There is no logical paradox or contradiction in the Christian conception of God.

Thus far your arguments have depended upon an incomplete version of the Christian conception of God and displays a lack of knowledge of scripture. The very wording of the so-called paradoxes you present reveal them to be incomplete: they refer to omnipotence, omniscience, good, evil yet do not even acknowledge God as a being with a character, personality and independent agency and so neither you nor these so-called paradoxes bother to explore alternative explanations. Now that isn't entirely a flaw in the paradoxes themselves since many of them were invented in an attempt refute the existence of A God rather than refuting the existence of a specific conception of God... this debate, however, is about a specific conception of God, the Christian conception of God, and whether or not that conception of God is inconsistent or logically paradoxical. I have and will continue to demonstrate that any apparent paradox is a misunderstanding that results from an incomplete representation of the subject. I'll respond in order of the topics that seem to be in dispute. FREE WILL You claim that "there isn't any actual scriptural support for the idea [of Free Will] and it was largely invented whole-cloth by Augustine". That is false and demonstrates again that you lack a complete grasp of the subject. Deuteronomy 30:19-20 "I call heaven and earth to witness against you today, that I have set before you life and death, blessing and curse. Therefore choose life, that you and your offspring may live, loving the LORD your God, obeying his voice and holding fast to him, for he is your life and length of days, that you may dwell in the land that the LORD swore to your fathers, to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob, to give them." This is a clear example of humans being presented with a choice, something not possible for a being without free will, and this section is not alone in its obvious implication of free will. The exact phrase "free will" is not mentioned but many parts of scripture quite explicitly support the doctrine that humans have choices and decisions to make. God CAN violate free will but He DOESN'T. God is omnipotent, yes, and omniscient but also has personality, motives and free will of His own. You touched on a 'Greater Good'... well indeed there is one. God wishes to see humanity reconciled to Him and raised to eternal life and salvation in a perfect world the bliss of which will outweigh the harshest of human sufferings. In this world humanity reigns but this world and our time in it are temporary and God is concerned with the permanent. He permits humanity the self-determination it insists upon and offers a way back to those who choose Him again. It is what happens to us on the other side of death that God is chiefly interested in. In your analogy about a rape you again demonstrate incomplete knowledge of scripture by suggesting that God should "respect the rapist's choice while still preventing the innocent from being harmed". You do not realize that according to Christian doctrine there ARE NO innocents. That we all have sinned and that one sin is not better or worse than another. It is erroneous to view sins in the same way that one would view crimes in a human society. A sin is an act of separation from God and there are not degrees of that separation. The willful sin of every human has brought them to live in a world dominated by humanity's rather than God's will. The Bible very clearly draws a line between the world that humans dominate and the world that God is preparing for those who choose it. Romans 3:23 "for all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God" Matthew 22:21 "... Therefore render to Caesar the things that are Caesar's, and to God the things that are God's." James 1:12-13 "Blessed is the man who remains steadfast under trial, for when he has stood the test he will receive the crown of life, which God has promised to those who love him. Let no one say when he is tempted, "I am being tempted by God," for God cannot be tempted with evil, and he himself tempts no one." God DID help, he offered a way out of death. The proposition that God should have violated our free will so that we could all live in eternal bliss is a childish abdication of personal responsibility. Free will ENABLED us to fall it did not cause us to do so and it also ENABLES us to be reconciled to God but does not force us to be. "Couldn't you create a better world, still with free will but with considerably less evil? Does heaven have free will?" All evil is caused by humanity's sin. Both direct action in violation of His will and a day-to-day life of denying His existence and power led to the same non-interference. Those who desire His interference in their fate and are willing to be reconciled to Him receive as much. This is one role of prayer. James 1:6-8 "But let him ask in faith, with no doubting, for the one who doubts is like a wave of the sea that is driven and tossed by the wind. For that person must not suppose that he will receive anything from the Lord; he is a double-minded man, unstable in all his ways." NATURAL EVIL "A good number of terrible things happen without any free will. A quarter million people were killed during the Boxing Day Tsunami." Why was that 'evil' and not simply tragic? It isn't logical to attach a moral value judgement to an event of the natural environment with disastrous consequences. Even so free will still applies: if God interfered in the natural environment in such a way that we would not ever be harmed by it our actions would be very different. God was not 'prevented' (in the sense of being unable) he did not because of humanity's dominion over this world. That means we get all the apparent perks of running our own show but humanity was also warned that do so would mean death. Genesis 2:17 "But of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil you shall not eat, for in the day that you eat of it you shall surely die." JUSTICE "It is justice to punish somebody else for the crimes of another? Is it justice to fault the descendants of some original sinners, who themselves have done nothing wrong." Re Romans 3:23. We are not faulted for the acts of our ancestors whether you interpret Genesis literally or not we are faulted for our own sins against God. God is not simply one thing or another. Being just, loving, merciful and truthful He took the price of our defiance onto Himself by enduring hell in our place. OMNIPOTENCE To amend the paradox to "If God the Father created the rock so that God the Father couldn't lift it" makes the question itself flawed. God the Father is outside of our universe, our time, our space and our laws. The principles of logic and physics upon which this universe is dependent do not confine God the Father... the only time when He has been confined by our universe's laws of logic was when He was Jesus Christ. To even ask the question is flawed logic and demonstrates a lack of knowledge of the subject. The solution to the paradox is that its premises, based in human rationality, do not apply to God. --- Free Will & Omnipotence The fact that someone else knows the result of your actions doesn't change whether or not you had a choice. Have you never known someone well enough that you could predict their actions in a given situation accurately? Having knowledge of what someone will do DOES NOT mean that they have no choice but to do it. Moreover knowing that someone will make mistakes does not obligate a good being to stop them in an act of selfish domination... it obligates a good being to warn them. Evil & Omnipotence God DOES NOT do evil. To assume that means He is incapable of doing evil is illogical and refuted in the temptation of Jesus. Satan would not bother to tempt a being who was incapable of falling into evil. It is entirely consistent for a being to be technically capable of evil but not be evil.