Problem of Evil?

Have you ever thought about just how true truth is, or thought about truth in light of the also very real things that stand opposed to it? The opposite of a thing validates not only its own reality, but the reality of the thing it's opposing. Our basic ability to classify a thing-A and another thing non-A, means that we were given the ability to know truth and non-truth equally. The question I ask is this: Does truth have to , in itself, validate non-truth? Simply because a thing is true doesn't mean that it will be responsible for "creating" its own opposing non-truth, because it doesn't need it to exist-it stands independent of its opposite. But a thing described as a non-truth as it stands opposed to truth must have truth to validate itself. A non-truth can't reasonably exist without its opposite, truth. A non-truth, therefore, must always come after a truth, being born out of a perversion of truth. If God is the creator of existence and, as the beginning of that existence, is unable to tell a lie, then it is reasonable to assume that God and truth are the same, the things God reveals about Himself are true, and that truth is as eternal as God, because God is truth. You can pin this logic to any of the major ontological arguments and show that evil, pain, suffering, and sickness shouldn't be viewed as having always existed, eliminating the responsibility of God to have "created" these things.

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