Our covenant morality for humanity- the presumption of humanism- requires that we and any other rational being treat humans humanely. So, I hereby indict God for all the evils and if He is Yahweh or Allah for his won evils in particular. To maintain that His ways are above ours, so that He has His reasons for permitting evil mocks reason and -humanity! We don't need to be omniscient to fathom what my four year old grand nephew can see! That putative argument is just the one from ignorance and - then to maintain that faith can overcome the problem is again that argument [ See the thread rationalism or to my latest post to the thread the presumptions of that more abundant life [ the presumption of naturalism].
Dr. Williiam Rowe is ever developing the evidential argument from evil.
The problem of Heaven reveals that certain philosophers of religion notwithstanding, the logical argument of evil runs ever so strongly.
This problem reveals the inconsistency of theism : it projects Heaven as paradise where one has free will but cannot abuse it, but states otherwise for people in the here and now.
What required Him to be inconsistent? Why is it that It is He who matters rather than we?
Evil is the presence of great pain!
Next time I'll adumbrate this problem. Theodicy is a series of rationalizations to exonerate Him from His insouciance to animal suffering [ Yes, we included.]. Good will and blessings to all!
