is the idea that an omnipotent God knows in advance that evil will occur, and is ultimately responsible for its existence. If all of Gods beliefs are assumed to be true, then someone who has been given a decision to make does not have a decision to make because there is only one option that will follow God's belief. Furthermore, as God knows what will happen before it happens and he or she created the human to make those specific decisions, then all actions are predetermined and designed by God. The problems concerning the free will argument each challenge the belief that God is all-good, as he or she would not initiate evil to occur or allow it to exist otherwise.
             In "Evil and Omnipotence" J.L. Mackie attacks the idea that God exists by showing the weaknesses of possible solutions of the theologians to the problem of evil. His most influential arguments, which he discusses when referring to the argument of free will, involve the Paradox of Omnipotence and the relationship between the omnipotence and benevolence of God. One possible solution to the problem of evil is that good cannot exist without evil or that is a necessary counterpart to good. There are two possible problems with this solution as it challenges both the omnipotence and goodness of God. If good cannot exist without evil then is supposed that God could not create good without evil, and therefore does not have omnipotence, or in the least has a limit upon his or her omnipotence. The idea that omnipotence pertains
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