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    Supports→Attributing world badness directly to God undermines God's goodness

    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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    Key Terms

    Divine goodness(in philosophy of religion and theology)
    The quality of being morally good or perfect, specifically when talking about God or a divine being.
    Indistinguishable(metaphysics and epistemology)
    Unable to be told apart or recognized as different; if two things are indistinguishable, there is no way to separate or identify them as distinct.
    Malevolence(as used in ethics and theology)
    The quality of being evil, cruel, or wishing harm on others; the opposite of goodness.
    Natural evils(in philosophy of religion)
    Bad things that happen in nature and aren't caused by human choices, like diseases, earthquakes, or suffering from accidents.
    direct cause(Used to distinguish the causal claims of systems (1)–(2) versus (1)–(3))

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    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.

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