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Evil, a God which is omnipotent and a God which is morally perfect; the problem of evil is the problem that revolves around the co-existence of the above. Arguably, when any two of these exist, it would be impossible for the third to co-exist. For if God is morally perfect, he would have created a world without evil. Yet evil exists, thus we are forced to conclude that either God is not morally perfect, or …

…The free will defence relies on the notion of free will, which is itself very questionable and even when given the benefit of the doubt, hardly manages to justify the existence of moral evils. The organic whole solution is an agnostic retreat and thus cannot be used as a theist defence. In conclusion, without resorting to the denial of God's divine properties, the problem of evil remains because the various defences have failed to stand.