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    It is not the case that When one conceives of God as unlimited with respect to power, knowledge, and moral goodness, the existence of evil quickly gives rise to potentially serious arguments against the existence of God.

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    • 1.Alvin Plantinga's free will defense shows that even granting omnipotence and omniscience, it may be impossible for God to create free creatures who always choose good.
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    • 2.If the co-existence of God and evil is logically possible, then evil's existence does not generate a 'serious argument' but merely an emotional or probabilistic challenge.
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    • 3.The claim conflates logical and evidential versions of the problem, overstating how quickly evil gives rise to arguments that threaten classical theism's internal coherence.
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    • 1.Many classical theists (Aquinas, Maimonides) deny that God is 'unlimited' in the sense of possessing maximal discrete properties, making the framing a category error.
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    • 2.If divine omnipotence means 'able to do what is logically possible' rather than 'unlimited power,' the argument from evil loses much of its initial force.
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    • 1.The argument from evil may or may not be sound, since one or more of its premises may be false.
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    • 2.Nevertheless, conceiving of God as all-powerful, all-knowing, and perfectly good makes the existence of evil a basis for formulating such arguments.
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    • 1.The argument from evil may or may not be sound, since one or more of its premises may be false.
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    • 2.Nevertheless, the conception of God as unlimited in power, knowledge, and moral goodness combined with the existence of evil generates such arguments.
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