Consider the following:
"God," he [Epicurus] says, "either wants to eliminate bad things and cannot,
or can but does not want to,
or neither wishes to nor can,
or both wants to and can.
If he wants to and cannot, then he is weak and this does not apply to god.
If he can but does not want to, then he is spiteful which is equally foreign to
god's nature.
If he neither wants to nor can, he is both weak and spiteful, and so not a god.
If he wants to and can, which is the only thing fitting for a god, where then
do bad things come from? Or why does he not eliminate them?"
Lactantius, On the Anger of God, 13.19
When considering the above, what would be the refutation in order to support an
all-loving deity, or any deity that would fit the deity constructed in the
Abrahamic religions?
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