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If God listened to the prayers of men, all men would quickly have perished: for they are forever praying for evil against one another.
- Evil
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- Peace Of Mind
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- Fear Of Death
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- Philosophy
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- Study
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- Being Thankful
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- Justice
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- Evil
“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
Either God wants to abolish evil, and cannot; or he can and does not want to. If he wants to, but cannot, he is impotent. If he can, but does not want to, he is wicked. If, as they say, God can abolish evil, and God really wants to do it, why is there evil in the world?
249 quotes from Epicurus: 'Do not spoil what you have by desiring what you have not; remember that what you now have was once among the things you only hoped for.', 'Is God willing to prevent evil, but not able?
3 Αυγ 2023 · 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? This attribution occurs in chapter 13 (Ioan. Graphei, 1532, p. 494) of the Christian church father's Lactantius's De Ira Dei (c. 318): "God," he [Epicurus] says, "either wants to eliminate bad things and cannot,
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“Epicurus's old questions are still unanswered: Is he (God) willing to prevent evil, but not able? then he is impotent. Is he able, but not willing? then he is malevolent. Is he both able and willing? then whence evil?” ― David Hume