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Granted that it's logically possible that an all-knowing, all-powerful, perfectly good God is the creator and sustainer of this world, with all its pain, suffering, injustice and unfairness, but is it likely? The answer is surely no, and this is really all the atheists are saying. It seems far more likely that if there is a creator and sustainer of the universe, then it's something else entirely and doesn't deserve the name 'God'.
That's just your ego speaking .When you would let go of the false illusory ego/mind , a whole different beyond -thought universe with open up for you to see .That within.You have no idea ...
That said :
Most of the suffering in this world ,including evil, is man made (most of man's suffering comes from man's ego ) ,thanks to to man's free will .As for the rest , well, we are just humans , too human as Nietzsche used to say , with limited knowledge ,so we can't pretend to be able to know all the answers to your above raised issues or beyond .We can't pretend to be able to know all there is to know .
Unless you can show me that you already have full knowledge or full data of the whole ultimate nature of reality ( knowledge of everything ) , i can't take your words seriously . Have you ?
Furthermore, That God is all -knowing , all -powerful ... perfectly good sustainer of this universe and beyond is not inconsistent with the fact that God granted man a form of free will, in the sense that God created all possibilities , potentialities, probabilities .....,including evil thus for man to choose from freely and suffer the consequences accordingly ...I don't know . Who does ?
Imperfect man can't be polished unless rubbed , so to speak .The road or journey to perfection is full of suffering and pain : Try to be a body builder without pain then , or just try to do your work, study, learning , ....without pain or suffering then .
As for atheists , they are no argument ,so to speak , since they have no real reason to reject their creator : this option is also given to man to choose thus .
"Atheism " is mostly a psychological disorder , an ego thing , a form of intellectual optical illusions , a result of a low level of consciousness / awareness , or a form of emotional immaturity.
Better still, atheism does not really exist ,since each one of us does worship, so to speak, , one or another kind of "god " , consciously or unconsciously , in the form of ego, money , power, lust , greed ...
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