If God is the direct cause of natural evils like earthquakes and disease, God's goodness becomes indistinguishable from malevolence, collapsing the concept of divine goodness entirely.
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A causal relation asserted between variables in a structural equation system, such that an intervention on the cause will change the effect.
the problem of evil(Contemporary philosophical terminology)
The family of issues raised by the question of why pain, moral wickedness, and varieties of imperfection exist if a perfectly good and all-powerful God alone created everything in the universe.