God is not benevolent

In Theism, God is an all-powerful, knowing and good deity. Within the human condition, which God dictates, evil is present and prevalent. The existence of evil is contradictory to God’s benevolence, so God cannot be benevolent. This argument takes from 'modus tollens,' a logical proof that implies where a benevolent God exists, evil cannot. Because evil exists in the world, God is not benevolent and cannot exist.^[1] The presence of evil makes the existence of an all-good God improbable, given that the principles of good and evil are diametrically opposed. This contradiction between the presence of evil and the presence of an all-good God renders the existence of a benevolent God impossible.^[2] An oppositional argument comes from Theism, which argues that evil can exist in the presence of God because God allows evil in carrying out the greater good or lesser evil. In response to the Theist approach, one can introduce a line of inductive reasoning. An all-powerful God can prevent natural evils in their entirety. Based on the evidence that evil exists, God either cannot prevent evil or cannot perform good without sacrifice. As such, the probability of the existence all-good God is unlikely. ^{[3] [4]}