The problem of evil and the concept of God are irreconcilable

It should be interesting and fun! Let's begin. Of course, as the instigator, and the one who has made the positive claim, my opponent has the full burden of proof. My first contention is as such: In order for my opponent to win this debate, he has to be able to prove that God doesn't have a good reason for allowing diseases, tornadoes, etc. Second, I would say that sticking to gratuitous evil does not eliminate the free will argument. It is because of Adam's free will choice that physical evil entered the world: 16 Unto the woman he said , I will greatly multiply thy sorrow and thy conception; in sorrow thou shalt bring forth children; and thy desire shall be to thy husband, and he shall rule over thee. 17 And unto Adam he said , Because thou hast hearkened unto the voice of thy wife, and hast eaten of the tree, of which I commanded thee , saying , Thou shalt not eat of it: cursed is the ground for thy sake; in sorrow shalt thou eat of it all the days of thy life; 18 Thorns also and thistles shall it bring forth to thee; and thou shalt eat the herb of the field; 19 In the sweat of thy face shalt thou eat bread, till thou return unto the ground; for out of it wast thou taken : for dust thou art, and unto dust shalt thou return . 20 And Adam called his wife's name Eve; because she was the mother of all living. Omnibenevolence: Since my opponent has not offered a definition of omnibenevolence, I would be happy to do so now: "As we think about the goodness of God, we must be careful not to impose on him our inadequate understandings of what goodness is. In his book The Problem of Pain, C. S. Lewis writes: By the goodness of God we mean nowadays almost exclusively his lovingness; and in this we may be right. And by love, in this context, most of us mean kindness. . . . What would really satisfy us would be a God who said of anything we happened to like doing, "What does it matter so long as they are contented? " We want, in fact, not so much a Father in heaven as a grandfather in heaven, a senile benevolence who, as they say, "liked to see young people enjoying themselves" and whose plan for the universe was simply that it might be truly said at the end of each day, "a good time was had by all. " Furthermore, most theists do not believe that God created us merely for happiness in this life but also, and most importantly, for eternal happiness with him in the next. So his omnibenevolence should be judged neither by our limited human standards of goodness nor by what happens in this world alone. Putting these things together, we can recognize that an omnipotent, omniscient, and omnibenevolent creator might have good reasons for tolerating abuses of human free will that lead to evil and suffering. We may not know what all his reasons are, but we sense the value of freedom, including the value of being able to choose good freely rather than by compulsion. We can see how his power and knowledge can bring good out of evil in ways that we, with our limits, aren"t able to comprehend. But in faith we can say along with St. Paul, "We know that in everything God works for good with those who love him. " (Rom. 8:28). "[1] Sources: 1. . http://www.catholic.com...