Many years ago a professor in my college philosophy class walked to the blackboard and wrote out a set of questions concerning the power of God and the nature of evil posed by the Greek philosopher Epicurus: • Is He willing to prevent evil, but not able? then is He impotent. • Is He able, but not willing? then is He malevolent.
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