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    Supports→If evil and suffering exist forever beside God, then God will not make evil and suffering new

    If suffering exists eternally beside God, the metaphysical conditions generating suffering are never abolished, contradicting the entailment of genuine novelty in divine re-creation.

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    Abolished(describing what would need to happen to the conditions generating suffering)
    Completely done away with or eliminated.
    Conditions(the statement discusses what conditions would allow x and y to be identical)
    Circumstances or requirements that would need to be present for something to happen or be true.
    Divine Re-creation(God's ability to make fundamental changes to reality)
    The idea that God could create or remake the world again, potentially in a new or different way.
    Eternal/Eternally(describing how long suffering might persist)
    Existing forever, without beginning or end in time.
    Genuine Novelty(the kind of creative power being attributed to God)

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    God(Classical theism; used to fix the referent of 'G' in the Bayesian formulation)
    An eternal, personal being of maximal power, knowledge, and goodness who created the universe
    Suffering(Buddhist soteriology)
    The non-satisfaction of desire
    entailment(Conceptualist framework)
    Understood in terms of truth at a world
    metaphysical(Ayer's Logical Positivist usage)
    Language that purports to refer beyond the physical world and lacks empirical consequences, which Ayer classifies as not literally significant

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