>Remember that for contrapositives, you swap the position of
>the two sides of the equation and negate both sides.

Mayne, I thought I was on a roll. Yes, I see my mistakes.

>>Epicurus' third question isn't a characterization of God,
>>he's asking if God is willing to stop evil and is able to
>>stop evil...why is there still evil? Maybe God isn't
>>willing to stop evil.
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>Not sure what you mean. Are you saying that God is
>omnipotent and therefore able to stop evil, but doesn't,
>because he is not willing? Then that would fall in
>Epicurus's category that God is malevolent.

God is omnipotent, put God is also a God of order. God gave mankind dominion over the Earth. God's the owner, we're the managers. Mismanagement falls squarely on the shoulders of the manager. The owner can only be blamed if they don't find new managers before the establishment goes to crap...but that day of reckoning is coming.

>This is a good point. But didn't God create evil, since he
>created everything? If we are evil, it is because God made
>us that way. Because even if Satan tempted us, God created
>Satan, so in the end, God is still responsible for evil...

I don't think God created evil directly, it exists only because we allow it to exist (because of our free will). Again, it comes down to our having dominion over the Earth. If we really wanted to get rid of the evils in the world, we could. As far as Satan goes, we have power over him...if we yield to his temptation, that's on us not God.