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The 66 pages that link to Problem of evil, each with the reason it gives.

• Faith and rationalityRelated: It supplies a prominent evidential challenge to theistic belief.

• AcosmismRelated: Treating the finite world as dependent appearance raises questions about the status of suffering.

• Antony FlewRelated: This classic challenge to theism differs from the design evidence Flew later emphasized.

• Criticism of ChristianityRelated: It directly challenges Christian claims about God's nature and the world's suffering.

• Criticism of religionRelated: It questions whether traditional claims about God's power and goodness can fit the suffering found in the world.

• Existence of GodCompared with: It uses suffering as evidence against, or a challenge to, certain conceptions of God.

• God (monotheism)Related: It tests whether traditional claims about God’s power and goodness can coexist with suffering.

• Good and evilRelated: It makes the reality and meaning of evil a central theological question.

• Job (biblical figure)Related: Job gives this problem a narrative form centered on undeserved suffering.

• Christian deismRelated: A nonintervening creator offers one response to why suffering is not prevented.

• Conceptions of GodRelated: It tests whether particular divine attributes can be held together.

• Morality and religionCompared with: It asks whether religious explanations of morality can account for apparent injustice and suffering.

• Negative and positive atheismRelated: Its force depends on which concept of God positive atheism rejects.

• On the Consolation of PhilosophyRelated: Boethius asks why the wicked prosper and the good suffer under providential rule.

• PandeismRelated: Pandeism can recast suffering as part of a universe whose creator no longer intervenes.

• Relationship between science and religionRelated: Scientific accounts of natural suffering intensify questions about divine goodness and providence.