Ramadan, what is your response to this riddle?

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Is God willing to prevent evil, but not able?

Then he is not omnipotent.

Is he able, but not willing?

Then he is malevolent.

Is he both able and willing?

Then whence cometh evil?

Is he neither able nor willing?

Then why call him God?

~Epicurus
 
Not preventing evil is not necessarily malevolence. Malevolence is the desire to do evil to others. God is perhaps the greatest mystery, and we are likely not meant to understand in life. One suggestion may be that if there were only good and no evil, there would be no temptation, no struggle or need for resolve. Without dichotomy, how will God know whose team we are on?
 
It's simple. Evil is a subjective issue. What I see as evil might be good in your view, and vise versa.

To give a quick example, a child taking a vaccine shot thinks the doctor and the nurse and the needle are all evil, but you and I and the doctor and the nurse all know it's not.
 
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