Theodicy, First Attempt

 

This is my first, incomplete attempt to defend and vindicate God while admitting that evil exists in the world.

 

The classical theodicy starts with the premise that God is all-good, omniscient, all-loving, all-powerful and Creator of the world, and yet evil exists. If one is a classical logician and metaphysician, one concludes that the above presented contradiction between omnibenevolent, all-powerful God existing alongside evil is either a falsehood or an existential contradiction that cannot and does not exist.

 

For a proponent of classical theodicy, either evil does not exist and God is omni-benevolent and omnipotent, or if evil exists, either God is not all-good, does not exist, or God is not all-powerful, so De cannot have originated evil, or cannot control it.

 

As a moderate or modified dialetheist, I believe that some true contradictions do exist.  I believe that Fate is all-powerful, all-powerless, all-knowing, and all-not-knowing, all-loving and all-hating. Fate is the universal One, and that is my monotheistic stance.

 

Underneath Fate’s umbrella, The Divine Couple and the Dark Couple battle it out forever, and this is my polytheistic, Manichean take on the good and bad divinities that rule over and divide up the world among themselves.

 

In that way, Fate is part all-powerful and all-loving and yet spiritual, physical biological, human and social evil exist at actual forces at work on earth.

 

This is part explanation and part mystery, part gibberish for the classical logician and part moderate. It is the best that I can do with what wits and words that I have to employ, and how complex, rich and incomprehensible the world actually is.

 

I would like to add that it now seems clear to me that liberty and free will have no substance, no essence, no meaning unless evil actually exists.

 

Any sentient being, in any level, must be able to sin and grow wickedness in the world if there is to be free choice in so deciding to act badly or humanely.

 

Evil must exist for God, love, free will, and divine rewards and punishments to make sense. God the Father and Mother are not all-powerful, all-knowing, and all-loving but they are mostly powerful, mostly knowing and very, very loving.

 

Evil makes no sense if people with free will do not exist, and good spiritually exists, and people can choose to be good.

 

In a weird but limited way, goodness spiritual or moral only can be good and meaningful and intelligible if evil exists, so in a small way, evil is good and makes goodness possible.

 

Still, we are to hate evil and do good, but we remain always a bit evil, and should sin a little (not too much or become addicted to sinning).

 

Alternatively, evildoers are ordered and expected by their overlords and over-ladies, the Evil Spirits, to hate good and do evil, but good in part they are and must practice good in order that so being and doing good makes their evil freely elected and meaningful for them, but they do not want to be good for too long or they might be lured into becoming good persons.

 

This is my first attempt at a theodicy.