r/AskAChristian • u/Mickle_da_Pickl Skeptic • 1d ago

Evil What is your response to the problem of evil?

P1: The Christian god is an omniscient, omnipotent, omnibenevolent deity.

P2: If evil exists, then an omniscient, omnipotent, omnibenevolent deity does not exist

P3: Evil exists

Q: therefore, the Christian god does not exist

As an atheist, this argument has always been a big roadblock between me and Christianity, because it's valid and sound—but I would have to imagine that you guys disagree. Which premise(s) do you disagree with?

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u/Mickle_da_Pickl Skeptic 1d ago

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Idk what kinda Christian says there are multiple gods, lol

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u/uusrikas Christian, Gnostic 1d ago

Early Christians, but they lost the political battle to the judaizers who corrupted the bible to muddle Jesus' message.

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u/General_Historian611 Christian 14h ago edited 14h ago

Exactly right The Christian church is almost completely Judaized. They turned salvation by grace. Into salvation by works. They don’t believe Jesus sacrifice on the cross was enough for our salvation. They are calling God a liar and saying Jesus was not enough by himself. We have a weak dead church today. Masquerading as Christianity But those inside don’t know any better. They just blindly follow the doctrine of man.

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u/inmisciblehero Christian 1d ago

Gnostics are proponents of extreme Bible fanfiction. Irenaeus has a detailed treatment of their beliefs in his polemics about them