God is not all good, but is all powerful.

I will address the parts of your argument and then explain mine. Disclaimer: Most of what I typed was made yesterday as an opening statement. It may be general, but it makes my point. And also, I am Muslim, not agnostic ;D It is unfair to say that the existence of evil is illogical if it is a manifestation of his creation. It is not fair to say God purposely created evil, but it is fair to say that events amid the genesis of life have led to that. As I will point out later, Go does know where evil comes from because it was manifested in an angel Lucifer who turned away from God and thus fell from heaven becoming Satan, the leader of all evil. Also, we humans who find it easy to contempt ourselves and commit evil deeds over good ones, even in good character, it is a manifestation of us in our characters to do bad things even if we are entirely good. It is nearly impossible to be entirely good without fault because our gracious creator has not made us perfect. Take for example Mother Teresa, she is renowned for her goodness and her strong faith in god promoting goodness throughout. She is a major humanitarian who in her lifetime has done over 500 missions of caretaking and restoring the poor. She is recognized as a saint for her actions and widely respected as one. However, her good deeds easily could have been evil, as she is known for leaving those on their deathbeds to die without medical care, yet on her deathbed took as much medical care as she could. That is presumably evil and came at the manifestation of something inherently good. Plus, as (the prophets) Adam and Eve (PBUH) have proven, even in our perfect states, we aren't entirely good. What God creates is good and pure, but evil can always come out of it in every possible way. The world cannot be rid of all evil and suffering if we, the pure creations made perfect and good, have ourselves turned evil. It is unfair to make such a claim either way and would make us hypocrites. Secondly, as will be proven later, God cannot be all powerful if evil exists in a large magnitude so much that it is uncontrollable. Thinking back to my example about Mother Teresa, if even good deeds can be inherently evil to an extent, then how can an all-powerful God dealing with so much evil in the world, suppress all evil if it exists in good actions too? The best thing to do is to basically rid the whole act. But even then that could be good or evil on God's part depending on your opinion. If that is so, then God cannot be all powerful. Facts about Mother Teresa: https://medium.com... My original opening argument: It is not my place to speak on God's intentions. Truly, it is neither of our places because our god, or what we choose to believe in is above our consciousness, not something we can conceive of human thought, or arguably so. I can't say I personally believe that God is all good, my religion does not stipulate that. However, I can believe that God is the judge of all goodness and the balance for all goodness, all of his actions and intentions are good because as we may assume, god does not produce evil. The purpose of God is to set everything to be good, with good things. Goodness is a conception of the god we worship. In my religion, we are taught God is in everything that is good. I, a believer and faithful follower of my religion, know that his intentions may not be all good, as good things don't always happen to bad people and vice versa. If it is so argued that God is all powerful, that must mean that he can command all aspects of good. We as humans cannot entirely measure goodness and evil, nor the balance between the two. It is too large a scale and similarly as our beliefs in god, we cannot imagine or assume the quantity of either existence due to how large and vast they are. It's like trying to count stars. You'll never finish counting. For example, let's say a kid was unexpectedly born to a mother that immensely loved her child, but was in poverty and could not sustain her child or herself. She has a rich distant relative who may have been friendly to her, the only one who supported her throughout her pregnancy and left her an inheritance of wealth. However, they committed very cruel and murderous crimes in their lifetime, and the newborn mother did not know. A victim of those crimes kills the distant relative, and automatically the mom gets her inheritance and can support herself and the baby. Whether her death was truly an act of evil or good with an intention to God of his intentions can really only be measured by opinion. The mother may find it evil and be distrusting of god to allow the murderer to take that relative away from her as her only support, but good that she now has the money to support her and her child. Say the mom finds out about those murderous crimes, her opinion can easily change the way she looks at the killer. She can easily say that it was good of God to wipe the relative from the earth (karma), and in turn, shares parts of her inheritance with the victim and their family who never got justice. My point in that long-winded and possibly confusing example is, God, being all good is impossible to measure entirely, however, all of God's actions do ultimately end up with measuring to good. So in a sense, God's intentions in itself are always good. Also, in terms of God, the creator of everything including logic, logic would tell me that if God is the symbol of goodness, and the only truly good entity into existence, then he is purely good. Anyone who is purely perfect and seeks justice in finding the good of things is by definition purely good. Psalms 18:30 stipulates that "As for God, his way is perfect: The LORD's word is flawless; he shields all who take refuge in him.", thus meaning if he is perfect, he is purely good. Simple. All of God's actions at the end of the day, always aligns with goodness. Lastly, pertaining to your quote and the logic presented above, the idea that evil still exists, would mean that God can't entirely be all powerful. If God couldn't prevent Eve from taking the forbidden fruit, then he is not all-powerful. If he couldn't prevent Lucifer from becoming Satan, he is not all-powerful. If evil exists as its separate entity and infected some of his institutions such as Puritanism, and Scientology, god is not all powerful. If c=he cannot prevent church shootings, he is not all-powerful. If ISIS exists as an Islamic organization, defending the name of Islam and Allah (SWT), while still killing people and committing heinous crimes in his name and honour, then god is not all powerful. Contrary to my beliefs, if evil still exists and to full power in some cases, then by those facts, god is not all-powerful. Simple. God can't be all-powerful if he cannot prevent evil from infecting the roots of his benevolent institutions relentlessly. God is all-good, and not all-powerful. Simple. Sorry for it being so long.