reasons For

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    Reason for 1 of 2
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    • 1.God's omnipotence entails that God is the ultimate causal ground of all that exists, including matter and its privative potentialities.
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    • 2.If God creates and sustains matter knowing it will produce privation, God is the proximate cause of the conditions necessary for evil.
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    • 3.Causal responsibility does not require directly producing a thing but extends to deliberately instituting the sufficient conditions for its occurrence.
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    Reason for 2 of 2
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    • 1.Job 45:7 and Isaiah 45:7 explicitly attribute the creation of evil ('ra') to God as a direct divine act, not a mere absence of divine action.
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    • 2.The privation theory re-describes evil as non-being to exculpate God, but this redescription conflicts with scriptural and phenomenological accounts of evil as a positive force causing suffering.
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    • 3.A theodicy that requires redefining evil contrary to ordinary experience and revelation sacrifices explanatory adequacy for theological convenience.
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    Reasons Against

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    • 1.Evil found in nature is due to matter
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    • 2.Evil is a privation, like darkness is the privation of light
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    • 3.As privation, evil is not-being and cannot be brought about by an agent
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